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Make Mine Music

Make Mine Music
Make mine music poster.png
Original theatrical release poster
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
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • April 20, 1946 (1946-04-20) (Premiere-New York City)
  • August 15, 1946 (1946-08-15) (U.S.)
Running time
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.


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