Thumper""s family, a quail and its line of baby chicks, and other animals rushed to see, while calling for the Owl to wake up as he grumbled: "What now?" Thumper and other siblings told the Owl about the new event: "Wake up.It is a joyous, uplifting, three-hour adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II""s 1959 hit Broadway stage musical (that starred Mary Martin).The outer space theme was emphasized by the eerie and moody electronic sounds of theremin heme music.The success of the balletic themes that combined dance with design and music in Powell and Pressburger""s British film inspired director Vincente Minnelli to follow suit in his own masterpieceAn American in Paris (1951)- he had experimented with shorter ballet sequences in his earlier filmsYolanda and the Thief (1945)andZiegfeld Follies (1946).