Loony Tunes Cartoons

The other day when my brain couldn't think anymore (oh wait, that was today too!) I took a break to watch tv and my roomate was watching the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show (nothing like watching mindless cartoons, but are they that mindless?) I didn't realize how much classical music and good sound effects are in those cartoons. This might be a great music and/or drama lesson! You could have students pick out the different instruments used or for drama make connections between the music and how the characters are moving (ie: when a character is bouncing, what does the music sound like). You could also show different genres that way. It even suggested using these cartoons in our ART text.

In connecting this with my previous blog, you could even have students film thier own video and use the sound effects from these cartoons to connect with their actions.

Here are a few links to some of the cartoons. The website they came from is great for looking at different video clips from tv shows, movies etc. I'm not sure if there's an option to download them? or what the legality issues are around the clips, but these will at least gives you and idea of what I'm talking about and it probably wouldn't be hard to get a hold of the cartoons.

http://www.videodouble.com/video/bugs-bunny---case-of-the-missing-hare-24952/

http://www.videodouble.com/video/transylvania-6-5000-760481/

http://www.videodouble.com/video/bad-ol-puddy-tat-1032069/



Here's one to throw in there to see if they notice a difference in the music (although you may need to edit out the rednek part and the ending message)

http://www.videodouble.com/video/bugs-bunny---cotton-eye-joe-24953/