Saludos Amigos (1942) |
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| Director(s) | Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts |
| Producer(s) | Walt Disney |
| Top Genres | Animation, Family, Fantasy |
| Top Topics | Aviation |
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Saludos Amigos Overview:
Saludos Amigos (1942) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske and Bill Roberts and produced by Walt Disney.
Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith | Nominated |
| Best Music - Song | Music by Charles Wolcott; Lyrics by Ned Washington | Nominated |
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Saludos Amigos (1942)
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Saludos Amigos Quotes:
[Donald is struggling to cross a very high and very rickety suspension bridge on a llama]
Narrator: The traveler should be cautioned against any reckless behavior at this high altitude. Overexertion is dangerous. And above all, one should never lose one's temper.
Donald Duck: Shut up, you big windbag!
See More Quotes from Saludos AmigosNarrator: The traveler should be cautioned against any reckless behavior at this high altitude. Overexertion is dangerous. And above all, one should never lose one's temper.
Donald Duck: Shut up, you big windbag!
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The title song for this movie makes a brief appearance in its follow-up "The Three Caballeros" as underscoring.
The footage of the team boarding the plane was staged after the trip when the decision was made to use home-movie footage as linking material. Disney realized they had no footage of the real boarding, so everyone dressed in the same outfits they left with and shot footage of them leaving the studio and going into the plane.
The shorts that form this movie were originally intended to be released separately, but were combined to form this movie because it had been decided that each short would only be of interest to the people whose country it depicted. Therefore, footage of the Disney team on location in South America was used to make the framing sequence around the original shorts.
At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney "feature" to date.
The "Pedro" segment "inspired" the Chilean cartoonist René RÃos Boettiger ("Pepo") to create, in 1949, his most famous character: "Condorito", which became one of the most popular comic strip characters around the world.