@chanballer Chi mi freno in tal momento? (uncredited) aka "Sextet" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" "Shortnin' Bread" "Largo al factotum" (uncredited) From "The Barber of Seville" Music by Gioachino Rossini Sung by Nelson Eddy "Tristan und Isolde" Music by Richard Wagner "Mefistofele" Music by Arrigo Boito "Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen" (uncredited) Music by Friedrich von Flotow "Ride of the Valkyries" (uncredited) Music by Richard Wagner
I love Nelson Eddy! Read about his life! Its so interesting, loving a woman already married and dying of a broken heart shortly after she passed away! I saw this cartoon when i was very little and I never forgot it, I was so happy when I found it on youtube only 4 years ago!
@sanityismadness Mephistopheles' terrifying aria from Mephistophele. That's the only thing I was able to find on it. And I don't know where to find it. If you have better luck finding it, please message me! :) that one is probably my favorite song from the 4 that were performed with Willie on stage.
@ChannelBluesy No, at the time, depiction of heaven was normal no matter your preference in religion. It was accepted as a cultural norm. Nowadays, heaven is synonymous with spirituality and is more or less accepted.
Well that's no suprise of willy getting killed. I mean if someone actually discovered a singing whale, in real life. they wouldn't just let it sing. they would kill it and disect it.
GREAT introduction to OPERA. even had an "opera ending" with Willie "erschlagen"
also check out the Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd classics "What's Opera. Doc?" for the music of Richard Wagner and "Rabbit of Seville" for the music of Gioachino Rossini.
When I first saw this cartoon, I was really impressed by the beautiful singing voices. However, it's sad that Willie had to die at the hands of Tetti-Tatti.
I'm for sure NO expert on either Gounod's Faust (French) or Boito's Mefistofele (Italian) BUT checking some YouTube posts of arias from each, it sounds like an altered lead in to Boito's "ecco il mondo" from Mefistofele.
BUT it could also be an altered version of the lead in to "Le veau d'or" from Faust.
they DID take some liberties with the wording of Willie's arias.
We;ere living in a world where beauty is dying. When I go to an opera, I am surrounded by people who are over sixty. . .almost no young people. As an English teacher, I stood by as my students were forced every day to study for tests (no reading of classics, no enjoyment of art or music allowed). Music and art programs are being cut because schools and the general population don't care. But unlike Willie, there is no heaven. . .only the blandness of corporations and mass culture.
Wow... I vagely remember seing bits of this cartoon in a disney montage that was on TV about 25 years ago. But that version ended with him singing at the met and lapping up the applause.... only after watching this now, 25 years later have I found out he dies in the full version. :-(
I thought there was a glimmer of hope for willie when we see him jumping out of the water, I only felt worse when we find out he's dead. But seeing him singing in heaven made me feel a little better.
@bige81892 i had the same thing when he kept jumping i was like "come on willie! get that harpoon outta ya! your stronger than that dumb tetti tatti!!" but when it all became silent i was like "im gona kill u tetti -_-"
It always brings me to tears when willy dies, but I guess the narrator is right us people are not just ready, or used to miracles. I mean if they acually did find a singing whale, or any other miracules creature, they would probably end up, being disected, or worse.
I saw this when I was very little, and I remembered the death scene being really drawn out... I guess that's just the imprint it left on a small child's mind. Still a great piece of animation though.
When I was 8 years old I saw this movie about 10 times in the ship's movie theatre while sailing from Australia to America. This part always made me very, very sad, and I would hope each time that this time Tetti Tatti would realize that it was the whale singing. Great to see this again after so long.
I miss this animation. After years of watching this I still pick up on new things like picking up on emotions I never noticed before.
Example for this time: as he was jumping after being harpooned and trying to get as far away from the boat as possible, even to the degree of breaking part of the boat. How he died had him with no face, just looking like a common whale getting killed, as opposed to his more animated self when he sings -End pretentious film studenty comment.- xD
Thank you so sooooo much for posting this! I am in my 20s no, and I used to be obsessed with this cartoon when I was a little child. I would draw whales dressed up in a demon's costume and my kindergarden teachers thought I was weird, hehehehe. Nelson Eddy had a great voice! And the heaven scene is so touching.
After all these years i have finally found this cartoon. I watched it when I was, I don't know maybe 7 or 8 years old. It still saddens me to watch Willie dying.
