Lisa Scoggin

Music, Animation, and Education

Music in Animation: Duck Amuck (1953)

Note that I do not own the copyright on Duck Amuck; this is for personal/educational use only.

Resources: Books & Articles

Barrier, Michael.  Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age.  Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.  (See especially pp. 175-187.)

Barrier, Michael (Mike). “An Interview with Carl Stalling.” In The Cartoon Music Book, ed. Daniel Goldmark and Yuvel Taylor. Chicago: A Capella Books, 2002, 37-58.

Beck, Jerry (ed.) The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2010.

Friedwald, Will. “Sublime Perversity: The Music of Carl Stalling.” In The Cartoon Music Book, ed. Daniel Goldmark and Yuvel Taylor. Chicago: A Capella Books, 2002, 137-140.

Goldmark, Daniel. Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. (See especially chapter 1.)

Jones, Chuck. Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist. New York: Farrar Straus Geroux, 1989.

Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New York: Penguin Books, 1980, 1987. (See especially pp. 262-263.)

Sandler, Kevin S. (ed.) Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Thompson, Richard. “Duck Amuck.” Film Comment 11, no. 1 (Special Issue: The Hollywood Cartoon) (Jan-Feb 1975), 39-43.

Whitehead, Kevin. “Carl Stalling, Improviser & Bill Lava, Acme Minimalist.” In The Cartoon Music Book, ed. Daniel Goldmark and Yuvel Taylor. Chicago: A Capella Books, 2002, 141-150.

Resources: Links

Duck Amuck (full cartoon)

Ross Bolinger on Duck Amuck

Carl Stalling and Humor in Cartoons