Melody is an American animated short produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols, first released on May 28, 1953. It was conceived as the opening entry in Adventures in Music, a planned series of cartoons teaching the principles of music. In the film, Professor Owl instructs a class of birds on how to find melody in the world around them, demonstrating how a tune is put together on a small piano before sending the class out to listen for the melodic sounds of nature. Only one other entry in the series was made, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
