Sunday, February 26, 2023

South of the Border With Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program, 1941-1948 Production Credits

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1A. Saludos Amigos
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The Disney artists, inspired by their recent trip to South America, present both new and familiar characters in four fanciful cartoon segments set in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.
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World Premiere: August 24, 1942 (Rio de Janeiro)
U.S. Release: February 6, 1943
Technical Specifications: Technicolor, 1.37:1, 42 minutes
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Voices
Donald Duck: Clarence Nash
Joe Carioca: José Oliveira
Goofy: Pinto Colvig
Narrator: Fred Shields
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Crew
Production Supervisor: Norman Ferguson
Story: Homer Brightman, Ralph Wright, Roy Williams, Harry Reeves, Dick Hummer, Joe Grant
Story Research: Ted Sears, Bill Cottrell, Webb Smith
Musical Director: Charles Wolcott
Art Supervision: Mary Blair, Herb Ryman, Lee Blair, Jim Bodrero, Jack Miller, backgrounds for "El Gaucho Goofy" inspired by F. Molina Campos
Sequence Directors: Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
Animators: Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Milt Kahl, Milt Neil, Woolie Reitherman, Les Clark, Bill Justice, Bill Tytla, John Sibley, Hugh Fraser, Paul Allen, John McManus, Andrew Engman, Dan MacManus, Josh Meador
Backgrounds: Hugh Hennesy, Al Dempster, Claude Coats, Ken Anderson, Yale Gracey, Al Zinnen, McLaren Stewart, Art Riley, Dick Anthony, Merle Cox
Music: Ed Plumb, Paul Smith
"Saludos Amigos" Lyrics: Ned Washington
"Saludos Amigos" Music: Charles Wolcott
Foreign Supervisor: Jack Cutting
Associates: Gilberto Souto, Alberto Soria, Edmundo Santos
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Lake Titicaca
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Animation: Milt Kahl, Bill Justice
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Lake Titicaca

Director: Bill Roberts
Layout: Hugh Hennesy
Animation: Milt Neil (Duck's introduction to Lake Titicaca, siroche and balsa boat scenes and bakery, native walks downhill, Duck tries to place planks ahead of walking llama on suspension bridge, Duck with single plank)
Milt Kahl (native orchestra, natives walking with and against wind, Duck with baby, young boy and llama, Duck's flute-playing sequence, most of suspension bridge sequence)
Bill Justice (natives walking with and against wind, Duck poses in costume, Duck hangs from rope and is yanked back up to bridge, Duck piles planks under llama, Duck with llama on back and trying to tie rope, falling into pottery market, rolling into lake, and paddling away)
Josh Meador (LS silhouette of Duck and llama, CU of unraveling rope)
Art Palmer (Duck and llama's first scene on suspension bridge, planks fall into gorge)
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Pedro
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Director: Hamilton Luske
Story director: Bill Cottrell
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Bill Tytla
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Pedro

Director: Ham Luske
Story director: Bill Cottrell
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Bill Tytla (papa plane, second part of Pedro's return flight through the storm, papa and mama at end)
Ham Luske (mama plane, first signal tower scene, Pedro flies through the pass, Pedro runs from lightning bolt)
Fred Moore (Pedro introductory scenes and takeoff, first half of his flight through retrieval of the mail, Pedro returns at the end)
• Josh Meador (oil pressure gauge, Christ of the Andes, upshot of Aconcagua with rain and lightning, lightning bolt, windshield scene with rain, altimeter dial, general rain efx, airfield lights and signal tower at end)
Ward Kimball (Pedro saunters out for takeoff, Pedro scurries behind cloud and comes out cockily, first part of Pedro's return flight with condor chase and encounter with Aconcagua)
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El Gaucho Goofy
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Animation: Woolie Reitherman
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El Gaucho Goofy

Director: Jack Kinney
Layout: Al Zinnen
Animation: Hugh Fraser (Goof in Texas and whisked away, Goof and horse pose for picture, Goof saddles horse, avestruz solo scenes)
Wolfgang Reitherman (most of Goof and horse in Argentina, including avestruz chase)
Harvey Toombs (panuela and poncho on Goof, Goof on fire and whisked out of scene, Goof in water trough at end)
Andy Engman (barbecue smoke and nighttime efx, Goof's return flight and landing)
Dan MacManus (fire efx at end)
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Aquarela Do Brazil
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Director: Wilfred Jackson
Animation: Fred Moore, Les Clark, Bill Tytla
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Aquarela Do Brazil

