![]() ![]() "Humphrey Hop" was first heard in the CinemaScope cartoon In the Bag directed by Jack Hannah. "© Walt Disney Productions / World Rights Reserved" stamp plus handwritten file number "755-948" and "George Bruns" are on the back. He retired in 1975 and was named a Disney Legend in 2001. He composed "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and music for The Absent-Minded Professor, 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Love Bug, and others. His musical contribution to Disney animated and live-action films and television was profound. Bruns was personally hired by Walt Disney two years before this photograph was taken to score the studio's 1959 animated feature Sleeping Beauty. To the right of the sheet music on the stand is a "Spectrotone Chart," an essential tool in orchestration. This is an original photograph produced by Disney of the studio's great composer and arranger George Bruns at the piano in his Disney Studio office playing "Humphrey Hop," the theme song for the 1956 Humphrey the Bear cartoon In the Bag. Photograph on single-weight paper, 8" x 10" ![]()
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