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{{short description|1946 animated film by Walt Disney}}
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| name = Make Mine Music
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| runtime = 75 minutes
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'''''Make Mine Music''''' is an ] produced by ] and released to ]s by ] on August 15, ]. It is the eighth ] in the ].
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| released = {{Film date|1946|4|20|New York City|1946|8|15|United States| ref1=<ref name="Make Mine Music: Detail View">{{cite web | url=https://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24867| title=Make Mine Music: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | access-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref>|ref2=<ref name="Make Mine Music: Detail View"/>}}
| runtime = 75 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $1.35 million<ref name="Variety09121945">{{cite web|last1=Stengel|first1=Fred|work=Variety|title=14 RKO Pictures to Exceed Million in Prod. Cost in Coming 'Year of Years'|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety159-1945-09#page/n55/mode/1up|page=4|date=September 12, 1945|via=]}}</ref>
| gross = $3.275 million (worldwide rentals)<ref name="Jewell">{{cite journal| title=Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment.|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=14 |issue=1 |year=1994}}</ref>
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'''''Make Mine Music''''' is a 1946 American animated ] ] produced by ] and released by ] on April 20, 1946.


During the ], much of ]'s staff was drafted into the ], and those that remained were called upon by the ] to make training and ]s. As a result, the ] was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the ] division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six ] including this one, made up of various unrelated ]s set to music. This is the third package film, following ] and ]. During ], much of ]'s staff was drafted into the ], and those that remained were called upon by the ] to make training and ]s. As a result, the ] was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six ] including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following '']'' and '']''. The film was entered into the ].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4280/year/1946.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Make Mine Music |access-date=January 3, 2009|work=Cannes Film Festival}}</ref>


== Film segments ==
The film was entered into the ]. <ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4280/year/1946.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Make Mine Music |accessdate=2009-1-3|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>
This particular film has ten such segments.


=== ''The Martins and the Coys'' ===
To date, ''Make Mine Music'' is the only movie in the ] not to gain a ] and ] DVD release.
The popular radio vocal group The King's Men sings the story of a ]-style feud in the mountains. The feud is broken up when Grace Martin and Henry Coy, two young people from each side, inadvertently fall in love.


=== ''Blue Bayou'' ===
==Film segments==
This segment featured animation originally intended for '']'' using the ] musical composition '']'' from ] (conducted by ]). It featured two ] flying through the ] on a moonlit night. However, by the time ''Make Mine Music'' was released ''Clair de Lune'' was replaced by the new song ''Blue Bayou'', performed by the ] Singers. However, the original version of the segment still survives.
This particular film has ten such segments:


=== ''All the Cats Join In'' ===
* ''The Martins and the Coys'' features popular ] ] group, ] singing the story of a ] in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fall in love. This segment was later cut from the film's ] release due to comic gunplay.
This segment was one of two sections in which ] and his Orchestra contributed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hischak |first1=Thomas S. |last2=Robinson |first2=Mark A. |title=The Disney Song Encyclopedia |date=2013 |edition=2 |publisher=Taylor Trade Publishing |isbn=9781589797130 |page=4}}</ref> Their music played over visuals drawn by an animator's pencil as the action occurred. The scene portrayed ] ] of the 1940s, being swept away by ]. This segment features some mild female nudity that was edited out in both the US and UK DVD releases, although the film's Japanese home video releases features it intact and uncensored.<ref name="forum.blu-ray.com">{{Cite web|url=https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=301104&page=26|title=Saludos Amigos / The Three Caballeros (1942-1944) (75th Anniversary Edition) - Page 26 - Blu-ray Forum}}</ref>
* ''Blue Bayou'' features ] originally intended for '']'' using the ] musical composition ].
* ''All the Cats Join In'' is one of two segments to which ] contributed. An innovative shot in which a pencil draws the action as it is happening, and in which 1940s ] are swept away by ].
* ''Without You'' is a ] of lost love, sung by ].
* '']'' features ], ] the famous ] about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.
* ''Two Silhouettes'' features two live-action ], ] and ], moving in ] with animated backgrounds and characters. ] sings the title song.
* '']'' features ] narrating an adaptation of ] ] about a little boy who goes hunting for a ], with each of the characters being thematically represented by a member of an orchestra (violins, flute, etc.).
* ''After You've Gone'' again features ] and his ] as four ] instruments parade through a musical playground.
* ''Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett'' tells the ] of two ]s who fall in love in a ] window. When Alice is sold, Johnny devotes himself to finding her again. ] provide the vocals.
* ''The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met'' is the bittersweet ] about a ] with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing ]. But short-sighted ] Tetti-Tatti believes that the whale has simply swallowed an ] ], and chases him with a ]. ] narrates and performs all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sings all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from ]'s opera, ]. In the end Willie is harpooned and killed, but the narrator softens the blow by telling the viewers that he sings on in heaven.


