Saludos Amigos (1942)

Writers:

Homer Brightman (story) &
Ralph Wright (story) ...
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Release Date:

6 February 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Family | Fantasy | Music

Tagline:

Walt Disney goes South American in his gayest musical Technicolor feature

Plot:

Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.

Plot Keywords:

South America | Trip | Tourist | Llama | Lake Titicaca

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars.

Cast

Fred Shields	...	Narrator
José Oliveira	...	Joe Carioca (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pinto Colvig	...	Goofy (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney	...	Himself (uncredited)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Frank Thomas	...	Artist (uncredited)

Writing credits
Homer Brightman		(story) &
Ralph Wright		(story) &
Roy Williams		(story) &
Harry Reeves		(story) &
Dick Huemer		(story) &
Joe Grant		(story)

Original Music by
Edward H. Plumb		(as Ed Plumb)
Paul J. Smith		(as Paul Smith)

Production Management
Norman Ferguson	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Lee Blair	....	art supervisor
Mary Blair	....	art supervisor
James Bodrero	....	art supervisor (as Jim Bodrero)
John P. Miller	....	art supervisor (as Jack Miller)
Herbert Ryman	....	art supervisor (as Herb Ryman)

Animation Department
Paul Allen	....	animator
Ken Anderson	....	background artist
Dick Anthony	....	background artist
Les Clark	....	animator
Claude Coats	....	background artist (as Claude Coates)
Merle Cox	....	background artist
Al Dempster	....	background artist
Andy Engman	....	animator (as Andrew Engman)
Hugh Fraser	....	animator
Yale Gracey	....	background artist
Hugh Hennesy	....	background artist
Bill Justice	....	animator
Milt Kahl	....	animator
Ward Kimball	....	animator
Dan MacManus	....	animator
John McManus	....	animator
Joshua Meador	....	animator (as Josh Meador)
Fred Moore	....	animator
Milt Neil	....	animator
Wolfgang Reitherman	....	animator (as Wooly Reitherman)
Art Riley	....	background artist
John Sibley	....	animator
McLaren Stewart	....	background artist
Bill Tytla	....	animator
Al Zinnen	....	background artist
Paul Murry	....	animator (uncredited)

Music Department
Charles Wolcott	....	musical director

Other crew
William Cottrell	....	story researcher
Jack Cutting	....	foreign supervisor
Walt Disney	....	presenter
Wilfred Jackson	....	sequence director
Jack Kinney	....	sequence director
Hamilton Luske	....	sequence director (as Ham Luske)
Bill Roberts	....	sequence director
Edmundo Santos	....	associate foreign supervisor
Ted Sears	....	story researcher
Webb Smith	....	story researcher
Alberto Soria	....	associate foreign supervisor
Gilberto Souto	....	associate foreign supervisor

Thanks
F. Molina Campos	....	acknowledgment: backgrounds inspired by: "El Gaucho Goofy"

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• RKO Radio Pictures (1942) (USA) (theatrical)
• RKO Radio Pictures (1949) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Daiei Motion Picture Company (1957) (Japan) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Gativideo (Argentina) (video)

Also Known As:

Hello Friends (USA) (literal English title)

Runtime:

40 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Portuguese

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:Approved (certificate #8092) | USA:Not Rated (video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Peru:PT | Sweden:Btl | Australia:G

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney "feature" to date.

Quotes:

[Pedro has just picked up the mail and is returning home]
Narrator: I'll bet his mother and dad will be proud of him. Just a natural born flier.
[Pedro then starts showing off, including flying upside-down, all while holding onto the mail]
Narrator: Hmm... Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Lake Titicaca (1955)

Soundtrack:

Aquarela do Brasil

Barely Feature Length

This is the fore runner of the many of the Disney TV shows of the 50's, 60's and 70's, mixing live action travel footage with cartoons that tie into the subject.It is also the first of the multi-short film that Disney would release as feature through the 1940's and early 1950's, but its one of the better ones since the pieces are all about on the same level. This, to me, is a better film than the Three Caballeros which followed it and which more people know about than this.

There are really only only four shorts, Donald a tourist, Goofy as a gaucho, Pedro the mail plane, and a piece set to the song Brazil that introduces Joe Carioca.

The real problem with this film is it just stops. Brazil ends and so does the movie. I know they say leave them wanting more but this is ridiculous.

This is a renter. The DVD box says its 75 minutes, but only if you include the short documentary, which is almost as long as the movie itself. If you and your kids like it, then buy it, but its too little to be throwing 20 bucks away on.