I always cry at the very ending, even after all those years, willie is so charismatic, happy, so exempt of any kind of evil or meanness... He didn't deserve to die =/
i hated this story there is no such thing as hevean or god. willie is just dead cuz of stupid gay tetti tatti! if there was a hell he should go straight to the pit of it!!!!!!
@emilybradshaw06 There is such thing as Heaven and God. but the rest I do believe except the first part. Tetti Tatti, i seriously wanted to kill him myself when i was younger... ok i still do but ill admit it when i was younger i didnt know what was going on xD till now O.o
I would have totally shit myself when he bowed. Man, I had'nt seen this cartoon since I was little. I always had loved it and I always will. Sad though.
Horrible as it is to say it, it actually makes sense that Willie was killed at the end: after all, what is Willie but an opera singer, and what are operas but wonderful stories with a sad end?
wow I watched this when i was just a little kid. funny when you look back at stuff like that, certain things about yourself start to make sense. Now I know why I have always had a strong mistrust of impressarios!
if i recall corectly it was my first cartoon i ever saw when i was a lil kid and im still watching it cuz i like the music of it.... what is kinda odd cuz ima streetdancer ..i think there is just something magical on this cartoon and music..... Go Willie !!!
I've had nightmares about this cartoon... I saw it as a kid but I never knew what it was called! I cried for three days after I saw it though.... D: NOOOO!!!!!
I think this is the most interesting, heartfelt, and beautiful cartoon I have ever watched. I just stumbled upon this while searching for cartoons, And let me tell you, this is the video I fell in love. As a teen now, I never see this on TV because Hannah Montana, JBros are dominating disney, which is full of crap cause their shows are humorless and mediocre at best.
I wish walt disney never died so he could produce more of this classic. Unlike now, shows are very mediocre.
Disney made animation into art. I wonder how self absorbed fools like the creator of Family Guy can sleep at night considering all the trash he speaks of Disney when it was Disney who truly made animation what it is today. Seth can make people blush with trash humor, but the masters of animation can bring people to tears when they employ their skills.
Thank you so much for posting this. It was one of my absolute favourite cartoons when I was little, and even all these years later I still love it. It's sad, but so beautifully animated and the music is outstanding.
that's what made Bugs Bunny so great in the 50's and 60's. Bunny Of Seville? come on that is classic stuff. before PC sucked the life out of kids shows
I remember the first time I saw this, as a kid. I tried to hold in the tears, but it was the glistening pearly gates at the end that finally slammed it home to me that he was dead, so I blubbed away.
@CyndellWarrior dont be too harsh because he didn't understand.... these are words that can be applied to any situtation. thnk about it we arnt too harsh on people from dark ages because they didn't understand, just like in 1000 years now people will look back on how we didnt understand. lets hope they aren't too harsh on us.
@CyndellWarrior they don't leave them to rot they would be punished by law. they kill 100's of whales a year supposedly for research but they butcher and package the whales at sea then sell them at market and to school systems. the japanese representatives even say that nobody has the right to tell them what they should and shouldn't eat... they refer to it as "food culture". They also like dolphin meat. i tried posting a link with more info but it didn't work...
try watching "Whale Wars" I've seen the episode where the Ship chasing Japanese whalers find a Ship that was dumping Skinned and dead whale carcasses into the ocean, they were also missing their tail fins, so maybe they use that for the food; point is, this show is filmed in real time, inother words it's happened this year, just earlier this year, so you can trust me when I say there's whalers out there dumping Whale Carcasses in the ocean left to rot
@CyndellWarrior on Whale Wars they show the meat being processed and also at market. i think i'm missing some episodes as i can only afford netflix. in the documentary The Cove they show the massive slaughtering of dolphins which they process and sell (sometimes marketed as whale meat) to the public. they also put dolphin meat in the school system (as well as whale) which is bad because the last time they did that the children died of mercury poisoning. idc what way you look at it it's still bs.
I'll try looking for where you read this, i didn't know about the Dolphin Meat, that's gross!! I've always been told Dolphin meat was bad for you and bad as a Food Culture source because of their lifestyle and their Diet. that's evil in of itself. Still though, Whale Wars showed a Japanese ship dumping Whale bodies. so I'm not exaggerating when I say this, or making it up.