=== ''Without You'' ===
==Production==
This segment is a ] of lost love, sung by ].
===Cast===

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=== ''Casey at the Bat'' ===
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This segment featured ], ] the poem also titled "]" by ], about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing. The setting is 1902, in the town of Mudville. A few moments are exaggerated or altered and music is added. A sequel to this segment called ''Casey Bats Again'' was released on June 18, 1954 as theatrical short.

=== ''Two Silhouettes'' ===
This segment featured two ] live-action ], ] and ], moving in ] with animated backgrounds and characters. The dancers are accompanied by two ], also in silhouette. ] sang the title song.

=== ''Peter and the Wolf'' ===
The segment "Peter and the Wolf" is an animated dramatization of the 1936 ] by ], with narration by actor ]. A Russian boy named Peter sets off into the forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sascha, a duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan. Just like in Prokofiev's piece, each character is represented with a specific musical accompaniment: Peter by the ], Sascha by the ], Sonia by the ], Ivan by the ], Grandpapa by the ], the Hunters through their gunfire by the ], and the evil Wolf primarily by ] and ]s.

=== ''After You've Gone'' ===
This segment again featured ] and The Goodman ] (], ] and ]) as six ] instruments (Piano, ], Snare and bass Drums, Cymbal and ]) who paraded through a musical playground.

=== ''Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet'' ===
This segment told the ] of two hats who fell in love in a ] window in ]. When Alice ] was sold, Johnnie ] devoted himself to finding her again. They eventually, by pure chance, meet up again and live happily ever after together, side by side. ] provided the vocals. Like the other segments, it was later released theatrically. It was released as such on May 21, 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://affichesdisney.canalblog.com/archives/johnny_fedora___alice_bluebonnet/index.html|access-date=December 3, 2010|title=Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet|language=fr}}</ref>

=== Finale: ''The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met'' ===
The final segment, the finale of the film, is a bittersweet story about a ] (named Willie) with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing ]. A rumor is spread throughout the city about an operatic whale, but is seemingly disproven, therefore the short-sighted ] Tetti-Tatti believes that the whale has swallowed an opera singer. He concludes this after studying the story of ].

Tetti-Tatti sets out to "rescue" his non-existent quarry, the newspapers announcing that he was going to sea. Whitey, Willie's seagull friend, excitedly brings Willie the newspaper, all of his friends believing that this is his big chance, so he goes out to meet the boat and sing for Tetti-Tatti. He finds them, and upon hearing Willie sing, Tetti-Tatti comes to believe that Willie has swallowed not one, but '''three''' singers (due to his having three uvulas, each with a different voice range; tenor, baritone and bass), and chases him with a ] on a boat with three crewmen. Upon hearing the whale sing, the crewmen try to stop the stubborn and deluded Tetti-Tatti from killing the whale, as they want to continue listening to him sing, even to the point of pinning Tetti-Tatti down by sitting on him. A montage then follows of what would be Willie's future career in performing opera on the stage of the ], with Tetti-Tatti shown to have finally been convinced. In the end, reality strikes when Tetti-Tatti succeeds in harpooning and killing Willie which causes the three sailors to beat him up afterwards, but the narrator then explains that Willie's voice (now in a thousand, each more golden than before) will sing on in heaven, ironically still achieving his dream after all; the final shot is of the Pearly gates with a "sold out" sign. ] narrated and performed all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sang, among others, '']'', "]" from '']'', all three male voices in the first part of the ] from ]'s opera, '']'', and ''Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen'' from Friedrich Wilhelm Riese's opera '']''