Director: Wilfred Jackson
Layout: McLaren Stewart
Animation: Josh Meador (opening paint and paintbrush scenes until introduction of Joe, closing Rio scene)
Paul Allen (introduction of Duck)
• Bill Tytla (introduction of Joe and his meeting with Duck)
Les Clark (Donald Duck reads Joe Carioca's card and produces his own, crowd samba scene)
• Milt Neil (Duck consults dictionaries)
• Fred Moore (Duck and Joe in "Tico Tico" number, Joe walks with Duck and teaches him the samba, Duck and Joe at sidewalk café, girl dancing samba alone and with Duck)
Dan McManus (paintbrush action beginning with painting Joe, cachaça fire, brush paints scenery as Duck and Joe walk and paints musical instruments)
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1B. The Three Caballeros
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Donald Duck, representing North America, Joe Carioca from Brazil, and Panchito the Mexican charro rooster join forces as the "three caballeros" in a colorful musical tour of South America and Mexico.
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World Premiere: December 21, 1944 (Mexico City)
U.S. Release: February 3, 1945
Technical Specifications: Technicolor, 1.37:1, 71 minutes
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Cast
Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Nestor Amaral, Almirante, Trio Calaveras, Ascencio Del Rio Trio, Padua Hills Players
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Voices
Donald Duck: Clarence Nash
Joe Carioca: José Oliveira
Panchito: Joaquin Garay
Narrators: Fred Shields, Frank Graham, Sterling Holloway
"Mexico" sung by: Carlos Ramirez
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Crew
Production Supervision and Direction: Norman Ferguson
Story: Homer Brightman, Ernest Terrazas, Ted Sears, Bill Peet, Ralph Wright, Elmer Plummer, Roy Williams, Bill Cottrell, Del Connell, James Bodrero
Sequence Direction: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Director (Pátzcuaro, Veracruz, Acapulco): Harold Young
Brazilian and Spanish Supervisor: John Cutting
Associates: Gilberto Souto, Aloysio Oliveira, Sidney Field, Edmundo Santos
Assistant Production Supervisor: Larry Lansburgh
Animators: Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Fred Moore, John Lounsbery, Les Clark, Milt Kahl, Hal King, Frank Thomas, Harvey Toombs, Bob Carlson, John Sibley, Bill Justice, Ollie Johnston, Milt Neil, Marvin Woodward, Don Patterson
Special Effects Animation: Josh Meador, George Rowley, Edwin Aardal, John McManus
Backgrounds: Al Dempster, Art Riley, Ray Huffine, Don Douglass, Claude Coats
Layout: Don DaGradi, Hugh Hennesy, McLaren Stewart, Yale Gracey, Herb Ryman, John Hench, Charles Philippi
Art Supervision: Mary Blair, Ken Anderson, Bob Cormack
Live-Action Sequences Photography: Ray Rennahan, A.S.C.
Art Direction: Richard Irvine
Choreography: Billy Daniels, Aloysio Oliveira, Carmelita Maracci
Technicolor Direction: Natalie Kalmus
Associate: Morgan Padelford
Color Consultant: Phil Dike
Process Effects: Ub Iwerks
Process Technician: Richard Jones
Music Directors: Charles Wolcott, Paul J. Smith, Edward Plumb
Lyrics: Ray Gilbert
Technical Advisor: Gail Papineau
Film Editor: Don Halliday
Sound Recording: C.O. Slyfield
Production Manager: Dan Keefe
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1. Opening—into Penguin Picture

Director: Jack Kinney
Animation: Hal King (Duck opens packages, looks at film, sets up and runs projector)
Jack Boyd ("Aves Raras" title)
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The Cold-Blooded Penguin

Story: Bill Cottrell
Animators: Milt Kahl, Bill Justice
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The Cold-Blooded Penguin