@CyndellWarrior the only episodes of whale wars i've seen don't show that so i wouldn't know... but the examples i've mentioned come from the first two seasons... whale wars says that the japanese set a quota for as many as 50 humpbacks a year to be killed... and as far as i and the u.s. are concerned, that species is endangered. i'm pretty sure you're not supposed to kill endangered animals but w/e i guess the whalers have their own rules and opinions on that
yeah, it's called working the paper; on paper they're "Collecting tissue Samples" and paper is all their government really cares about, and as long as the US animal Protection agencies are shown the "Paper" the japanese file, without any hint of fraud or anything else shady apart from the fact they're still whaling, unfortunately they're rules say they can't touch the japanese for what they're doing
and it's cuz of the most evil word in the english Language "evidence"
Our state officials always say they need "Evidence" to prove an unlawful, a TRULY unlawful act is being commited, and like in comic books they don't go by Vigilante statements so the guys chasing the whalers in Whale wars go unheard DX || and because "On Paper" we're basically being told the Japanese aren't whaling (yeah right) our Offices won't do anything XP
@CyndellWarrior i'm really not surprised by human stupidity... everybody thinks that they are entitled to everything so they end up just fucking it up for everybody including themselves... i bet the japanese would eat the whales into extinction and then totally deny it/justify it in some ridiculous manner... i just hate people. there seems to be no reason why anybody should care about other people when there is nothing good about anybody. selfish assholes.
what's the song @ 2:50 that he played the devil? which act in the aria?
bunnyz324 3 days ago
Can someone name all the songs he's singing? Please?
chanballer 1 week ago
ferboamorte 1 week ago
One of the most powerful things that Disney has ever done.
ChoukoCha 1 week ago
rhis is kinda simbolic isnt it
AlejandroTecman 2 weeks ago
I love Nelson Eddy! Read about his life! Its so interesting, loving a woman already married and dying of a broken heart shortly after she passed away! I saw this cartoon when i was very little and I never forgot it, I was so happy when I found it on youtube only 4 years ago!
AngelKittenVicki 2 weeks ago
The lesson here boys and girls?
It's okay to murder wonderful creatures that defy logical explanation because when they die their souls will end up in heaven.
whatbefalls13 2 weeks ago
WHY DOES THIS STILL TERRIFY ME TO MY CORE.
irkenequine 2 weeks ago
Thumbs up if you remember this from your early childhood (along with the story about Ferdinand the Bull and Lambert the sheepish lion)
rossyxan 3 weeks ago 5
What is 1:53 a quote from specifically? I gather Tristan und Isolde but where exactly?
rossyxan 3 weeks ago
So sad :(
thrasherwartooth 4 weeks ago
in the end what is the name of that song (4:44)
nNet0 1 month ago
@nNet0 'Mag der Himmel euch vergeben' from the opera "Martha" (1847) by Friedrich von Flotow
rossyxan 3 weeks ago
@rossyxan oh ty so mutch =D
nNet0 3 weeks ago
God this cartoon destroyed me as a kid. Such a sad/happy ending. :'(
melodymorano 1 month ago
Heh, pretty nice visual pun with the people covering their heads under the seagulls.
Darkman9000 1 month ago
Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?
SuperSenshi 1 month ago 11
@SuperSenshi HAH! I saw what you did there ;)
thrasherwartooth 4 weeks ago
I cried.
PhantomFluttershy 1 month ago
remember when Disney actually gave a crap? yeah, those were nice times.
ThePhantom135 1 month ago 6
Doug Walker reminded me of this one. Disney has some deep forgotten roots in my past.
jarshall2 1 month ago 3
Going to resurrect the question: anybody know what he's singing as Mephistopheles? Even as a child, that bass thrilled me to the core.
sanityismadness 1 month ago 2
@sanityismadness
I think it's from Mefistofele, but i'm not sure.
leon14320 1 month ago
@leon14320
more or less. The opera is Faustus.
Linranis 1 month ago
@Linranis Ah, thank you.
leon14320 1 month ago
@sanityismadness Mephistopheles' terrifying aria from Mephistophele. That's the only thing I was able to find on it. And I don't know where to find it. If you have better luck finding it, please message me! :) that one is probably my favorite song from the 4 that were performed with Willie on stage.
