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Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos
Saludosposter.jpg
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by
Starring
Narrated by Fred Shields
Music by
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • August 24, 1942 (1942-08-24) (World Premiere-Rio de Janeiro)
  • February 6, 1943 (1943-02-06) (U.S. Premiere-Boston)
  • February 19, 1943 (1943-02-19) (U.S.)
Running time
42 minutes
Country United States
Language
  • English
  • Portuguese

Saludos Amigos (Spanish for Greetings, Friends) is a 1942 American animated package film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the sixth Disney animated feature film and the first of the six package films produced by Walt Disney Productions in the 1940s. Set in Latin America, 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, the Brazilian cigar-smoking parrot.Saludos Amigos was popular enough that Walt Disney decided to make another film about Latin America, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later. Saludos Amigos premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It garnered positive reviews and was theatrically reissued in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of Dumbo.

In early 1941, before U.S. entry into World War II, the United States Department of State commissioned a Disney goodwill tour of South America, intended to lead to a movie to be shown in the US, Central, and South America as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. This was being done because several Latin American governments had close ties with Nazi Germany, and the US government wanted to counteract those ties. Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters were popular in Latin America, and Walt Disney acted as ambassador. The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc. from his studio to South America, mainly to Brazil and Argentina, but also to Chile and Peru.


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