A Symposium on Popular Songs is a special cartoon featurette made by the Walt Disney Company in 1962. It features songs written by the Sherman Brothers with music arrangements by Tutti Camarata. The Shermans also co-wrote the screenplay but are not credited for this. Host Ludwig Von Drake invites his audience into his mansion where he tells all about popular music through the years, introducing several songs illustrated with stop-motion photography. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was telecast in December 1962 as an episode of The Wonderful World of Color, Disney's NBC Sunday evening anthology series. It was released on DVD in 2005 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures set Disney Rarities.
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