TheYaoiButterfly 1 month ago
@sanityismadness He said "Je suis Mephisto [...] (sorry, I didn't understand it) Je veux la vie" which means "I'm Mephisto [...] I want (your) life"
icovada 1 month ago
@sanityismadness
je suis mephisto
roi d'enfer
je veux ta vie
(I am mephisto king of hell
I want your life)
blueberrette 2 weeks ago
or "roi de l'enfer"maybe? I'm not sure...
blueberrette 2 weeks ago
@blueberrette more like "roi des Enfers" ;-)
rumi82 2 weeks ago
Thumbs up if Doug Walker sent you here. ;)
smartboyathome 1 month ago 102
@smartboyathome 56 people were sent here by Doug Walker
2 people were not
GregTheLion 1 month ago
is it me or does this short have some sort of spiritual underlying message? and not because the whale went to heaven at the end
ChannelBluesy 1 month ago
@ChannelBluesy No, at the time, depiction of heaven was normal no matter your preference in religion. It was accepted as a cultural norm. Nowadays, heaven is synonymous with spirituality and is more or less accepted.
danjigirl88 1 month ago
Thanks to the wonderful Nelson Eddy who lent his voice and humour to this cartoon.
barbrasgirl8 2 months ago
Well that's no suprise of willy getting killed. I mean if someone actually discovered a singing whale, in real life. they wouldn't just let it sing. they would kill it and disect it.
artpeacemaster 2 months ago 4
Just Like Michael Jackson- a miracle that will never die
harvsoul 2 months ago 3
The seagull is quite Donald Duckish
malacopa 3 months ago
Grotesque whale, especially singing Pagliacci. Probably the weirdest Disney character ever. Thank God the merchandising never caught on.
ferociousgumby 3 months ago
This cartoon always made me want to top myself when I was a little kid! It's so depressing!!
rcarass1 3 months ago
2 black and soulless people have no hearts.
Who could dislike a benevolent singing whale that FUCKING DIES at the hands of a greedy business man?
scoshinfunkenstein 3 months ago
@scoshinfunkenstein whyd u say "2 black" ?
Heylilvelvet 3 months ago
@Heylilvelvet Because I'm obviously a racist...
The term "black" as used here represents evil rather than a physical characteristic. It's a figurative term used throughout literature.
scoshinfunkenstein 3 months ago
@scoshinfunkenstein gee, thats to bad. -_-''
Heylilvelvet 3 months ago
you Italian bastard!!! YOU KILLED WILLY!!!
Gundamknight100 4 months ago 3
GREAT introduction to OPERA. even had an "opera ending" with Willie "erschlagen"
also check out the Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd classics "What's Opera. Doc?" for the music of Richard Wagner and "Rabbit of Seville" for the music of Gioachino Rossini.
LeRinkRat 4 months ago
@3:00-3:12..I love that singing :D
CIMusgrave 4 months ago
@CIMusgrave me to, i cant get that low at 3:05 O.O
Heylilvelvet 3 months ago
When I first saw this cartoon, I was really impressed by the beautiful singing voices. However, it's sad that Willie had to die at the hands of Tetti-Tatti.
sundragonra412 4 months ago
I absolutely love the part with Willie dressed as a devil! :D
GremlinsandCrites 4 months ago
@GremlinsandCrites what is the aria from Mefistofele that Willie is singing?
LeRinkRat 4 months ago
@LeRinkRat
I am trying to figure that out too!!! I am sure its from Faust, not Mephistofole, but I'm not sure....any help from the YouTuve world??
JT826 4 months ago
@JT826
I'm for sure NO expert on either Gounod's Faust (French) or Boito's Mefistofele (Italian) BUT checking some YouTube posts of arias from each, it sounds like an altered lead in to Boito's "ecco il mondo" from Mefistofele.
BUT it could also be an altered version of the lead in to "Le veau d'or" from Faust.
they DID take some liberties with the wording of Willie's arias.
LeRinkRat 4 months ago
It's all right least Willie is in a better place where he can sing forever
sakina451 4 months ago
Could someone please tell me the name of the opera he´s singing in heaven? just beautiful!!!
ferboamorte 4 months ago
3:04 i cant get that low! i must practice o_o
medium:laaaaaaaaaaaaa
low: viiiii(cough cough!) i cant do it -_-''
Heylilvelvet 4 months ago
@TheAtlanticDan it can be :)
Heylilvelvet 4 months ago
We;ere living in a world where beauty is dying. When I go to an opera, I am surrounded by people who are over sixty. . .almost no young people. As an English teacher, I stood by as my students were forced every day to study for tests (no reading of classics, no enjoyment of art or music allowed). Music and art programs are being cut because schools and the general population don't care. But unlike Willie, there is no heaven. . .only the blandness of corporations and mass culture.
philosophy9949 4 months ago
Does anyone know what opera or song willy was singing in heaven at the end?
dwestbrook75 4 months ago
@dwestbrook75 "Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen" enjoy !!!
ferboamorte 4 months ago
@ferboamorte Thank you
dwestbrook75 4 months ago
Wow... I vagely remember seing bits of this cartoon in a disney montage that was on TV about 25 years ago. But that version ended with him singing at the met and lapping up the applause.... only after watching this now, 25 years later have I found out he dies in the full version. :-(
xxlukeyjxx 4 months ago
2 people are little bitches who get butt hurt over sad endings. LOL
DionLaurent1 4 months ago in playlist More videos from Mrcharrio
Heartwrenching.