As the curtains close, the film ends.

== Cast ==
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| ] || Singer (''Two Silhouettes'') | ] || Singer (''Two Silhouettes'')
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| ] || Music composer (''All the Cats Join In''\''After You've Gone'') | ] || Musician (''All the Cats Join In''/''After You've Gone'')
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| ] || Singers (''Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet'') | ] || Singers (''Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet'')
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| ] || Narrator (''Casey At the Bat'') | ] || Narrator (''Casey at the Bat'')
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| ] || Narrator (''Peter and the Wolf'') | ] || Narrator (''Peter and the Wolf'')
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| ] || Singers | ] || Singers (''All the Cats Join In'')
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| ] || Singers (''The Martins and the Coys'') | The King's Men || Singers (''The Martins and the Coys'')
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| ] || Singers (''Blue Bayou'') | ] || Singers (''Blue Bayou'')
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==Home Video==
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Make Mine Music's sole home video release was on VHS and DVD on June 6, 2000 under the ] title. Before, two of its segments were released on home video individually with addition cartoons added to them in the 80's and 90's. This release is, unfortunately, edited to not have "The Martins and the Coys" in it because it has "graphic gunplay not suitable for children." No other release has been scheduled.
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== Release ==
''Make Mine Music'' was initially released in theaters in 1946. Like many other package features of the 1940s, it was never given a wide theatrical reissue. Instead, its distinct segments were separated and released as separate short films or used as segments in ].

=== Home media ===
''Make Mine Music'' was originally released on home video in ] on October 21, 1985. All of its segments (except for ''Without You'' and ''The Martins and the Coys'') had been released on home video in the US since they were shown on '']'' television series and/or released only as shorts.

''Casey at the Bat'' was featured on the VHS release of ''Disney's Tall Tales'' in 1985.

''Blue Bayou'' was featured on the Disney’s Greatest Lullabies Part Two VHS.

''All the Cats Join In'', ''Two Silhouettes'', ''After You've Gone'' and ''The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met'' (along with Stokowski’s original recording of Claire de Lune) were featured on the VHS compilation ''The Wonderful World of Disney: Music for Everybody'' in 1986.

''Peter and the Wolf'' was first released on the Storybook Classics VHS in 1982 and eventually joined the Walt Disney Mini Classics series (along with ''Willie the Operatic Whale'') and the Favorite Stories collection.

''Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet'' was released on laserdisc in 1999 as part of The Disneyland Anthology 3 disc box-set, as it was a segment of the ''Adventures in Fantasy'' episode on side 5.

The actual film was released on VHS and DVD on June 6, 2000 under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection line. They edited this release to remove ''The Martins and the Coys'', which contained comic ]play that they deemed not suitable for children,<ref name="forum.blu-ray.com">{{Cite web|url=https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=301104&page=26|title=Saludos Amigos / The Three Caballeros (1942-1944) (75th Anniversary Edition) - Page 26 - Blu-ray Forum}}</ref> as well as editing out the sexualized imagery in ''All the Cats Join In''.

Outside of North America, ''Make Mine Music'' has been largely unavailable on DVD and VHS. It has, however, been available in Scandinavia on both VHS (1983) and DVD (2006) and since 2013 on DVD in the UK (unrestored, albeit with ''The Martins and the Coys'' intact, but still editing out the sexualized imagery in ''All the Cats Join In''). This and '']'' are the only two major Disney animated films never to see a release on Region 4 DVD in Australia; however, the latter did get a VHS release.

