Saludos Amigos facts for kids

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 movie that takes place in Latin America, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, 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 movie premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It got mixed reviews and was only rereleased once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first rerelease of Dumbo.

Its title in Spanish means, "Hello, Friends". This was the first Disney animated feature to be shown in South America before it was shown in the USA. At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.

Segments

The movie features four different parts, or segments. Each of them begin with different clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery:

• In Lake Titicaca, American tourist Donald Duck visits the Lake Titicaca and meets with some of the local yokels, including a llama.

• Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with almost disastrous results.

• In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Uruguayan pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the movie's video release, to get rid of one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.

• Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the movie, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").

Cast

• Lee Blair - Himself
• Mary Blair - Herself
• Pinto Colvig - Goofy
• Walt Disney - Himself
• Norman Ferguson - Himself
• Frank Graham - Himself
• Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
• José Oliveira - José Carioca
• Fred Shields - Narrator
• Frank Thomas - Himself

Worldwide release dates

Country	Premiere
Brazil	August 24, 1942
Argentina	October 6, 1942
United States	February 6, 1943
Greece	June 13, 1943
United Kingdom	December 6, 1943
Australia	February 10, 1944
Portugal	April 8, 1944
Ireland	May 19, 1944
Sweden	March 18, 1946
Italy	September 19, 1946
France	February 12, 1947
Hong Kong	December 18, 1947
Netherlands	August 27, 1948
Denmark	June 18, 1949
Norway	June 18, 1949
Argentina in  Chile	December 1, 1950
West Germany	March 17, 1953
Finland	April 17, 1953
Austria	March 26, 1954
Japan	March 15, 1957
South Korea	October 31, 1959

Titles in other 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
• Japanese: ラテン・アメリカの旅 (Raten Amerika no Tabi, Journey to the Latin America)
• Norwegian: Saludos Amigos
• Portuguese: Alô, Amigos
• Spanish: Saludos Amigos
• Swedish: Saludos Amigos (also known as Kalle Anka och Långben i Sydamerika)

Images for kids

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  Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (1940)

See also

In Spanish: Saludos amigos para niños