Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos
Directed by	Norman Ferguson Wilfred Jackson Jack Kinney Hamilton Luske Bill Roberts
Written by	Homer Brightman William Cottrell Dick Huemer Joe Grant Harry Reeves Ted Sears Webb Smith Roy Williams Ralph Wright
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Lee Blair Mary Blair Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Norman Ferguson Frank Graham Clarence Nash José Oliviera Fred Shields Frank Thomas
Music by	Paul Smith Edward H. Plumb
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	February 6, 1943
Running time	43 minutes
Languages	English Portuguese Spanish

Saludos Amigos is a 1943 movie that takes place in Latin America, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, 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 movie premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It got mixed reviews and was only rereleased once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first rerelease of Dumbo.

Its title in Spanish means, "Hello, Friends". This was the first Disney animated feature to be shown in South America before it was shown in the USA. At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.

Segments

The movie features four different parts, or segments. Each of them begin with different 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 Lake Titicaca and meets with some of the local yokels, including a llama.

• Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with almost disastrous results.

• In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Uruguayan pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the movie's video release, to get rid of one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.

• Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the movie, 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

Titles in other languages

• Chinese: 致候吾友
• Dutch: Saludos Amigos
• Finnish: Oppituniti
• French: Saludos Amigos
• German: Saludos Amigos (also known as Die Drei Caballeros Im Sambafieber)
• Italian: Saludos Amigos
• Japanese: ラテン・アメリカの旅 (Raten Amerika no Tabi, Journey to the Latin America)
• Norwegian: Saludos Amigos
• Portuguese: Alô, Amigos
• Spanish: Saludos Amigos
• Swedish: Saludos Amigos (also known as Kalle Anka och Långben i Sydamerika)

Other websites

• Saludos Amigos on IMDb
• Saludos Amigos at the Big Cartoon DataBase (Dead link)