As of 2024, ''Make Mine Music'' is the only Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film that is not available on ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goldberg |first1=Matt |title=Disney+ Has Every Disney Animated Feature Except One, and It's a Surprising Omission |url=https://collider.com/disney-plus-missing-movie-make-mine-music/ |website=Collider |date=April 2021 |access-date=20 October 2022}}</ref>

Disney released ''Make Mine Music'' and '']'' for the first time ever on ], through their Disney Movie Club website on November 2, 2021. Despite explicit reports by Disney's customer service confirming this release would be uncut and mentioning that the release would include all ten musical segments, the actual discs contained the 2000 censored version of the film.

== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
The film grossed $70,000 in its first week at the ] in New York City.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=]|date=April 24, 1946|page=11|title=B'way Soars; 'Kid' Colossal $66,000, 'Music' Huge 70G, Both New Records; 'Virginian'-Bracken-Long Fancy 98G|url=https://archive.org/details/variety162-1946-04/page/n218/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=April 4, 2023|via=]}}</ref> It went on to earn $2,085,000 in ]s from the United States and Canada. Cumulatively, it earned $3,275,000 in worldwide rentals.<ref name="Jewell" />

=== Critical response ===
Abel Green of '']'' stated that "the animation, color and music, the swing versus symph, and the imagination, execution and delineation—that this Disney feature (two years in the making) may command widest attention yet. The blend of cartoon with human action has been evidenced before; here Disney has retained all his characters in their basic art form, but endowed them with human qualities, voices and treatments, which is another step forward in the field where cartoons graduate into the field of the classics."<ref>{{cite news|last=Green|first=Abel|url=https://archive.org/details/variety162-1946-04/page/n151/mode/2up|title=Film Reviews: Make Mine Music|page=16|work=Variety|date=April 17, 1946|access-date=September 21, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> '']'' felt that some of the shorts were "more entertaining than others, but all are good, and each has something to please movie-goers of all tastes and ages. It is a delightful blend of comedy, music, pathos, animation, and color, given a most imaginative treatment."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/harrisonsreports28harr#page/n73/mode/2up/|title=Make Mine Music|page=63|work=Harrison's Reports|date=April 20, 1946|access-date=September 21, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

], reviewing for '']'', praised the film as "a brilliant abstraction wherein fanciful musical instruments dance gayly on sliding color disks, sets of romping fingers race blithely down tapes of piano keys and musical notes fly wildly through the multi-hued atmosphere—all to the tingling accompaniment of Benny Goodman's quartet playing the ancient and melodious torch song, "After You're Gone". Color, form and music blend dynamically in this bit, and a rich stimulant of sensuous rhythm is excitingly achieved."<ref>{{cite news|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/22/archives/the-screen-in-review-make-mine-music-animated-cartoon-by-walt.html|title=The Screen in Review|work=The New York Times|date=April 22, 1946|access-date=September 21, 2020}}</ref> Edwin Schallert of the '']'' wrote that ''Make Mine Music'' was "a picture of much inventiveness and imagination. The lighter the picture is, the more is its excellence demonstrated, it might be noted. And while music is the keynote of the production, it ranges well into comedy, and plentifully into swing."<ref>Schallert, Edwin (April 17, 1946). "". '']''. Part II, p. 2. Retrieved September 21, 2020 – via ]. {{Open access}}</ref>

The film holds 58% rating on ], with an average score of {{RT data|average}}. The site's critical consensus reads, "This collection of musical-themed shorts doesn't reach the artistic heights of Fantasia, but it's well animated and mostly good fun."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/make_mine_music|title=Make Mine Music|website=]|publisher=]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref>

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1946 animated film by Walt Disney

Make Mine Music
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Story by
Based on"Casey at the Bat"
by Ernest Thayer
Peter and the Wolf
by Sergei Prokofiev
Produced byWalt Disney
Joe Grant
Starring
Music by
Production
company		Walt Disney Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • April 20, 1946 (1946-04-20) (New York City)
  • August 15, 1946 (1946-08-15) (United States)
Running time75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.35 million
Box office$3.275 million (worldwide rentals)

Make Mine Music is a 1946 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946.