Director: Bill Roberts
Story director: Bill Cottrell
Layout: Hugh Hennesy
Animation: Harvey Toombs (other penguins, farewell committee, and Pablo melting through the ice, Pablo encased in ice, Pablo finishes sawing his boat, Pablo looks through telescope, Pablo reads chart, Pablo's meeting with Neptune)
• Josh Meador (smoke efx, snowball crashes igloo, boat sails in LS, fog efx, storm cloud, telescope views of island, stove silhouette, chart, Viña del Mar and Quito, sun and melting igloo, stopper squirts and tub sinks)
• Milt Kahl (Pablo warms himself at stove, Pablo's attempted departures, Pablo starts to saw ice boat, Pablo in "rainstorm," Pablo enjoys the sun, Pablo with his sinking tub and making for the island, Pablo on the island at end)
• Bill Justice (Pablo in fog, Pablo with melting igloo)
Ed Aardal (Pablo overtaken by storm cloud)
• Dan McManus (miscellaneous water efx)
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2. Birds—Insert from Penguin to Gauchito

Layout: Don DaGradi
Animators: Eric Larson
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2. Birds—Insert from Penguin to Gauchito

Layout: Don DaGradi
Animation: Hal King (most of Duck animation, Marrequito builds nest and Aracuan destroys it)
Eric Larson (exotic birds, introduction of Aracuan, Duck attempts to imitate flamingos)
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The Flying Gauchito

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Herb Ryman, Ken Anderson
Animators: Eric Larson, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston
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The Flying Gauchito

Directors: Norm Ferguson, Eric Larson
Story director: Jim Bodrero
Layout: Herb Ryman, McLaren Stewart, Ken Anderson
Animation: Eric Larson (introduction of hornero and donkey, gauchito and donkey by campfire, LS town, gambling gauchos, first starter scene, townspeople shadows, gauchito and donkey trail other riders, last part of race and ending)
Frank Thomas (introduction of gauchito, gauchito goes hunting, pursues and captures donkey, dancers, second starter scene, gauchito struggles with the rope, then cuts it and takes off)
• Ollie Johnston (gauchito climbs along path, gauchito and donkey before race, preparations for race, most of race until gauchito and donkey are knocked down)
John Sibley (dancers' feet, musical instrument montage)
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3. Lead into Baia

Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: Fred Moore, John Lounsbery, Les Clark
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3. Lead into Baia

Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Hal King (opening scene of Duck with unreeled film)
• Josh Meador (large box with smoke)
John Lounsbery (Duck runs to box, pulls out and drops package)
• Les Clark (Duck unwraps package and opens book)
• Fred Moore (all of Joe Carioca, Duck reacts to Joe)
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Baía
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Sequence 1: Have you ever been to Bahia?

Layout: Yale Gracey
Animators: Eric Larson, Fred Moore, Les Clark
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Sequence 1: Have you ever been to Bahia?

Layout: Yale Gracey
Animation: Fred Moore (Joe and Duck at beginning, Joe interrupted by Aracuan)
• Eric Larson (Aracuan runs around the frame line)
• Les Clark (Joe scolds the Aracuan and begins his song)
John McManus (Brazil map)
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Sequence 2: Baía

Layout: John Hench
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Sequence 2: Baía

Layout: Bob Cormack, John Hench
Animation: Josh Meador (light and dewdrop efx, boats on river, two doves in cathedral tower)
• John McManus (dove flies through scene, doves' reflections in pool)
George Rowley (doves fly into garden)
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Sequence 3: Baixa do Saparteiro

Layout: Yale Gracey, Ken Anderson
Animators: Eric Larson, Fred Moore, John Lounsbery, Les Clark
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Sequence 3: Baixa do Saparteiro

Layout: Ken Anderson, Yale Gracey
Animation: John Lounsbery (Joe finishes "Baía," Duck and Joe alight from train and look at next pages of book)
• Fred Moore (all of number: "Have You Ever Been to Bahia?")
• Eric Larson (book reveals train station, Duck and Joe run in, train cars separate)
• Les Clark (most of train's trip, including Aracuan action)
Marvin Woodward (train through forest, last car hops curve)
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Sequence 4: Os quindins de Yayá

Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Fred Moore, John Lounsbery, Les Clark, Ollie Johnston
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Sequence 4: Os quindins de Yayá

Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: John Lounsbery (Duck and Joe investigate book and hear singing, Duck and Joe hear o/s guitarist, Duck and Joe with pencil player, Joe's "fast worker" line, Duck misses the first kiss, Duck and Joe watch fight)
• Josh Meador (Yaya's shadow on wall)
• Fred Moore (Duck and Joe meet Yayá, walk along wall behind her, Duck and Joe regard guitarist, Joe dances with Yayá, Duck edges him out, Joe and Duck as guitarist returns with girls)
• Ward Kimball (Duck pursues Yayá, Joe holds him back, Duck on wall as Yayá sings to him)
• Eric Larson (Duck and Joe compete for Yaya's attention, jealous Duck, Joe gives him the mallet, Duck and Joe dance down street with Yayá)
• Les Clark (Joe and Duck join dancing, group dancing scene, Duck misses orange peddler with mallet and is hit himself. Duck's musical hallucination and cockfight, dancing buildings, book slams shut)
• Ollie Johnston (Duck gets second kiss from Yayá and is love-struck, Joe leads dancers at end)
• John Sibley (dancing lamppost, Duck with dancing chair and fountain elephant)
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4. Duck-Parrot Blowing Up
 
Animators: Eric Larson, Fred Moore, John Lounsbery
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4. Duck-Parrot Blowing Up

• John Lounsbery (Duck and Joe emerge from book, Duck in trance, Joe reminds him of gifts, Duck runs up side of box and falls)
• Eric Larson (Joe reassures Duck and inflates self, Duck begins his attempt)
• John Sibley (Duck's unsuccessful attempts, distorted body, Duck listens to Joe)
• Fred Moore (Joe's laughter, Duck successfully inflates self and happy reaction)
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La Piñata
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Sequence 1: Intro to Charro

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Herb Ryman
Animators: Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Les Clark, Ollie Johnston
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Sequence 1: Intro to Charro

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Hugh Hennesy, Herb Ryman
Animation: Les Clark (Duck and Joe leap into box and pull ribbons on package)
• Josh Meador (sound track)
• Milt Neil (Duck and Joe dance and interact with sound track)
• Ward Kimball (Duck grabs Joe, introduction of Panchito and his opening song, most of "Three Caballeros" number)
• Fred Moore (CUs of Joe in "Three Caballeros" number)
• Ollie Johnston (Duck puzzled by piñata, Panchito begins explanation of Christmas)
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Sequence 2: Las Posadas & Breaking Piñata

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Herb Ryman
"Las Posadas" paintings: Mary Blair
Animators: Ward Kimball, Ollie Johnston
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Sequence 2: Las Posadas & Breaking Piñata

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Herb RymanHugh Hennesy
"Las Posadas" paintings: Mary Blair
Animation: George Rowley (animated efx on "Las Posadas" paintings, club misses, then hits piñata, flood of gifts, miscellaneous efx)
• Ollie Johnston (Duck prepares and tries to break piñata, Panchito and Joe pull rope, piñata toys march to music, caballeros catch them, Duck with pig and bull, Duck runs and has sarape draped over head)
• Ward Kimball (Panchito in piñata sequence?)
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Sequence 3: Folio

Director: Clyde Geronimi
"Mexico" paintings: Mary Blair
Animators: Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Fred Moore, Ollie Johnston
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Sequence 3: Folio

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Hugh Hennesy, Charles Philippi
"Mexico" paintings: Mary Blair
Animation: Ollie Johnston (Panchito shows book to Duck and Joe, introduction of magic sarape, caballeros ride sarape through first live-action shots and arrive at Pátzcuaro)
• Josh Meador (Mexican flag and historical tableaux)
• Eric Larson (caballeros dance Jarabe Pateño, then leave on sarape, Duck tries to join dancing and Joe and Panchito urge him to dance with Carmen)
Don Patterson (caballeros fly from Pátzcuaro to Veracruz, Panchito and Joe fly away with protesting Duck, aerial "attacks" on Acapulco, Duck lands in water and continues chasing girls, Panchito and Joe sweep him up on sarape)
• Ward Kimball (caballeros watch Lilongo, Duck dances with Carmen, Joe and Panchito pull him away)
• Fred Moore (Joe and Panchito dance during Lilongo sequence)
• Milt Neil (caballeros fly over Acapulco beach, Duck lands on beach as Panchito and Joe watch him, Duck tossed in blanket by girls, caballeros on sarape after leaving Acapulco)
• Hal King (caballeros on sarape pursue last girl, Duck's quick-change and dive from sarape, Duck chases girls on beach)
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Sequence 4: Solamente una vez

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: John Lounsbery, Les Clark
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Sequence 4: Solamente una vez