GoddessofEggrolls 4 months ago
disney doesnt need blood and graphic violence to frighten children.
honeywater9 5 months ago 40
I thought there was a glimmer of hope for willie when we see him jumping out of the water, I only felt worse when we find out he's dead. But seeing him singing in heaven made me feel a little better.
bige81892 5 months ago
@bige81892 But I don't care what the narrator said, I hate the guy who killed him!
bige81892 5 months ago
@bige81892 i had the same thing when he kept jumping i was like "come on willie! get that harpoon outta ya! your stronger than that dumb tetti tatti!!" but when it all became silent i was like "im gona kill u tetti -_-"
Heylilvelvet 3 months ago
How come Willie is still jumping out of the water after he is harpooned? Still sad though! :'((
EdwardDavies1 5 months ago
@EdwardDavies1 I'm guessing that the harpoon did not willie him the instant it struck him.
bige81892 4 months ago
@EdwardDavies1 i think he was trying to get it out when he got injured but it got deeper until it killed him at the ocean floor D':
Heylilvelvet 4 months ago
I remember this a loooong time ago...Still makes me cry :-(
LocoRico89 5 months ago
I love this cartoon. Whales actually do sing and it is a marvellous thing, but that doesn't stop mankind from killing them. What a lasting message.
TheLorgirl 5 months ago
It'd take one hell of a stage to hold that whale. XD
Nyghtshade409 5 months ago
its been years since a cartoon has captured my attention in such a way
OldMcclintic 5 months ago
It always brings me to tears when willy dies, but I guess the narrator is right us people are not just ready, or used to miracles. I mean if they acually did find a singing whale, or any other miracules creature, they would probably end up, being disected, or worse.
artpeacemaster 5 months ago
I saw this when I was very little, and I remembered the death scene being really drawn out... I guess that's just the imprint it left on a small child's mind. Still a great piece of animation though.
PastaBakeMilkShake 5 months ago
When I was 8 years old I saw this movie about 10 times in the ship's movie theatre while sailing from Australia to America. This part always made me very, very sad, and I would hope each time that this time Tetti Tatti would realize that it was the whale singing. Great to see this again after so long.
shanonio 5 months ago
I miss this animation. After years of watching this I still pick up on new things like picking up on emotions I never noticed before.
Example for this time: as he was jumping after being harpooned and trying to get as far away from the boat as possible, even to the degree of breaking part of the boat. How he died had him with no face, just looking like a common whale getting killed, as opposed to his more animated self when he sings -End pretentious film studenty comment.- xD
SatyrLOL 6 months ago 4
*tears up* Le Bravo! BRAVIS!!!!!!
WhateverNWhatNot 6 months ago
I hate opera but this was good
hornymaneee 6 months ago
fire-breathing sperm whales scare the shit outta me...
blackblood 6 months ago
Thank you so sooooo much for posting this! I am in my 20s no, and I used to be obsessed with this cartoon when I was a little child. I would draw whales dressed up in a demon's costume and my kindergarden teachers thought I was weird, hehehehe. Nelson Eddy had a great voice! And the heaven scene is so touching.
OlgaSofia86 6 months ago
Man,there are some truly powerful images in this short. That Heaven sequence is just fantastic. Keep on singing,Wille.
SardaukarPrime 6 months ago
I remember watching this as a really small child (I'm 20 now) so wonderful to see it again!
Ceresariel 6 months ago
@Caiaphas18
that's sad
CyndellWarrior 7 months ago
@Caiaphas18
hell yessssss......
CyndellWarrior 7 months ago
0__o he....he died?! dats sad
trekkingeek 7 months ago
Such a beautiful thing. BTW, happy 110th birthday, Nelson Eddy.
angeldeb82 7 months ago
After all these years i have finally found this cartoon. I watched it when I was, I don't know maybe 7 or 8 years old. It still saddens me to watch Willie dying.
