Three caballeros
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Three caballeros |
| Original title | The Three Caballeros |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts |
| script | James Bodrero, Homer Brightman, Del Connell, William Cottrell , Bill Peet , Elmer Plummer, Ted Sears, Ernest Terrazzas, Roy Williams, Ralph Wright |
| music |
Paul J. Smith Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb , Ary Barroso |
| camera | Fred Moore, Les Clark , Milt Kahl , Wolfgang Reitherman , Ward Kimball , Eric Larson , John Lounsbery , Joshua Meador, Mary Blair , Kenneth Anderson |
| occupation | |
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Speakers in English, German
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Three Caballeros , originally titled Donald conquered Mexico published, is an American animated film of Directors Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney and Bill Roberts from the year 1944 . It is the seventh full-length animated feature film from Walt Disney Studios . It is viewed as a " package movie " because separate segments are made up of the film. Due to its partly surrealistic and comic-like sequences, Drei Caballeros is stylistically more reminiscent of cartoons than of the realistic full-length animated films.
This film is an indirect sequel to Three Caballeros in Samba Fever , even if Donald Duck and José Carioca are only two characters in both films. The Mexican rooster Panchito makes its first appearance in Three Caballeros . The premiere in Germany was on December 14, 1954.
action
Donald Duck receives a package from his "South American friends" for his birthday. There are three other, smaller packages in this large birthday package. The first package he opens contains a movie projector, plus a screen and a movie. After Donald has painstakingly set up the device, he plays a short film called Aves Raras (Rare Birds). In a kind of documentation style, he makes a foray through the South American jungle , in which some birds live, whose behavior Donald entertains the viewer deliciously. The bird Aracuan makes his first acquaintance with Donald during the film. In addition, the story of the penguin Pablo is told, for whom it is too cold in his home country.
Next up is a film about the "little gauchito". The story of a boy who caught a flying donkey is told by himself, as an adult voiceover. The second gift that Donald opens is a Brazilian pop-up book , which includes his friend José Carioca. He invites Donald on a trip to Baía , a city that you can also reach via the pop-up book, but to which José Donald has to shrink first. When they arrive in Baía, the two friends meet Aurora Miranda ( Carmen Miranda's younger sister ) and immediately fall in love with her. Aurora and the other residents of Baía, like the Mexicans who appear later in the film, are real people.
As a last gift, Donald and José (again in original size) open a large package. Loud music can be heard and a soundtrack appears, into which Donald later gets into. Finally the soundtrack explodes, and Panchito appears with a loud bang, who immediately fires some welcome shots with his two pistols. Then he hands Donald and José (whom he apparently already knows, they do not introduce themselves, and all three immediately address each other by name) each with a sombrero and sing the song "Three Caballeros". At the end of this surrealistic sequence Donald and José try in vain to silence Panchito, who holds the last note for a very long time. Panchito disappears and reappears shortly afterwards. He conjures up a large piñata for Donald to smash (after Panchito explains what piñatas are all about). There are many other gifts in the piñata, including a huge book about Mexico and a magic carpet. Using these two objects, the three friends travel through Mexico, listen to Mexican music, dance folk dances and flirt with beautiful ladies.
Back at Donald's home, they look at pictures of the starry sky over Mexico, with a woman appearing in the sky and singing You Belong to My Heart . Donald falls in love straight away and jumps into the book. A colorful and crazy sequence of images and music follows, at the end of which Donald, José and Panchito re-enact a bullfight with an artificial bull. A large fireworks display is set off and the words "The End" (in Spanish, Portuguese and English) appear.
Production history
The initial spark for Drei Caballeros is undoubtedly the “Good Will Tour” that Walt Disney undertook on behalf of Nelson Rockefeller , the coordinator for inter-American relations. The reason was that the US government feared that the National Socialists could exert increasing influence on the Latin American states. The government hoped that Walt Disney, who was already very popular in South America, could act as ambassador for the United States and thus create a better understanding between the different peoples.
The journey of Disney and some of its employees took place in 1941 and led to Brazil , Argentina , Chile and Peru . Disney ordered the trip not just to be a handshake, he hoped that his illustrators would find inspiration for new films. The State Department took out a guarantee of up to 50,000 dollars for the individual films, with which it wanted to finance them if they should become unprofitable for Disney. The first result of this tour was Saludos Amigos (1943). “Drei Caballeros” followed a year later: the world premiere was on December 21, 1944 in Mexico City, and the film then celebrated its US premiere on February 3 of the following year. Both films are based on the color and concept design by Mary Blair .