During World War II, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

Film segments

This particular film has ten such segments.

The Martins and the Coys

The popular radio vocal group The King's Men sings the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains. The feud is broken up when Grace Martin and Henry Coy, two young people from each side, inadvertently fall in love.

Blue Bayou

This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia using the Claude Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque (conducted by Leopold Stokowski). It featured two egrets flying through the Everglades on a moonlit night. However, by the time Make Mine Music was released Clair de Lune was replaced by the new song Blue Bayou, performed by the Ken Darby Singers. However, the original version of the segment still survives.

All the Cats Join In

This segment was one of two sections in which Benny Goodman and his Orchestra contributed. Their music played over visuals drawn by an animator's pencil as the action occurred. The scene portrayed hepcat teens of the 1940s, being swept away by popular music. This segment features some mild female nudity that was edited out in both the US and UK DVD releases, although the film's Japanese home video releases features it intact and uncensored.

Without You

This segment is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.

Casey at the Bat

This segment featured Jerry Colonna, reciting the poem also titled "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer, about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing. The setting is 1902, in the town of Mudville. A few moments are exaggerated or altered and music is added. A sequel to this segment called Casey Bats Again was released on June 18, 1954 as theatrical short.

Two Silhouettes

This segment featured two rotoscoped live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. The dancers are accompanied by two putti, also in silhouette. Dinah Shore sang the title song.

Peter and the Wolf

The segment "Peter and the Wolf" is an animated dramatization of the 1936 musical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with narration by actor Sterling Holloway. A Russian boy named Peter sets off into the forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sascha, a duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan. Just like in Prokofiev's piece, each character is represented with a specific musical accompaniment: Peter by the String Quartet, Sascha by the Flute, Sonia by the Oboe, Ivan by the Clarinet, Grandpapa by the Bassoon, the Hunters through their gunfire by the Kettledrums, and the evil Wolf primarily by horns and cymbals.

After You've Gone

This segment again featured Benny Goodman and The Goodman Quartet (Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole and Sid Weiss) as six anthropomorphized instruments (Piano, Bass, Snare and bass Drums, Cymbal and Clarinet) who paraded through a musical playground.

Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet

This segment told the romantic story of two hats who fell in love in a department store window in New York City. When Alice Bluebonnet was sold, Johnnie Fedora devoted himself to finding her again. They eventually, by pure chance, meet up again and live happily ever after together, side by side. The Andrews Sisters provided the vocals. Like the other segments, it was later released theatrically. It was released as such on May 21, 1954.

Finale: The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met

The final segment, the finale of the film, is a bittersweet story about a sperm whale (named Willie) with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing grand opera. A rumor is spread throughout the city about an operatic whale, but is seemingly disproven, therefore the short-sighted impresario Tetti-Tatti believes that the whale has swallowed an opera singer. He concludes this after studying the story of Jonah.

