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Post by joplin4 on Sept 28, 2009 21:19:14 GMT -5
The next Disney feature in our spotlight focuses on music once more, just as its predecessor, "Make Mine Music". This film features seven separate segments.
1. In "Once Upon a Wintertime", Frances Langford sings of a couple that spend a romantic afternoon on the ice. When the ice breaks, it's up to the boy to rescue the girl with the help of the horses. A pair of bunnies mirror the couple's actions in this story.
2. "Bumble Boogie" tells of a bumble bee that's trying to escape a "musical nightmare". Freddy Martin and his orchestra provide the lively music for this sequence.
3. Dennis Day lends his voice to all the characters in the story of "Johnny Appleseed" as he goes west to plant apple trees across a young America.
4. In "Little Toot", the Andrews' sisters sing the story of a little tugboat that wants to be like his dad, but gets into a lot of trouble. He is proclaimed a hero when he saves an ocean liner from danger and brings them into port.
5. Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians give their interpretation of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.
6. Donald Duck and Jose Carioca join up once again with the Aracuan in "Blame it on the Samba", sung by the Dinning sisters. This segment also features Ethel Smith.
7. In "Pecos Bill", Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers tell the story of Pecos Bill to Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten.
This film was released on May 24, 1948.
What are your thoughts on this film?
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Post by meggyc on Sept 29, 2009 18:39:20 GMT -5
Johnny Appleseed is one of my favorite short Disney films of all time. I was always a sucker for the tall tale Disney cartoons, but this is just a cut above the others. I remember watching this particular segment in grade school and just being memorized.
I think that the only other segment I have seen from this film was "Once Upon a Wintertime" which I remember watching and enjoying as a kid. It was a sweet little film.
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