Little Boy with a Big Horn

Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.

A gentrified man is sitting at home, quietly reading his newspaper when his young son ("Ollie") takes a seat and sets about blowing his new big French horn! It's a deafening cacophony that ensues and his parents suggest he play outside to avoid disturbing them. All that solution delivers is the irritation of the entire street causing tempers to fray and accidents galore. Pretty soon, there is a concentrated "Stop Ollie" campaign calling on his parents to put a cork in it. "Ollie" refuses to be beaten though, and decides to take his skills into the wilderness where surely nobody can care about the racket? Wrong again - can the boy ever find anywhere to practice? Oddly enough, he does manage to find an home - and is soon the talk of the very town that shunned his talents! It's quite a lively and enjoyable animation this, epitomising as it does the worst in nimbyism and an hypocrisy amongst those who are keen to criticise but keener to share in glory, when it's there - all, of course, soundtracked to horn music. I started to learn the bagpipes when I was young... Enough said!