WishmasterTheDark 7 months ago
I always cry at the very ending, even after all those years, willie is so charismatic, happy, so exempt of any kind of evil or meanness... He didn't deserve to die =/
Just love this cartoon, thanks.
lucasbf1 8 months ago 3
Part from 2:46 is the best
dveron05 8 months ago
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i hated this story there is no such thing as hevean or god. willie is just dead cuz of stupid gay tetti tatti! if there was a hell he should go straight to the pit of it!!!!!!
emilybradshaw06 8 months ago
@emilybradshaw06 There is such thing as Heaven and God. but the rest I do believe except the first part. Tetti Tatti, i seriously wanted to kill him myself when i was younger... ok i still do but ill admit it when i was younger i didnt know what was going on xD till now O.o
Heylilvelvet 4 months ago
oh my god they killed willy
you basters
celticguardian009 8 months ago
Fitting that the ending aria should be "Mach der Himmel euch vergeben" (May heaven forgive you) ... very clever :)
rossyxan 9 months ago
Wish I knew the aria where he's dressed as the devil ... anyone know?
rossyxan 9 months ago
@rossyxan "Mephistopheles", a legit classic. You might also remember a portion of it from "Batman Begins".
deathcatg 7 months ago
Disney at its finest :')
genesiz7201 9 months ago
I would have totally shit myself when he bowed. Man, I had'nt seen this cartoon since I was little. I always had loved it and I always will. Sad though.
JaniceGhostHunter13 9 months ago
3:04 man that's low..... o_o
Heylilvelvet 9 months ago
I have always loved this short, I am glad I got to see it one more time.
trishthestalker 9 months ago
Horrible as it is to say it, it actually makes sense that Willie was killed at the end: after all, what is Willie but an opera singer, and what are operas but wonderful stories with a sad end?
CountTentacula 9 months ago 2
TOOO SAD
skinnyminny25 10 months ago
wtf...
"Once there was a whale who could sing.
It imagined itself getting famous.
While doing so he got killed.
The End"
hirothemouse 10 months ago
What's the name of the song at 2:46?
shaketilubreak 10 months ago
I remember when Disney Channel played good cartoons.
mpeace37 10 months ago
I love this cartoon but it's not fun watching his 3 uvulas shake around it's a lil gross lol
Armidillodude 11 months ago
@Armidillodude lol yea a little. but im practicing his deep vocal parts, its hard ._. xD
Heylilvelvet 9 months ago
Was anybody scared of the Whale when he was the Devil?
dolphinluv2413 11 months ago 2
@dolphinluv2413 I was when i was little yes but he looks better as an angel :)
Heylilvelvet 9 months ago
All I know is...When I get to heaven, I'm so gonna sing with willie.
Hethrin 11 months ago 6
2 people harpoon willy
AliceSonicGundamFan 11 months ago
HAHA! Bugs Bunny-What's Opera Doc! Another one of my faves!!!
CholaChange 11 months ago
wow I watched this when i was just a little kid. funny when you look back at stuff like that, certain things about yourself start to make sense. Now I know why I have always had a strong mistrust of impressarios!
etheangel2220 11 months ago
Social commentary! In a time when killing these magnificent creatures was accepted even one as talented at Willie is not safe.
phuffersail 11 months ago
@phuffersail i think the message is more about that humans tend to destroy what we don't understand.
fizzle455 11 months ago
if i recall corectly it was my first cartoon i ever saw when i was a lil kid and im still watching it cuz i like the music of it.... what is kinda odd cuz ima streetdancer ..i think there is just something magical on this cartoon and music..... Go Willie !!!
MrVenexPetreli 11 months ago
Poor Willie :,(
uniluver 11 months ago
old cartoons were the best :)
davebreed1 11 months ago
This cartoon is a good example how stupid mankind can be.
Bastiest 1 year ago 22
I've had nightmares about this cartoon... I saw it as a kid but I never knew what it was called! I cried for three days after I saw it though.... D: NOOOO!!!!!
IANOYTYK 1 year ago
3:20 I must have blocked this part from my mind when I was a kid. Its all coming back to me now
DarkHoodedGirl 1 year ago
I cried when Willie died
nobodysperfect06 1 year ago
@nobodysperfect06 Me too, when I was about 6.
Yugi40 1 year ago
I think this is the most interesting, heartfelt, and beautiful cartoon I have ever watched. I just stumbled upon this while searching for cartoons, And let me tell you, this is the video I fell in love. As a teen now, I never see this on TV because Hannah Montana, JBros are dominating disney, which is full of crap cause their shows are humorless and mediocre at best.