Tetti-Tatti sets out to "rescue" his non-existent quarry, the newspapers announcing that he was going to sea. Whitey, Willie's seagull friend, excitedly brings Willie the newspaper, all of his friends believing that this is his big chance, so he goes out to meet the boat and sing for Tetti-Tatti. He finds them, and upon hearing Willie sing, Tetti-Tatti comes to believe that Willie has swallowed not one, but three singers (due to his having three uvulas, each with a different voice range; tenor, baritone and bass), and chases him with a harpoon on a boat with three crewmen. Upon hearing the whale sing, the crewmen try to stop the stubborn and deluded Tetti-Tatti from killing the whale, as they want to continue listening to him sing, even to the point of pinning Tetti-Tatti down by sitting on him. A montage then follows of what would be Willie's future career in performing opera on the stage of the Met, with Tetti-Tatti shown to have finally been convinced. In the end, reality strikes when Tetti-Tatti succeeds in harpooning and killing Willie which causes the three sailors to beat him up afterwards, but the narrator then explains that Willie's voice (now in a thousand, each more golden than before) will sing on in heaven, ironically still achieving his dream after all; the final shot is of the Pearly gates with a "sold out" sign. Nelson Eddy narrated and performed all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sang, among others, Shortnin' Bread, "Largo al factotum" from The Barber of Seville, all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen from Friedrich Wilhelm Riese's opera Martha.

As the curtains close, the film ends.

Cast

Actor Role(s)
Nelson Eddy Narrator; characters (The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met)
Dinah Shore Singer (Two Silhouettes)
Benny Goodman Musician (All the Cats Join In/After You've Gone)
The Andrews Sisters Singers (Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet)
Jerry Colonna Narrator (Casey at the Bat)
Sterling Holloway Narrator (Peter and the Wolf)
Andy Russell Singer (Without You)
David Lichine Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
Tania Riabouchinskaya Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
The Pied Pipers Singers (All the Cats Join In)
The King's Men Singers (The Martins and the Coys)
The Ken Darby Singers Singers (Blue Bayou)

Music

No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
1."Make Mine Music"Ken Darby & Eliot DanielDisney Studio Chorus 
2."The Martins and the Coys"Al Cameron & Ted WeemsThe King's Men 
3."Blue Bayou"Bobby Worth & Ray GilbertThe Ken Darby Singers 
4."All the Cats Join In"Alec Wilder & Ray GilbertBenny Goodman and His Orchestra 
5."Without You"Ray GilbertAndy Russell 
6."Casey at the Bat"Ray Gilbert, Ken Darby & Eliot DanielJerry Colonna 
7."Two Silhouettes"Charles Wolcott & Ray GilbertDinah Shore 
8."Peter and the Wolf"Sergei ProkofievSterling Holloway 
9."After You've Gone"Turner Layton & Henry CreamerBenny Goodman & The Goodman Quartet 
10."Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet"Allie Wrubel & Ray GilbertThe Andrews Sisters 

Release

Make Mine Music was initially released in theaters in 1946. Like many other package features of the 1940s, it was never given a wide theatrical reissue. Instead, its distinct segments were separated and released as separate short films or used as segments in Disney television programmes.

Home media

Make Mine Music was originally released on home video in Japan on October 21, 1985. All of its segments (except for Without You and The Martins and the Coys) had been released on home video in the US since they were shown on The Magical World of Disney television series and/or released only as shorts.

Casey at the Bat was featured on the VHS release of Disney's Tall Tales in 1985.

Blue Bayou was featured on the Disney’s Greatest Lullabies Part Two VHS.

All the Cats Join In, Two Silhouettes, After You've Gone and The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met (along with Stokowski’s original recording of Claire de Lune) were featured on the VHS compilation The Wonderful World of Disney: Music for Everybody in 1986.

Peter and the Wolf was first released on the Storybook Classics VHS in 1982 and eventually joined the Walt Disney Mini Classics series (along with Willie the Operatic Whale) and the Favorite Stories collection.

Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet was released on laserdisc in 1999 as part of The Disneyland Anthology 3 disc box-set, as it was a segment of the Adventures in Fantasy episode on side 5.

The actual film was released on VHS and DVD on June 6, 2000 under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection line. They edited this release to remove The Martins and the Coys, which contained comic gunplay that they deemed not suitable for children, as well as editing out the sexualized imagery in All the Cats Join In.

