Saludos Amigos

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{{Infobox Film | name = Saludos Amigos| | image = saludosposter.jpg| | director = Norman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske
Bill Roberts | writer = Homer Brightman
William Cottrell
Dick Huemer
Joe Grant
Harry Reeves
Ted Sears
Webb Smith
Roy Williams
Ralph Wright | starring = Lee Blair
Mary Blair
Pinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Norman Ferguson
Frank Graham
Clarence Nash
José Oliviera
Fred Shields
Frank Thomas | producer = Walt Disney | released = February 6, 1943 | runtime = 43 min. | language = English/Portuguese | imdb_id = 0036326

 | preceded_by = Bambi (1942)
 | followed_by = The Three Caballeros (1945)

}}

Saludos Amigos is the sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was released in 1942, produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca. Saludos Amigos was popular enough for a sequel, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later. The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It garnered mixed reviews and was only reissued once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of Dumbo. It did feature material suitable for TV airings, though.

1 Film segments
2 Titles in different languages
3 Trivia
4 Cast
5 External links

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Film segments

This film features four different segments, each of which beginning with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing up cartoon drawings of some of the local cultures and scenery:

Lake Titicaca had Donald Duck, an American tourist, visit the title location and meet with some of the local yokels, including an obstinate llama.

Pedro involved the title character, a small airplane from Chile, engage in his very first flight and pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.

El Gaucho Goofy had Goofy, an American cowboy, get taken mysteriously to the Argentine pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the film's video release to remove one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.

Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the film, involved a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introduce him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico Tico").

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Titles in different languages

Chinese: 致候吾友
Dutch: Saludos Amigos
Finnish: Oppituniti
French: Saludos Amigos
German: Saludos Amigos (also known as Die Drei Caballeros Im Sambafieber)
Italian: Saludos Amigos
Norwegian: Saludos Amigos
Portuguese: Alô, Amigos
Spanish: Saludos Amigos
Swedish: Saludos Amigos (also known as Kalle Anka och Långben i Sydamerika)

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Trivia

The film's title means, "Hello, Friends".

This was the first Disney Animated feature to be shown in South America before it was screened in the USA.

At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.

The title song for this movie makes a brief appearance in its follow-up, The Three Caballeros, as underscoring.

Gaucho is the denomination for cowboys in Argentina.

The DVD release has been edited to current cultural attitudes towards family films. There is a scene in which Goofy is sitting, dressed as a cowboy. He tips his hat then inhales from a cigarette and then exhales smoke before he is suddenly pulled away. The DVD features him tipping his hat and then sitting still with his arm extended. [1]

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The character Pedro was taken as an offense by various Chileans; among them was the comic book artist René Ríos (a.k.a. Pepo), who answered by creating Condorito, a current Chilean pop icon.

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