
Some things never ch– wait, did the pencil just make that girl’s butt and thighs smaller so that the boy would want to dance with her?!
Boy, these crazy teenagers with their wild music and fast cars! They grow up so fast. “The what? I don’t remember this one being sexy. “Ohhhhhh,” says the Fella, remembering suddenly, “this is the sexy one!” I scrunched up my nose. “Oh, a ‘jazz interlude,’ eh? Well, we’ll see about tha–BENNY GOODMAN? Oh HECK yes, this’ll be good.”. You can totally tell this is leftover from Fantasia. Let the record show that the Fella got up to get our Texas Toast out of the toaster oven and when he came back the egret/heron/crane/whatever was still in the exact same position. It’s about a bird (later, two birds) flying through a bayou. This is the animated story of nothing. This segment initially started off the film but the copy we have did not include it. Most of the segments in the film were later released theatrically as precursors to other films or included in television broadcasts, separate from the rest of the film’s segments. Outside of North America, this film is largely unavailable on DVD or VHS. It was later replaced with the song “Blue Bayou” and included in this film instead. Segment two, “Blue Bayou” used to be backed by the famous Debussy piano piece, “Claire de Lune” and was originally intended for Fantasia. Also, Sterling Holloway: King of Voice Acting. Popular radio voices and musical groups featured in the film include: King’s Men, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman, Ken Darby singers, and the Andrews Sisters. The first segment, “The Martins and the Coys” was later removed because of excessive violence. It received mixed to positive reviews initially, but it was submitted to the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. There were so many unfinished ideas lying around the studio that a number of ‘package films’ were released, including this one, and the previous two, The Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos. Many of the animators for Disney were drafted in WWII. Basically, I can’t wait till we get to the 1950s. We had aimed to do milkshakes for dessert but were absolutely too full to even entertain the thought of continuing with that plan, so we sat down and watched the next film in the Disney Odyssey, which was a roller coaster of sense-memory peaks and furrowed-brow valleys. This week will be filled with leftovers – in the best way possible.
The whole thing was a) too much food and b) completely insanely delicious.
Monday night’s dinner consisted of grilled lemon pepper chicken, couscous with black beans and corn, and steamed veggies (onion, red pepper, zucchini, leek).