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Melody Time 1948 Disney Animated Film



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ABOUT THE DISNEY MELODY TIME MOVIE


Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): Le temps d'une mélodie, Mélodie Cocktail, Lo scrigno delle sette perle, Disneys 10 Melody Time, Säveltuokio, メロディ・タイム, Cante com Disney, Melodia, Tempo de Melodia


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Melody Time plot from IMDb: "An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music."


Melody Time trailer on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040580/


Cast and Characters:

Roy Rogers – Himself; Narrator; Singer (Pecos Bill)

Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies – Himself

Dennis Day – Narrator; Singer; Characters (Johnny Appleseed)

The Andrews Sisters – Singers (Little Toot)[14]

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians – Singers (Trees)

Freddy Martin – Music composer (Bumble Boogie)

Ethel Smith – Organist (Blame It On the Samba)

Frances Langford – Singer (Once Upon a Wintertime)

Buddy Clark – Singer; Narrator

Bob Nolan – Himself; Singer; Narrator (Pecos Bill)

Sons of the Pioneers – Themselves; Singers; Narrators (Pecos Bill)

The Dinning Sisters – Singers (Blame It On the Samba)

Bobby Driscoll – Himself (Pecos Bill)

Luana Patten – Herself (Pecos Bill)


Directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Produced by Walt Disney

Written by Winston Hibler, Harry Reeves, Ken Anderson, Erdman Penner, Homer Brightman Ted Sears, Joe Rinaldi, Bill Cottrell, Jesse Marsh, Art Scott, Bob Moore, John Walbridge

Music by Eliot Daniel, Paul J. Smith, Ken Darby

Edited by Donald Halliday, Thomas Scott

Production company: Walt Disney Productions

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Release date: May 27, 1948

Running time: 75 minutes

Budget: $1.5 million

Box office: $2,560,000 (worldwide rentals)


Melody Time Songs:

Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length

1. "Melody Time" George David Weiss & Bennie Benjamin Buddy Clark

2. "Once Upon a Wintertime" Bobby Worth & Ray Gilbert Frances Langford

3. "Bumble Boogie" Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (writer), Jack Fina (arranger) Freddy Martin and His Orchestra & Jack Fina (piano)

4. "Johnny Appleseed" Kim Gannon & Walter Kent Dennis Day

5. "Little Toot" Allie Wrubel The Andrews Sisters

6. "Trees" Joyce Kilmer (poem) & Oscar Rasbach (music) Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians

7. "Blame It on the Samba" Ernesto Nazareth & Ray Gilbert Ethel Smith & The Dinning Sisters

8. "Pecos Bill" Eliot Daniel & Johnny Lange Roy Rogers & The Sons of the Pioneers

9. "Blue Shadows on the Trail" Eliot Daniel & Johnny Lange Roy Rogers & The Sons of the Pioneers

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