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Original theatrical release poster
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Directed by |
Jack Kinney Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Joshua Meador Robert Cormack |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Written by |
James Bordrero Homer Brightman Erwin Graham Eric Gurney T. Hee Sylvia Holland Dick Huemer Dick Kelsey Jesse Marsh Tom Oreb Cap Palmer Erdman Penner Harry Reeves Dick Shaw John Walbridge Roy Williams |
Starring |
Nelson Eddy Dinah Shore Benny Goodman The Andrews Sisters Jerry Colonna Sterling Holloway Andy Russell David Lichine Tania Riabouchinskaya The Pied Pipers The King's Men The Ken Darby Chorus |
Music by |
Eliot Daniel Ken Darby Charles Wolcott Oliver Wallace Edward Plumb |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
Release date
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Running time
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75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.35 million |
Box office | $2.25 million (US rentals) |
Make Mine Music is a 1946 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres on April 20, 1946. It is the 8th Disney animated feature film.
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 six package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
This particular film has ten such segments.
This segment featured popular radio vocal group, The King's Men singing the story of a Hatfield-McCoy feud in the mountains broken up when two sole surviving young people from each side fell in love. This segment was removed from the NTSC home media version due to gunplay, while in the PAL home media version, it was kept.
This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia using the Claude Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque. It featured two egrets flying through the Everglades on a moonlit night. However, by the time Make Mine Music was released Clair de Lune was replaced by the new song Blue Bayou, performed by the Ken Darby Singers. However, the original version of the segment still survives.