Information about Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos
Directed by	Norman Ferguson Wilfred Jackson Jack Kinney Hamilton Luske Bill Roberts
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Homer Brightman William Cottrell Dick Huemer Joe Grant Harry Reeves Ted Sears Webb Smith Roy Williams Ralph Wright
Starring	Lee Blair Mary Blair Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Norman Ferguson Frank Graham Clarence Nash José Oliviera Fred Shields Frank Thomas
Release date(s)	August 24, 1942
Running time	43 minutes
Language	English and Spanish
Followed by	The Three Caballeros (1944)
IMDb profile

Saludos Amigos ("Alô, Amigos" in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. 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. Saludos Amigos was popular enough for a sequel, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later. The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It garnered mixed reviews and was only reissued once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of Dumbo.

According to Jack Haley Jr.'s documentary Life Goes To War, the United States Department of State commissioned this movie during World War II to be shown in Central and South America to build up relations with the Latin American populace. Several governments (e.g. Argentina) had close ties with Nazi Germany and the most popular US figure there was Mickey Mouse.

Worldwide release dates

• Brazil: August 24, 1942 (Rio de Janeiro)
• Argentina: August 26, 1942
• Australia: February 15, 1943
• U.K.: February 15, 1943
• Mexico: April 26, 1943
• Greece: June 13, 1943
• Spain: August 21, 1944 (Madrid)
• Spain: December 28, 1944 (Barcelona)
• Sweden: March 18, 1946
• Italy: September 19, 1946
• France: February 11, 1947
• Netherlands: April 14, 1947
• Belgium: April 14, 1947
• Hong Kong: December 18, 1947
• Denmark: June 18, 1949
• Norway: June 18, 1949
• Philippines: November 15 1951
• West Germany: March 17, 1953
• Finland: April 17, 1953
• Austria: March 26, 1954
• Japan: March 20, 1957

Film segments

This film features four different segments, each of which beginning with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing up cartoon drawings of some of the local cultures and scenery:

• In Lake Titicaca, American tourist Donald Duck visits the title location and meets with some of the local yokels, including an obstinate llama.
• Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.
• In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Argentine pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the film's video release to remove one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.
• Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the film, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico Tico").

Trivia

• It is the first Disney film to have a sequel, The Three Caballeros in 1944 with second Disney film, The Rescuers (1977) to have a sequel for 1990, The Rescuers Down Under.
• The film's title is Spanish for "Hello, Friends" (more literally, "Greetings, Friends").
• This was the first Disney Animated feature to be shown in South America before it was screened in the USA.
• At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.
• The title song for this movie makes a brief appearance in its follow-up, The Three Caballeros, as underscoring.
• The title song was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943. It became Disney's fourth to do so. (It lost to the song "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello.)
• Gaucho is the denomination for cowboys in South America Pampa region.
• The DVD release has been edited to current cultural attitudes towards animated family films. There is a scene in which Goofy is sitting, dressed as a cowboy. He tips his hat then inhales from a cigarette and then exhales smoke before he is suddenly pulled away. The DVD features him tipping his hat and then sitting still with his arm extended. http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=1996

• Chilean comic book artist René Ríos (a.k.a. Pepo) was irritated that Chile was represented only by the airplane Pedro and so created his best known character Condorito as an answer to the film http://www.bibliotecapiloto.gov.co/bib_virtual/condorito.htm.

Cast

• Lee Blair - Himself
• Mary Blair - Herself
• Pinto Colvig - Goofy
• Walt Disney - Himself
• Norman Ferguson - Himself
• Frank Graham - Himself
• Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
• José Oliveira - José Carioca
• Fred Shields - Narrator
• Frank Thomas - Himself

See also

• List of animated feature films
• South of the Border with Disney

External links

• Saludos Amigos at the Big Cartoon DataBase

•  • [ e] Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) •  (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	(1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) •  (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) • A Christmas Carol (2009)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios

Preceded by Bambi	Walt Disney Pictures 1942	Succeeded by The Three Caballeros