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken AndersonBob Cormack
Animation: John Lounsbery (caballeros leave Acapulco, Panchito introduces Mexico City scene, Duck listens to Dora and fantasizes)
• George Rowley (aerial scene of Mexico City, star efx)
• Les Clark (Duck fantasy during instrumental section)
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Sequence 5: Montage

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: John Lounsbery, Les Clark
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Sequence 5: Montage

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Les Clark (Duck kissed by lips, Duck as hummingbird)
• Josh Meador (Duck as skyrocket and neon hummingbird with neon flowers, Duck with flying patterns of girls and ducks)
• John Lounsbery (Duck floats toward Dora fantasy images, Panchito and Joe disrupt images, caballeros with girls' legs)
• John McManus (Duck and girls against red background, Duck and final fantasy images of Dora)
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Sequence 6: Zandunga

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: Les Clark
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Sequence 6: Zandunga

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Les Clark (Duck watches Carmen and dances with her, swaying flowers)
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Sequence 7: Jesusita (The Cactus March)

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animators: Fred Moore, Les Clark
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Sequence 7: Jesusita (The Cactus March)

Director: Norm Ferguson
Layout: Ken Anderson
Animation: Fred Moore (first part of dance: Duck and cacti, Duck watches Carmen and tries to dance with her)
• Les Clark (second part of dance: Duck surrounded by cacti and with cactus ducks)
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Sequence 8: Finale

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Animator: Fred Moore
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Sequence 8: Finale

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Layout: Hugh HennesyCharles Philippi
Animation: Fred Moore (Panchito and Joe ride straw horses out of horn, first part of bullfight through Joe lighting firecrackers with cigar, final scene of caballeros looking up at fireworks)
• George Rowley (firecracker efx, explosion and "End" title)
• Don Patterson (second half of bullfight: Duck out of bull, bull chases Duck, Duck and bull charge each other)
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Melody Time, released in 1948, was the last, and arguably best, of the Disney animated features to be compiled from a series of short cartoons, prior to a return to single story features two years later with Cinderella, Like Make Mine Music, the film employed a number of popular entertainers to present the musical sequences, and while its disparate episodes lack any unifying element, there is strong storytelling with the tales of "Johnny Appleseed," "Little Toot" and "Pecos Bill." The film also features the pictorially delightful "Once Upon a Wintertime." the exquisitely animated "Trees," and, in "Bumble Boogie" and "Blame It on the Samba," two of the most outrageously imaginative and vibrantly exciting pieces of experimental animation featured in the Disney studio's output during the 1940s.
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U.S. Release: May 27, 1948 (as part of the package feature Melody Time)
Technical Specifications: Technicolor, 1.33:1, 75 minutes
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Cast
Ethel Smith
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Crew
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Story: Ken Anderson
Directing Animators: Ward Kimball, John Lounsbery, Les Clark
Character Animators: Harvey Toombs, Hal King
Layout: Hugh Hennesy, Lance Nolley, Bob Cormack
Effects Animation: Josh Meador
Backgrounds: Ralph Hulett, Dick Anthony
Special Process: Ub Iwerks
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1C. Blame It On The Samba
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Blame It on the Samba
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Director: Clyde Geronimi
Story: Ken Anderson
Animation: Ward Kimball, John Lounsbery, Les Clark
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Blame It On The Samba

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Story: Ken Anderson
Layout: Bob Cormack, Hugh Hennesy, Lance Nolley
Animation: Hal King (blue Duck and Joe, Aracuan seats them at table, Aracuan snaps staff, slices up instruments, and mixes musical cocktail, Duck and Joe fall off console, CU of Aracuan riding note, Duck and Joe dance wildly after Ethel's hot foot, Aracuan at end)
• John Lounsbery (Duck and Joe look at menus, Aracuan starts to take orders, then tears up menus, introduction of number, Duck and Joe watch Ethel play drums, characters blown into air by explosion)
• Les Clark (Duck and Joe land in cocktail glass, watch Ethel play and samba on organ console, Duck knocked off, underneath, and pulled back up to top of console)
• Harvey Toombs (Aracuan draws hole and follows Duck and Joe into it, Aracuan lights dynamite and buildup to explosion)
• Ward Kimball (most of riding-notes sequence, from Aracuan painting lips through Duck and Joe's bumpy ride, Aracuan gives Ethel hot foot)
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