Make Mine Music
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Make Mine Music | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster |
|
| 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 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 Russell 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) August 15 1946 (general) |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
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 six package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.
The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Contents |
[edit] Film segments
This particular film has ten such segments:
- The Martins and the Coys features popular radio vocal group, 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 features 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 features Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem by Ernest Thayer, about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.
- Two Silhouettes features two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. Dinah Shore sings the title song.
- Peter and the Wolf is an animated dramatization of the 1936 musical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with narration by actor Sterling Holloway. A Russian boy named Peter sets off into the forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sasha, a duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan.
- After You've Gone again features Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphized instruments parade through a musical playground.
- Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett tells the romantic 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 is 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. Nelson Eddy narrates and performs all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sings all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. In the end Willie is harpooned and killed, but the narrator softens the blow by telling the viewers that he sings on in heaven.
[edit] Production
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role(s) |
|---|---|
| Nelson Eddy | Narrator; Characters (The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met) |
| Dinah Shore | Singer (Two Silhouettes) |
| 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) |
[edit] Home video
Make Mine Music's sole home video release was on VHS and DVD on June 6, 2000 under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection title. Before, two of its segments were released on home video individually with addition cartoons added to them in the 80's and 90's. This release is edited to remove "The Martins and the Coys" in it because it has "graphic gunplay not suitable for children." No other release has been scheduled.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Make Mine Music". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4280/year/1946.html. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
[edit] External links
|
|||||