I wish walt disney never died so he could produce more of this classic. Unlike now, shows are very mediocre.
musicChick023 1 year ago 41
@musicChick023 I know... COME BACK WALT!! Make more classics or we'll have to do it ourselves :O that be kinda cool :) ill change that, RLY cool :D
Heylilvelvet 3 months ago
It was the time Disney made REAL cartoons. With a story and beautiful pictures... Not like those stupid 3D movies!! I've always loved this cartoon :)
Mahmuang 1 year ago 4
lol, I like how willie the whale got into the character he was singing as.
star9309 1 year ago
The three tenors in one guy ..... person... whale lol
friendofthejawas 1 year ago
RIP WILLIE.
LOVE YOU :p
friendofthejawas 1 year ago
The fire scene used scare the crap outta me when i was a kid. It still kinda does now
friendofthejawas 1 year ago
what song is the mephistopheles part? i know its from the opera by Arrigo Boito, but which song is it?
Darkpaint84 1 year ago
The song Willie sings when he is in Heaven is called "Mag der Himmel euch vergeben".
It is Lyonel's aria from the opera Martha that was composed by Friedrich von Flotow. The lyrics can be found here:
opera-guide.ch/libretto.php?id=119&uilang=de&lang=de
and another execution, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=6cor_dja8rw
Cheers from Brazil
lhkuminek 1 year ago
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lhkuminek 1 year ago
I saw this when i was little and I always remembered the ending. That was about 20 years ago.
ya0ish3lly 1 year ago
the end used to make me cry because it's just so damned beautiful.
ladidagirl666 1 year ago
If there is singing in Heaven, it is in Italian and Hebrew.
picardkid 1 year ago
Trust a disney cartoon to be able to still bring a few tears to my eyes.
YamsRyu 1 year ago
Does anyone know what part is the one they're singing in Tristan und Isolde?
ZackTheGopher 1 year ago
@ZackTheGopher i think the song is moon river
friendofthejawas 1 year ago
Disney made animation into art. I wonder how self absorbed fools like the creator of Family Guy can sleep at night considering all the trash he speaks of Disney when it was Disney who truly made animation what it is today. Seth can make people blush with trash humor, but the masters of animation can bring people to tears when they employ their skills.
greenmotorcar 1 year ago
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very sad story
Commonsense11111 1 year ago
very sad stiory
Commonsense11111 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this. It was one of my absolute favourite cartoons when I was little, and even all these years later I still love it. It's sad, but so beautifully animated and the music is outstanding.
Risurha 1 year ago
thats cartoon made me cry when I was a child.
fgalue 1 year ago
Is Willy played by Nelson Eddy?
Triassicc 1 year ago
@Triassicc Yup. He did all the voices.
KiraJ202 11 months ago
@Triassicc lol yup i just searched him up 2day :) RIP both willie and him :(
Heylilvelvet 9 months ago
His opera really is beautiful! I love this movie!
CopyOfMe 1 year ago
I used to watch this on tape everyday growing up.
And.. I STILL cried. Dammit.
MuffinCupid 1 year ago 4
@MuffinCupid +1 Then end always got me. It did again today, years later.
swiftjeff 1 year ago
*sniffs* beautiful....just beautiful.
Heartbreaking as far as Disney goes, I never thought I'd feel sorry for a cartoon, operatic whale.
randomandproudqueen 1 year ago 3
Disturbing end, really 0__o
No typical Disney-ending.
koivusokeri 1 year ago
that's what made Bugs Bunny so great in the 50's and 60's. Bunny Of Seville? come on that is classic stuff. before PC sucked the life out of kids shows
eahazell 1 year ago 2
I remember the first time I saw this, as a kid. I tried to hold in the tears, but it was the glistening pearly gates at the end that finally slammed it home to me that he was dead, so I blubbed away.
Dristarg 1 year ago 3
anyone know what the aria is at the end??
bijoulovesboss 1 year ago
Lionel's Prayer from the German opera Martha.
EmoMinion69 1 year ago 3
"Don't be too Harsh on Tetti Tatti"
YEAH RIGHT!!! He Killed a Whale on the premise He'd swallowed an Opera Singer just from looking at a Picture of "Jonah and the Whale"
Wanting Publicity for "rescuing a singer, from certain death"
I say String him up and Persecute him for Killing an amazing Creature like Willie
CyndellWarrior 1 year ago 42
@CyndellWarrior
Tell it friend! Down with people that deliberately murder innocent animals like whales!
