SALUDOS AMIGOS

'''Saludos Amigos''' ("Alô, Amigos" in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
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. ''Saludos Amigos'' was popular enough for a sequel, ''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''.
According to Jack Haley Jr.'s documentary ''Life Goes To War'', the United States Department of State commissioned this movie during World War II to be shown in Central and South America to build up relations with the Latin American populace. Several governments had close ties with Nazi Germany (e.g. Argentina) and the most popular US figure there was Mickey Mouse.

Contents

Worldwide release dates

Film segments

Trivia

Cast

See also

External links

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

★ '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

Film segments

This film features four different segments, each of which beginning with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing up cartoon drawings 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.

★ 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.

★ ''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").

Trivia

★ It is the first Disney film to have a sequel, The Three Caballeros in 1944 with second Disney film, The Rescuers (1977) to have a sequel for 1990, The Rescuers Down Under.

★ The film's title is Spanish for "Hello, Friends" (more literally, "Greetings, 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.

★ The title song for this movie makes a brief appearance in its follow-up, ''The Three Caballeros'', as underscoring.

★ The title song was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943. It became Disney's fourth to do so. (It lost to the song "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello.)

★ Gaucho is the denomination for cowboys in South America Pampa region.

★ The DVD release has been edited to current cultural attitudes towards animated family films. There is a scene in which Goofy is sitting, dressed as a cowboy. He tips his hat then inhales from a cigarette and then exhales smoke before he is suddenly pulled away. The DVD features him tipping his hat and then sitting still with his arm extended. [1]


★ Chilean comic book artist René Ríos (a.k.a. Pepo) was irritated that Chile was represented only by the airplane Pedro and so created his best known character Condorito as an answer to the film [2].

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

See also

★ List of animated feature films

★ South of the Border with Disney

External links

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