Saludos Amigos

Infobox Film
name = Saludos Amigos


director = Norman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske
Bill Roberts
writer = 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
producer = Walt Disney
released = August 24, 1942
runtime = 43 minutes
language = English and Portuguese
imdb_id = 0036326

"Saludos Amigos" ("Alô, Amigos" in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. 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."Walt & El Grupo" (documentary film, 2008).] "Saludos Amigos" was popular enough for another film, "The Three Caballeros", to be produced two years later. The film 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).

Disney was chosen for this because several Latin American governments (e.g. Argentina) had close ties with Nazi Germany and the most popular US figure there was Mickey MouseFact|date=June 2007.

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

Worldwide release dates

*Brazil: August 24, 1942 (Rio de Janeiro)
*Argentina: August 26, 1942
*Australia: February 15, 1943
*U.K.: February 15, 1943
*Mexico: April 26, 1943
*Greece: June 13, 1943
*Spain: August 21, 1944 (Madrid)
*Spain: December 28, 1944 (Barcelona)
*Sweden: March 18, 1946
*Italy: September 19, 1946
*France: February 11, 1947
*Netherlands: April 14, 1947
*Belgium: April 14, 1947
*Hong Kong: December 18, 1947
*Egypt: September 13, 1948
*Denmark: June 18, 1949
*Norway: June 18, 1949
*Philippines: November 15 1951
*West Germany: March 17, 1953
*Finland: April 17, 1953
*Austria: March 26, 1954
*Japan: March 20, 1957
*South Korea: October 31, 1959
*Uruguay: November 12, 1966
*Israel: April 14, 1970

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:

* In Lake Titicaca, American tourist Donald Duck visits the title location and meets with some of the local yokels, including an obstinate llama.

* 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 (Pepon) started one of the most famous latinamerican comic: Condorito

* In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Argentine 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. [ [http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=1996 Schnittberichte.com - Mehr als 4000 detaillierte Zensurberichte zu Filmen, Spielen, Comics, Serien und Musikvideos ] ]

* 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").

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

ee also

*List of animated feature films
*South of the Border with Disney

Other References

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

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