Title: Saludos Amigos
Release Date: August 24, 1942
Director: Norman Ferguson | Wilfred Jackson | Jack Kinney | Hamilton Luske | Bill Roberts
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Summary/Review:
Saludos Amigos is the first of the package films Disney released in the 1940s, and due to the random order of my viewing, the last I watched. This movie is most directly connected to the Walt Disney company’s goodwill tour of Latin America in 1941, and features full-color documentary footage of Disney artists traveling by plane around South America.
The short film features four segments, one each set in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. “Lake Titicaca” features Donald Duck visiting the titular lake as a tourist. “Pedro” is the story of young airplane making his first flight to collect the mail in a journey over the Andes. In “El Gaucho Goofy” the American cowboy and the Argentian gaucho are compared and contrasted. The final and best segment, “Aquarela do Brasil,” introduces José Carioca, who teaches Donald Duck to dance the samba. Amazingly enough, the famous title song was only a few years old at the time this movie was made, and Disney actually made it popular in the United States!
The film is slight, but enjoyable enough, especially the music.
Rating: ***
Panorama of the Mountains 
Beautiful childhood memories. Thank you! 😊
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