Make Mine Music

1946
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1h 15m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

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Animation done to contemporary popular music.

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Hand-Drawn Animation Adventure Animation Comedy Family Musical

Animation done to contemporary popular music.Animation done to contemporary popular music.Animation done to contemporary popular music.

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Nelson Eddy

Narrator
(voice)
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Dinah Shore

Laverne Andrews

Andrews Sisters
(singing voice)
(as Andrews Sisters)

Maxene Andrews

Andrews Sisters
(singing voice)
(as Andrews Sisters)

Patty Andrews

Andrews Sisters
(singing voice)
(as Andrews Sisters)

Benny Goodman

Bandleader
(credit only)

Jerry Colonna

Narrator (segment "Casey at the Bat")
(voice)

Andy Russell

Sterling Holloway

Narrator (segment "Peter and the Wolf")
(voice)

Tatiana Riabouchinska

Silhouetted Dancer
(as Riabouchinska)

David Lichine

Silhouetted Dancer
(as Lichine)

The Pied Pipers

Ken Darby

The King's Men
(singing voice)
(as King's Men)
…

Jon Dodson

The King's Men
(singing voice)
(as King's Men)

Bud Linn

The King's Men
(singing voice)
(as King's Men)

Rad Robinson

The King's Men
(singing voice)
(as King's Men)

The Ken Darby Singers

John Brown

Umpire
(voice)
(uncredited)

Storyline

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Trivia
Peter and the Wolf (1946) has an explicitly Russian setting and Russian characters who are portrayed sympathetically. It is an example of the period it was produced. For much of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies. Pro-Russian/Soviet works such as the film The North Star (1943) were regularly produced by American creators. By 1946, when "Make Mine Music" came out, the War had recently ended and the two countries were still nominally allied. The tensions that would lead to the Cold War were already present, but major actions of hostility did not take place until 1947. It was only then than Anti-Soviet sentiment became the norm in the United States.

Goofs
In All the Cats Join In (1946), when the blonde teenage boy and brunette teenage girl in their car pick up their first passenger, a brown haired teenage hitchhiker boy, their car is speeding so fast that his shoes fall off when he is picked up. Yet in the next shot of the car, the hitchhiker boy can be seen in the back seat of the car with his feet propped up and his shoes are back on his feet.

Quotes
Narrator: Peter, don't just stand that way!
[the wolf leans Peter downward]
Narrator: And don't stand that way either.

Alternate versions
In 2000 Disney cut the entire "Martins & Coys" sequence from the film due to the comic gunplay which they feared could be confused with reality by children.

Connections
Edited from Without You (1946)

Soundtracks
Make Mine Music
(1946) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Ken Darby and Eliot Daniel
Sung by an offscreen chorus during the opening credits

8/10 ****/5 ~ Walt Disney's Pop "Fantasia" for the Fightin' Forties.

Make Mine Music finds Walt Disney in the midst of the transitional period between his first five animated features (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi) and the post-war revival begun with Cinderella (1950).

The idea of a casual variant of Fantasia featuring popular music was a good one. Even though the segments which comprise the film vary in quality, the film as a whole is a bright, colorful and amusing light entertainment which fit wartime needs ideally.

Highlights include two spirited Benny Goodman swing numbers ("All The Cats Join In" and "After You've Gone") and the unforgettable finale, "Willie the Operatic Whale", narrated and sung by Nelson Eddy. The animation is generally first-rate and the Technicolor film will dazzle any viewer not expecting a genuine masterwork.

Make Mine Music was successful enough to warrant a considerably better follow-up, Melody Time (1948).

The undistinguished but harmless "Martins and the Coys" segment, concerning the gun-feuding backwoods families of American folklore, has idiotically been removed from current editions, evidently for PC reasons. It's scary that Disney may start altering their classics to meet artificial modern standards. (If they had cut anything from Make Mine Music, it should have been the tasteless "Two Silhouettes" ballet, all doilies and valentines and icky fake sentiment.)