Production was interrupted several times because many draftsmen had to be ordered to do commissioned work and also because the color film was running out. Despite these circumstances, “Three Caballeros” became a work of which the draftsmen were proud. It gave them a change of pace from the educational and propaganda films and was generally well received: Ward Kimball , who is quite critical of his own work, said that "Three Caballeros" was the only film he did with what he was doing is completely satisfied and has a lot of fun.
The mixed sequences between animation and actors were created by Ub Iwerks , who was to perfect this technique over the years. For the music and some of the human roles, Walt Disney hired Latin celebrities, a decision that was very well received.
"Drei Caballeros" was only performed once in the USA. In contrast to other "Walt Disney masterpieces" there were no re-releases. Instead, some segments have been detached from the film in order to be released as stand-alone short films. As a 16mm film roll , "Three Caballeros" found a large fan base in university film circles, similar to Fantasia , Alice in Wonderland and the non-Disney film Yellow Submarine .
Further information
- "Caballero" is Spanish and means something like "lord", "gentleman", "cavalier", "knight" or "rider".
- After this film, José Carioca and Panchito became great comic stars in their “home countries”.
- You Belong to My Heart was also used in the 1947 cartoon Pluto's Blue Note and recorded by Bing Crosby .
- The song Baia (also Bahia , completely Na Baixa do Sapateiro ) written by one of the most popular Brazilian composers, Ary Barroso, sung here by Aurora Miranda, was also part of the repertoire of Bing Crosby and many other singers, such as Caterina Valente . Already in the previous film Three Caballeros in Samba Fever , a music title by Ary Barroso was used and the world hit: Brazil (long title: Aquarela do Brasil ).
- Don Rosa is a big fan of the film, which is why he wrote the comic sequels "The Three Caballeros" and "The Magnificent Seven (minus four) Caballeros". This is especially noteworthy because otherwise Rosa has little love for Disney's cartoons and is primarily considered an admirer of Carl Barks ' Scrooge McDuck comics.
- In the Spanish version, Clarence Nash gave Donald an American accent in order to harmonize with the Mexican and Brazilian accents of his film partners.
- There is a German version of the Spanish song Three Caballeros in the film on one of the “ Sing with us ” videos.
- To date, a soundtrack album for the film has only been released once in Mexico.
- Of all the package movies, "Three Caballeros" is the one most alluded to in other Disney productions. The three Caballeros are particularly common in Mickey's clubhouse .
- Due to his South American appearances in Don Donald , Three Caballeros in Samba Fever , Melody Dance Rhythm and Three Caballeros , it was decided to let Donald Duck play the part of the representative of Latin America at the Imaginations Parade at Disneyland Resort Paris .
Reviews
“ The Three Caballeros is probably the most original long Disney film next to Fantasia (1940). (...) The colors are extremely colorful, and the grandiose optical ideas are literally overturning. The most exciting thing, however, is the masterful combination of real and trick shots, that is, of human actors and drawn figures. The very peculiar mixture of Latin American romanticism and cartoon humor culminates here in some sequences that are unparalleled in madness in film history: for example, when Donald repeatedly tries in vain to kiss a singer, or when he is with the girls on the beach in Acapulco Blind man plays. "
"Colorfully moved and very imaginative, but on the whole too unbounded to keep interest alive for long."
literature
- Leonard Maltin : The Disney Films. 3rd edition, 384 pp. Hyperion, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7868-8137-2 .
- Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston : Disney Animation. The Illusion of Life. 575 S. Abbeville Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-89659-698-2 .
- Christopher Finch : Walt Disney. His life - his art. (Original title: The Art of Walt Disney. From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms ). German by Renate Witting. (Limited exclusive edition.) Ehapa-Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, 457 pages, ISBN 3-7704-0171-9 , (current English-language edition: The Art of Walt Disney. From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms. Abrams, New York 2004, 504 pp., ISBN 0-8109-4964-4 .)
Web links
- Three Caballeros in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
- Lyrics of Na Baixa do Sapateiro
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Tichy , Liz-Anne Bawden : rororo Filmlexikon. Volume 3: Films T - Z. (OT: The Oxford Companion to Film ). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-16230-X , p. 665.
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 79.