Outside of North America, Make Mine Music has been largely unavailable on DVD and VHS. It has, however, been available in Scandinavia on both VHS (1983) and DVD (2006) and since 2013 on DVD in the UK (unrestored, albeit with The Martins and the Coys intact, but still editing out the sexualized imagery in All the Cats Join In). This and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad are the only two major Disney animated films never to see a release on Region 4 DVD in Australia; however, the latter did get a VHS release.

As of 2024, Make Mine Music is the only Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film that is not available on Disney+.

Disney released Make Mine Music and Melody Time for the first time ever on Blu-ray, through their Disney Movie Club website on November 2, 2021. Despite explicit reports by Disney's customer service confirming this release would be uncut and mentioning that the release would include all ten musical segments, the actual discs contained the 2000 censored version of the film.

Reception

Box office

The film grossed $70,000 in its first week at the Globe Theatre in New York City. It went on to earn $2,085,000 in theatrical rentals from the United States and Canada. Cumulatively, it earned $3,275,000 in worldwide rentals.

Critical response

Abel Green of Variety stated that "the animation, color and music, the swing versus symph, and the imagination, execution and delineation—that this Disney feature (two years in the making) may command widest attention yet. The blend of cartoon with human action has been evidenced before; here Disney has retained all his characters in their basic art form, but endowed them with human qualities, voices and treatments, which is another step forward in the field where cartoons graduate into the field of the classics." Harrison's Reports felt that some of the shorts were "more entertaining than others, but all are good, and each has something to please movie-goers of all tastes and ages. It is a delightful blend of comedy, music, pathos, animation, and color, given a most imaginative treatment."

Bosley Crowther, reviewing for The New York Times, praised the film as "a brilliant abstraction wherein fanciful musical instruments dance gayly on sliding color disks, sets of romping fingers race blithely down tapes of piano keys and musical notes fly wildly through the multi-hued atmosphere—all to the tingling accompaniment of Benny Goodman's quartet playing the ancient and melodious torch song, "After You're Gone". Color, form and music blend dynamically in this bit, and a rich stimulant of sensuous rhythm is excitingly achieved." Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Make Mine Music was "a picture of much inventiveness and imagination. The lighter the picture is, the more is its excellence demonstrated, it might be noted. And while music is the keynote of the production, it ranges well into comedy, and plentifully into swing."

The film holds 58% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This collection of musical-themed shorts doesn't reach the artistic heights of Fantasia, but it's well animated and mostly good fun."

See also

References

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  2. Stengel, Fred (September 12, 1945). "14 RKO Pictures to Exceed Million in Prod. Cost in Coming 'Year of Years'". Variety. p. 4 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (1). 1994.
  4. "Festival de Cannes: Make Mine Music". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
  5. Hischak, Thomas S.; Robinson, Mark A. (2013). The Disney Song Encyclopedia (2 ed.). Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 9781589797130.
  6. ^ "Saludos Amigos / The Three Caballeros (1942-1944) (75th Anniversary Edition) - Page 26 - Blu-ray Forum".
  7. "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet" (in French). Retrieved December 3, 2010.
  8. Goldberg, Matt (April 2021). "Disney+ Has Every Disney Animated Feature Except One, and It's a Surprising Omission". Collider. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  9. "B'way Soars; 'Kid' Colossal $66,000, 'Music' Huge 70G, Both New Records; 'Virginian'-Bracken-Long Fancy 98G". Variety. April 24, 1946. p. 11. Retrieved April 4, 2023 – via Archive.org.
  10. Green, Abel (April 17, 1946). "Film Reviews: Make Mine Music". Variety. p. 16. Retrieved September 21, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  11. "Make Mine Music". Harrison's Reports. April 20, 1946. p. 63. Retrieved September 21, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  12. Crowther, Bosley (April 22, 1946). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  13. Schallert, Edwin (April 17, 1946). "'Make Mine Music' Hits Peak in Musical Whimsy". Los Angeles Times. Part II, p. 2. Retrieved September 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  14. "Make Mine Music". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 31, 2024. Edit this at Wikidata

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