Carl Stalling

Carl William Stalling was an American composer, voice actor, arranger, and musician for music in animated films for Disney and Warner Bros.
Stalling was born to Ernest and Sophia C. Stalling in Lexington, Missouri. He started playing piano at six. By the age of 12, he played piano at his hometown's silent movie house and soon played with and conducted orchestras at various theatres. In the 1920s, while working in Kansas City, he met Walt Disney where the budding animator was impressed with his style of combining known music pieces with his own. Keeping in touch with Walt through correspondence, Stalling was eventually hired to compose music for Walt’s cartoon subjects, picking him up in Kansas City while on the train to New York City to premiere Steamboat Willie.
Moving to California, Stalling composed scores for Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, The Skeleton Dance, Stalling even voiced Mickey Mouse in The Karnival Kid in 1929. Stalling would record the music for the animators who then choreographed the movements to match the music. This synchronization of music and on-screen movement became known as "Mickey Mousing". After two years, Stalling left the studio to work with Ub Iwerks until his studio closed in 1936 but continued to freelance for Disney as well during the early stages of of both Dumbo and Bambi.
He soon found work at Warner Bros. through Leon Schlesinger's animation studio where he became associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. He averaged one complete score each week for 22 years, totaling over 600 shorts, until his retirement in 1958.
Stalling died on November 29, 1972; a few weeks after his 81st birthday.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1928	Plane Crazy 	Composer (uncredited)
1928	The Gallopin' Gaucho	Composer
1929	The Barn Dance 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Opry House 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	When the Cat's Away 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Barnyard Battle 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Karnival Kid 	Composer (uncredited)Songwriter: "The Streets of Cairo"Voice: Mickey Mouse
1929	Mickey's Choo-Choo 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	Mickey's Follies 	ComposerStory (uncredited)
1929	The Plowboy 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Jazz Fool 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	Wild Waves 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Skeleton Dance 	ComposerBased on idea (uncredited)
1929	El Terrible Toreador	Composer
1929	Springtime 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	Jungle Rhythm 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	Hell's Bells 	Composer
1929	The Haunted House 	Composer (uncredited)
1929	The Merry Dwarfs 	Composer (uncredited)
1930	Autumn 	Composer (uncredited)
1930	Minnie's Yoo Hoo 	Composer (uncredited)Songwriter:"Minnie's Yoo-Hoo"
1933	Three Little Pigs 	Music arrangerPiano (uncredited)
1941	Dumbo 	Musical director (uncredited)
1942	Bambi 	Musical director (uncredited)
==Gallery==
Burt gillett and Disney staff.jpg|Seated, Carl Stalling and Ub Iwerks; from left, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Burt Gillett, Les Clark, Walt Disney, Johnny Cannon, and Jack King. Jackson said of this photo: "I believe Ub had just finished designing the sheet music cover."
Disney staff 1930s.jpg|Stalling at the piano, with, from left, Cannon, W. Disney, Gillett, Iwerks, Jackson, Clark, and (seated) King and Sharpsteen.
Disney staff 1930 (1).jpg|Left to Right: King, Iwerks, W. Disney, Stalling, GillettKneeling, from left, Sharpsteen, Dick Lundy, Merle Gilson, and Norman Ferguson.
Disney staff in January 1930 (2).jpg|Standing, from left: Clark, King, Sharpsteen, Jack Cutting, Gillett, Iwerks, Win Smith, Wilfred Jackson, William Cottrell, Floyd GottfredsonKneeling, from left, Lundy, Charles Byrne, Carlos Manriquez, Ferguson, Gilson, Chuck Couch, Stalling, Cannon, W. Disney
Disney staff in January 1930.jpg|Left to Right: W. Disney, Stalling, Sharpsteen, Iwerks, Clark, Gillett, Cannon, JacksonStanding: King
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