Panda Andy and Woodpecker Woody put on a spectacular piano performance for the farm animals, playing Chopin's "Polonaise."
This film is an episode from the "Musical Miniatures" series distributed by Universal Pictures, featuring a crossover between Andy, the protagonist of the "Andy Panda" animated short series—also distributed by Universal and produced by Walter Lantz—and Woody Woodpecker, one of the main characters from the "Cartunes" series.
This film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1946. Among the contenders that same year were two other shorts featuring famous characters performing piano pieces: MGM's "Cat Concerto" from the "Tom and Jerry" series and Warner Bros.' "Rhapsody Rabbit" from the "Merrie Melodies" series. Both films, due to their similar plots, gags, and identical musical selection (Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"), became entangled in a still-unresolved plagiarism controversy.
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