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Saludos Amigos

Original theatrical release poster
Directed by Norman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske
Bill Roberts
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by Homer Brightman
William Cottrell
Dick Huemer
Joe Grant
Harry Reeves
Ted Sears
Webb Smith
Roy Williams
Ralph Wright
Starring Lee Blair
Mary Blair
Pinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Norman Ferguson
Frank Graham
Clarence Nash
José Oliviera
Fred Shields
Frank Thomas
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Buena Vista Distribution
Release date(s) August 24, 1942
Running time 43 minutes
Country United States
Brazil
Language English
Portuguese

Saludos Amigos (Hello, friends in English, Alô, Amigos in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It is the 6th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is the first of six package films made by the Disney studio in the 1940s. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca.[1] Saludos Amigos was popular enough that Walt Disney decided to make another film about Latin America, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later. Saludos Amigos premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It garnered mixed reviews and was only reissued once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of Dumbo.

In early 1941, before U.S. entry into World War II, the United States Department of State commissioned both a Disney goodwill tour of South America, intended to lead to a movie to be shown in Central and South America as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. The tour, underwritten by the State Department, took Disney and a group of composers, artists, etc. from his studio to South America, mainly to Brazil and Argentina, but also to Chile and Peru. The film itself was given federal loan guarantees. These were necessary because the Disney studio had over-expanded just before European markets were closed to them by the war, and because Disney was struggling with labor unrest at the time (including a strike that was underway at the time the goodwill journey began).[1]

Disney was chosen for this because several Latin American governments had close ties with Nazi Germany[1], and the US government wanted to counteract those ties. Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters were popular in Latin America, and Walt Disney acted as ambassador.

The film received 3 Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Original Music Score and Best Song for "Saludos Amigos".

The film also inspired Chilean cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger to create Condorito, one of Latin America's most ubiquitous cartoon characters. Ríos perceived that the character Pedro, a small, incapable airplane, was a slight to Chileans and created a comic that could supposedly rival Disney's comic characters.

Contents

Film segments

This film features four different segments, each of which beginning with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery:

  • Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results. Disappointed with Pedro as the image that the outside world had of Chile, Cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger (Pepo) started one of the most famous Latin American comic magazines: Condorito.
  • In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Argentinian pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the film's video release to remove one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.[2]
  • Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the film, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").

Production

Cast and characters

Release

Home video

  • Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection 2000[3]
  • Combo pack with The Three Caballeros 2008[4]

See also

Other references

This was one of the many films featured in Donald Duck's 50th Birthday.

References

  1. ^ a b c Walt & El Grupo (documentary film, 2008).
  2. ^ Schnittberichte.com - Mehr als 4000 detaillierte Zensurberichte zu Filmen, Spielen, Comics, Serien und Musikvideos
  3. ^ Allmovie entry
  4. ^ Allmovie entry

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Saludos Amigos
Directed by Norman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske
Bill Roberts
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by Homer Brightman
William Cottrell
Dick Huemer
Joe Grant
Harry Reeves
Ted Sears
Webb Smith
Roy Williams
Ralph Wright
Starring Lee Blair
Mary Blair
Pinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Norman Ferguson
Frank Graham
Clarence Nash
José Oliviera
Fred Shields
Frank Thomas
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) August 24, 1942
Running time 43 minutes
Language English and Portuguese
Followed by The Three Caballeros (1944)

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 movie made by Walt Disney Pictures that takes place in Latin America, produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca. Saludos Amigos was popular enough for a sequel, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later. The movie premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It got mixed reviews and was only rereleased once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first rerelease of Dumbo.

Its title in Spanish means, "Hello, Friends". This was the first Disney Animated feature to be shown in South America before it was screened in the USA. At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.

Contents

Segments

The movie features four different parts, or segments. Each of them begin with different clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery:

  • Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with almost disastrous results.
  • In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Uruguayan pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the movie's video release, to get rid of one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.[1]
  • Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the movie, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").

Cast

  • Lee Blair - Himself
  • Mary Blair - Herself
  • Pinto Colvig - Goofy
  • Walt Disney - Himself
  • Norman Ferguson - Himself
  • Frank Graham - Himself
  • Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
  • José Oliveira - José Carioca
  • Fred Shields - Narrator
  • Frank Thomas - Himself

Worldwide release dates

Titles in other languages

References

  1. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=1996 Schnittberichte.com - Mehr als 4000 detaillierte Zensurberichte zu Filmen, Spielen, Comics, Serien und Musikvideos

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