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Make Mine Music
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| Make Mine Music | |
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| Directed by | Jack Kinney Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Joshua Meador Robert Cormack |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Written by | James Bordrero Homer Brightman Erwin Graham Eric Gurney T. Hee Sylvia Holland Dick Huemer Dick Kelsey Dick Kelsey Jesse Marsh Tom Oreb Cap Palmer Erdman Penner Harry Reeves Dick Shaw John Walbridge Roy Williams |
| Starring | Nelson Eddy Dinah Shore Benny Goodman The Andrews Sisters Jerry Colonna Sterling Holloway Andy Russel David Lichine Tania Riabouchinskaya The Pied Pipers The King's Men The Ken Darby Chorus |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
| Release date(s) | April 20, 1946 (New York City premiere) |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.
During the Second World War, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released four package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music.
Contents |
- Brazil
: April 26, 1946 - Argentina
: July 19, 1946 - Mexico
: July 25, 1946 - U.K.
: September 16, 1946 - Australia
: February 13, 1947 - Sweden
: April 4, 1949 - France
: September 14, 1949 - Netherlands
: October 13, 1949 - Belgium
: October 13, 1949 - Italy
: December 16, 1949 - Hong Kong
: December 21, 1950 - Finland
: April 18, 1952 - Denmark
: June 2, 1952
This particular film has ten such segments:
- The Martins and the Coys featured popular radio vocal group, The King's Men, singing the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fall in love. This segment was later cut from the film's video release due to comic gunplay.
- Blue Bayou used animation, originally intended for Fantasia using the Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune.
- All the Cats Join In is one of two segments to which Benny Goodman contributed. An innovative shot in which a pencil draws the action as it is happening, and in which 1940s teens are swept away by popular music.
- Without You is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.
- Casey At the Bat featured Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.
- Two Silhouettes featured two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette as Dinah Shore sings the title song. Animated backgrounds and characters add to the magic.
- Peter and the Wolf features Sterling Holloway narratingan adaptation of Prokofiev's composition about a little boy who goes out hunting for a mean old wolf, with each of the characters being thematically represented by a member of an orchestra (violins, flute, etc.).
- After You've Gone again featured Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphic instruments paraded through a musical playground.
- Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett told the beautifully comic story of two hats who fall in love in a department store window. When Alice is sold, Johnny devotes himself to finding her again. The Andrews Sisters provide the vocals.
- The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met was the bittersweet finale about a Sperm Whale with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. But short-sighted impressario, Tetti-Tatti, believes that the whale has simply swallowed an opera singer, and chases him with a harpoon. The film features radio star Nelson Eddy as all the voices.
Make Mine Music proved to be a slight disappointment itself, particularly from Walt Disney's critical view. It was not well received by the critics either. In succeeding years, the segments were individually released as short subjects or used in various Disney television programs.
| Actor | Role(s) |
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| Nelson Eddy | Narrator; Characters (The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met) |
| Dinah Shore | Singer (Two Sillhouettes) |
| Benny Goodman | Music composer (All the Cats Join In\After You've Gone) |
| The Andrews Sisters | Singers (Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet) |
| Jerry Colonna | Narrator (Casey At the Bat) |
| Sterling Holloway | Narrator (Peter and the Wolf) |
| Andy Russell | Singer (Without You) |
| David Lichine | Dancer (Two Silhouettes) |
| Tania Riabouchinskaya | Dancer (Two Silhouettes) |
| The Pied Pipers | Singers |
| The King's Men | Singers (The Martins and the Coys) |
| The Ken Darby Chorus | Singers (Blue Bayou) |
| Preceded by The Three Caballeros |
Walt Disney Pictures 1946 |
Succeeded by Fun and Fancy Free |