Make Mine Music

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Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.

During the Second World War, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released four package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music.

Contents

1 Film segments
2 Criticism
3 Titles in different languages
4 Cast
5 See also
6 External links

Film segments

This particular film has ten such segments:

The Martins and the Coys featured popular radio vocal group, The King's Men, singing the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fall in love. This segment was later cut from the film's video release due to comic gunplay.
Blue Bayou used animation, originally intended for Fantasia using the song Clair de Lune, which went on to inspire the name of a restaurant at New Orleans Square in Disneyland.
All the Cats Join In is one of two segments to which Benny Goodman contributed. An innovative shot in which a pencil draws the action as it is happening, and in which 1940s teens are swept away by popular music.
Without You is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.
Casey At the Bat featured Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.
Two Silhouettes featured two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette as Dinah Shore sings the title song. Animated backgrounds and characters add to the magic.
Peter and the Wolf is perhaps the only segment to have any lasting cultural impact. Sterling Holloway narrates this adaptation of Prokofiev's composition about a little boy who goes out hunting for a mean old wolf, with each of the characters being thematically represented by a member of an orchestra (violins, flute, etc.).
After You've Gone again featured Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphic instruments paraded through a musical playground.
Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett told the beautifully comic story of two hats who fall in love in a department store window. When Alice is sold, Johnny devotes himself to finding her again. The Andrews Sisters provide the vocals.
The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met was the bittersweet finale about a Sperm Whale with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. But short-sighted impressario, Tetti-Tatti, believes that the whale has simply swallowed an opera singer, and chases him with a harpoon. The film features radio star Nelson Eddy as all the voices.

Criticism

Make Mine Music proved to be a slight disappointment itself, particularly from Walt Disney's critical view. It was not well received by the critics either. In succeeding years, the segments were individually released as short subjects or used in various Disney television programs.

Titles in different languages

Dutch: Maak de Muziek van de Mijn
Finnish: Iskelmäparaati
French: La Boîte à Musique
German: Mach Mir Musik
Italian: Musica Maestro!
Portuguese: Musica, Maestro!
Spanish: Musica Maestro (also known as La Cajita Musical in Latin America)
Swedish: Spela för mej (also known as Spela för mig)

2000 DVD cover of Make Mine Music.

Cast

Actor	Role(s)
Nelson Eddy	Narrator; Characters (The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met)
Dinah Shore	Singer (Two Sillhouettes)
Benny Goodman	Music composer (All the Cats Join In; After You've Gone)
The Andrews Sisters	Singers (Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet)
Jerry Colonna	Narrator; Characters (Casey At the Bat)
Sterling Holloway	Narrator (Peter and the Wolf)
Andy Russel	Singer (Without You)
David Lichine	Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
Tania Riabouchinskaya	Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
The Pied Pipers	Singers
The King's Men	Singers (The Martins and the Coys)
The Ken Darby Chorus	Singers (Blue Bayou)

External links

Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • American Dog (2008) • Rapunzel Unbraided (2009)
Live-action films with animation
The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToons Studio animated features
(1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other theatrical animated features
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (1937) • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000)