Digitalfairy 1 year ago
@Digitalfairy
Thanks, and personally i still say: Hang Him!!!!!!
CyndellWarrior 1 year ago
@CyndellWarrior LOL but I agree
ThePaul1E 11 months ago
@ThePaul1E
Thankyou
CyndellWarrior 11 months ago
@CyndellWarrior dont be too harsh because he didn't understand.... these are words that can be applied to any situtation. thnk about it we arnt too harsh on people from dark ages because they didn't understand, just like in 1000 years now people will look back on how we didnt understand. lets hope they aren't too harsh on us.
fizzle455 11 months ago
@fizzle455 this is true
CyndellWarrior 11 months ago
@CyndellWarrior I'm sure they did!
Yugi40 10 months ago
@CyndellWarrior Can we torture him before killing him?
AnaShadowWolf 9 months ago
@AnaShadowWolf
Be my guest, i'll bring the Iron Maiden
CyndellWarrior 9 months ago
@CyndellWarrior i say prosecute all whalers... especially the japanese who apparently can find no other food source but endangered whales...
blackblood 6 months ago
@blackblood
they aren't hunting whales for food, they're hunting whales for their oil and skin, they drop the left overs in the ocean to rot
CyndellWarrior 6 months ago
@CyndellWarrior they don't leave them to rot they would be punished by law. they kill 100's of whales a year supposedly for research but they butcher and package the whales at sea then sell them at market and to school systems. the japanese representatives even say that nobody has the right to tell them what they should and shouldn't eat... they refer to it as "food culture". They also like dolphin meat. i tried posting a link with more info but it didn't work...
blackblood 6 months ago
@blackblood
try watching "Whale Wars" I've seen the episode where the Ship chasing Japanese whalers find a Ship that was dumping Skinned and dead whale carcasses into the ocean, they were also missing their tail fins, so maybe they use that for the food; point is, this show is filmed in real time, inother words it's happened this year, just earlier this year, so you can trust me when I say there's whalers out there dumping Whale Carcasses in the ocean left to rot
CyndellWarrior 6 months ago
@CyndellWarrior on Whale Wars they show the meat being processed and also at market. i think i'm missing some episodes as i can only afford netflix. in the documentary The Cove they show the massive slaughtering of dolphins which they process and sell (sometimes marketed as whale meat) to the public. they also put dolphin meat in the school system (as well as whale) which is bad because the last time they did that the children died of mercury poisoning. idc what way you look at it it's still bs.
blackblood 6 months ago
@blackblood Cont'd:
I'll try looking for where you read this, i didn't know about the Dolphin Meat, that's gross!! I've always been told Dolphin meat was bad for you and bad as a Food Culture source because of their lifestyle and their Diet. that's evil in of itself. Still though, Whale Wars showed a Japanese ship dumping Whale bodies. so I'm not exaggerating when I say this, or making it up.
CyndellWarrior 6 months ago
@CyndellWarrior the only episodes of whale wars i've seen don't show that so i wouldn't know... but the examples i've mentioned come from the first two seasons... whale wars says that the japanese set a quota for as many as 50 humpbacks a year to be killed... and as far as i and the u.s. are concerned, that species is endangered. i'm pretty sure you're not supposed to kill endangered animals but w/e i guess the whalers have their own rules and opinions on that
blackblood 6 months ago
@blackblood
yeah, it's called working the paper; on paper they're "Collecting tissue Samples" and paper is all their government really cares about, and as long as the US animal Protection agencies are shown the "Paper" the japanese file, without any hint of fraud or anything else shady apart from the fact they're still whaling, unfortunately they're rules say they can't touch the japanese for what they're doing
and it's cuz of the most evil word in the english Language "evidence"
CyndellWarrior 6 months ago
@blackblood Cont'd:
Our state officials always say they need "Evidence" to prove an unlawful, a TRULY unlawful act is being commited, and like in comic books they don't go by Vigilante statements so the guys chasing the whalers in Whale wars go unheard DX || and because "On Paper" we're basically being told the Japanese aren't whaling (yeah right) our Offices won't do anything XP
CyndellWarrior 6 months ago
@CyndellWarrior i'm really not surprised by human stupidity... everybody thinks that they are entitled to everything so they end up just fucking it up for everybody including themselves... i bet the japanese would eat the whales into extinction and then totally deny it/justify it in some ridiculous manner... i just hate people. there seems to be no reason why anybody should care about other people when there is nothing good about anybody. selfish assholes.
blackblood 6 months ago 3