Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 movie that takes place in Latin America, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, 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 movie premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It got mixed reviews and was only rereleased once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first rerelease of Dumbo.

Saludos Amigos
Directed byNorman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske
Bill Roberts
Written byHomer Brightman
William Cottrell
Dick Huemer
Joe Grant
Harry Reeves
Ted Sears
Webb Smith
Roy Williams
Ralph Wright
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringLee Blair
Mary Blair
Pinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Norman Ferguson
Frank Graham
Clarence Nash
José Oliviera
Fred Shields
Frank Thomas
Music byOliver Wallace
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
August 24, 1942
Running time
43 minutes
LanguagesEnglish and Portuguese

Its title in Spanish means, "Hello, Friends". This was the first Disney animated feature to be shown in South America before it was shown in the USA. At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.

Segments

The movie features four different parts, or segments. Each of them begin with different clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery:

  • Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with almost disastrous results.
  • In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Uruguayan pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the movie's video release, to get rid of one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.[1]
  • Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the movie, 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 no Fubá").

Cast

Worldwide release dates
CountryPremiere
 BrazilAugust 24, 1942
 ArgentinaOctober 6, 1942
 United StatesFebruary 6, 1943
 GreeceJune 13, 1943
 United KingdomDecember 6, 1943
 AustraliaFebruary 10, 1944
 PortugalApril 8, 1944
Republic of Ireland IrelandMay 19, 1944
 SwedenMarch 18, 1946
 ItalySeptember 19, 1946
 FranceFebruary 12, 1947
 Hong KongDecember 18, 1947
 NetherlandsAugust 27, 1948
 DenmarkJune 18, 1949
 NorwayJune 18, 1949
 Argentina in  ChileDecember 1, 1950
 West GermanyMarch 17, 1953
 FinlandApril 17, 1953
 AustriaMarch 26, 1954
 JapanMarch 15, 1957
 South KoreaOctober 31, 1959

Titles in other languages
  • Chinese: 致候吾友
  • Dutch: Saludos Amigos
  • Finnish: Oppituniti
  • French: Saludos Amigos
  • German: Saludos Amigos (also known as Die Drei Caballeros Im Sambafieber)
  • Italian: Saludos Amigos
  • Japanese: ラテン・アメリカの旅 (Raten Amerika no Tabi, Journey to the Latin America)
  • Norwegian: Saludos Amigos
  • Portuguese: Alô, Amigos
  • Spanish: Saludos Amigos
  • Swedish: Saludos Amigos (also known as Kalle Anka och Långben i Sydamerika)

References
  1. http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=1996 Schnittberichte.com - Mehr als 4000 detaillierte Zensurberichte zu Filmen, Spielen, Comics, Serien und Musikvideos

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