We are embarking on this great experiment of watching all 51 Walt Disney Studio Animated Features before the 52nd, Wreck it Ralph, is released this fall. Our last installment was The Three Caballeros. As we watch, we’ll make note of our thoughts or comments, write them down, and post them after. Aaron’s comments are in blue. Whtiney’s comments are in this pinkish hue. Anything in black is a quote or will help reference what was on the screen at the time.
Feature: Make Mine Music
Release: 1946
Viewing: Gold Collection DVD
Why has it been edited for content?
Well – they took out one of the animated shorts because of content. Somebody thought it was offensive.
What was offensive?
It was about the Martins and the McCoys – a feuding family thing.
Well, this was supposed to be in full screen but our Bluray player has decided otherwise for some reason.
A lullaby.
This is the first segment: Blue Bayou.
Blue Bayou
Is this kind of like Fantasia? Just singing and pictures?
Sort of. It’s stories with songs set to them. Or songs with stories set to them.
Pretty.
So far, is it better than the Three Caballeros?
Yes.
See – its cutting off the head of the…
Stork thing. Crane.
Are they going to be in love?
Maybe. You always say that whenever there is two of the same animal on the screen.
A Jazz Interlude
“All the cats join in”
“This concerns a jukebox and a cat.”
This one’s fun.
Yeah.
Goodness!
Scandalous!
She didn’t have any panties or a bra on. Oh – now she does.
This song is catchy. I like it.
That’s a packed car. They’re not wearing seatbelts.
Oh – a soda fountain.
I like this cartoon – it’s fun.
A Ballad in Blue
Awe. This one looks sad.
Could you read what the letter said?
No. Should we rewind it?
What is that?
I don’t know ripples? Oh – Shadows of trees on the snow? Water?
Well, that was sad. But not very sad.
And it was weird.
That was a big difference than the one before it. Maybe we get a fun one now.
Casey at the Bat
Play ball.
That was funny.
They were mean about women (the song said they don’t know a strike from a hit, they were just coming to see Casey)
This one isn’t really a song.
Just at the beginning it was.
Why is he crying?
I don’t know.
Now Casey comes to bat with a song.
Violence against umpires.
(Grating teeth) – Aaron cringed.
I don’t like that noise either. Casey is pretty cocky.
What? What happened?
Well – it’s saying that he didn’t make it. That’s how the poem goes.
And let that be a lesson to you.
That was kind of random at the end.
Two Silhouettes
Pretty.
OH interesting.
What?
Well, it just looks like they filmed real people and then made silhouettes to interact with the animated world. Kind of cool.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, see?
Mm-hmm.
That was neat.
Mm-hmm.
Did you have any other thoughts?
Ummm…I liked that one.
That’s kind of weird – the two cupid angels turning into a heart.
That’s how it started though.
Oh right.
Peter and the Wolf
It seems like it’s a happy one and a sad one or something.
Do you know about Peter and the Wolf?
No.
Well, you’ll learn then.
What about the wolf?
There. See?
What instrument is that?
Several.
Scary. Does Peter die?
You have to see.
It’s a Russian story.
Sneaky.
The wolf!
Oh no!
Ah! He’s scary.
He’s so scary. How is he going to get him with that little cork gun?
He got her. He got the duck.
Oh. I didn’t think any of them would go.
Where’s the little bird? Oh.
Grandpapa?
Nope. Not grandpapa.
Hunters?
Yep.
How come only that little duck had to die?
Only?
Yeah – the bird and the cat got to live.
Yeah, I don’t know.
Oh good! He just tricked them!
He’s not dead! Everyone’s happy now.
Oh good.
After You’ve Gone
Instruments on parade.
How is this different from Melodytime?
I don’t know. I haven’t seen Melodytime.
I don’t like those finger legs.
They’re creepy. They are like something you’d see in Beetlejuice.
I wasn’t allowed to watch that.
Oh.
This one is kind of random. What was it called?
After You’ve Gone.
I like the music but the cartoon is not very fun.
A Love Story
Oh! I’ve heard of them. (This song is sung by the Andrews Sisters.)
Yeah.
A love story of hats.
A hatbox palace.
Maybe someone will buy him and then they (the people) will fall in love.
What did it say?
Love’s Reunion ( a sign blocking Johnny Fedora from getting to Alice Blue Bonnett)
He got picked by a drunkard guy?
Oh. He’s cold.
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. (as Johnny Fedora is swept from the street and almost ends up in the sewer.)
That was cute! What a good story.
The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met
This is funny. An opera about a whale who wants to sing in the opera.
Tetti-Tatti. (A professor who…
Jonah and the Whale! (…suspects the whale has swallowed an opera singer…just as Jonah was swallowed…)
That song is probably inappropriate today.
Yeah…
I wish I could go out to the ocean and see a whale.
And now we care about opera without even realizing it.
Why do the sailors not have feet?
That’s weird. I didn’t notice that.
Who came up with this idea?
I don’t know.
It’s so random.
This one’s funny.
What?! Oh no!
Oh no.
Poor Willie.
I’m very sad. I was really hoping he would get to sing at the Met.
I didn’t want him to die.
Me either. That was rotten. They made me care about a whale who could sing opera…
…And then they just killed him.
Why does he have green wings? (in “whale heaven”)
That was the end.
Oh.
The end.
The Beginning of Always 