A painfully dull documentary on Walt Disney’s trip to South America. This nearly 2 hour doc would have been much more interesting as a half hour featurette.
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Σκηνοθεσία Theodore Thomas
Walt & El Grupo
Ρεαλιστικό, πολυπρόσωπο ντοκιμαντέρ
Το 1941, η κυβέρνηση των ΗΠΑ ζήτησε από τον Γουόλτ Ντίσνεϊ και μια ομάδα καλλιτεχνών του να ταξιδέψουν στη Νότια Αμερική στο πλαίσιο της «Πολιτικής Καλής Γειτονίας». Το ντοκιμαντέρ καταγράφει αυτό το ταξίδι δέκα εβδομάδων και την επιρροή που άσκησε στο μετέπειτα έργο των καλλιτεχνών.
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A painfully dull documentary on Walt Disney’s trip to South America. This nearly 2 hour doc would have been much more interesting as a half hour featurette.
I'm a sucker for the history of the Walt Disney company, and the trip that inspired The Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos deserves more publicity. But I'm not sure this movie earns its length. A 107-minute documentary about Disney and a handful of animators traveling around South America in 1941 is just too much, especially considering the slightness of a far more exceptional Disney doc, Waking Sleeping Beauty. It's not bad--some of the talking heads who aren't directly affiliated with Disney were clearly not unconditionally in love with Saludos Amigos, and show it--but too slight.Also, on a nitpicky level, director Theodore Thomas makes a strange choice of cutting to a black screen to introduce each talking head, ruining the visual flow of the first third of the film, especially. Just...no.
there sure was a lot of talk about Walt Disney (not) being posthumously frozen here for a movie that had literally NOTHING to do with that
The documentary chronicles the 1941 goodwill tour of South America undertaken by Walt Disney and his hand-picked team of artists, known as "El Grupo," at the request of the United States government.
Theodore Thomas directed this documentary in 2008, drawing on his extensive experience with archival film history.