Summer entertainment: Norton Museum ‘Disney’ show marries music to visuals
Disney and music. From the start they’ve been inseparable. Walt Disney was new to the entertainment business in 1927, when he saw The Jazz Singer, the first full-length movie with a synchronized sound track. It was a Eureka moment. He dashed back to the studio, ditched two silent Mickey Mouse cartoons in the pipeline and added synchronized sound to the in-progress Steamboat Willie, in which the mouse debuted in 1928. With that decision, Disney started a revolution of his own, marrying sound to visuals so that it defined character and drove plots in ways that had never been done before on film. “Disney: The Music Behind the Magic, 1928-Today,”…
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