Move Monday: Make Music Mine

Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. During the Second World War, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.

-The Martins and the Coys featured popular radio vocal group, King's Men singing the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fell in love. This segment was later cut from the film's video release due to comic gunplay.

-Blue Bayou featured animation originally intended for Fantasia using the Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune.

 

-All the Cats Join In was one of two segments to which Benny Goodman contributed. An innovative shot in which a pencil drew the action as it was happening, and in which 1940s teens were swept away by popular music.

 

   

-Without You was a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.

-Casey at the Bat featured Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem by Ernest Thayer, about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.

-Two Silhouettes featured two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. Dinah Shore sang the title song.

-Peter and the Wolf was an animated dramatization of the 1936 musical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with narration by actor Sterling Holloway. A Russian boy named Peter set off into the forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sasha, a duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan.

 

-After You've Gone again featured Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphized instruments who paraded through a musical playground.

-Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett told the romantic story of two hats who fell in love in a department store window. When Alice was sold, Johnny devoted himself to finding her again. The Andrews Sisters provided the vocals.

-The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met was the bittersweet finale about a Whale with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. A mysterious operatic voice is heard by mariners far out at sea. Professor Tetti Tatti goes to investigate and finds Willie, singing beautifully, sometimes with three voices at once. But the Professor assumes he has swallowed an opera singer, who he proceeds to try to rescue. Nelson Eddy narrated and performed all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sang all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. In the end Willie was harpooned and killed, but the narrator softened the blow by telling the viewers that he sang on in heaven.

 

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Pictures and Information from Disney Shorts

Resort Round-Up: Disney’s Ambassador Hotel

Opening July 20, 2000, Disney’s Ambassador Hotel was the first ‘official’ Disney Hotel to open in the Tokyo Disney Resort, but was the sixth overall hotel to open. It was licensed under the Walt Disney Company, but is managed by the Oriental Land Company. It's Art Deco style takes an early Hollywood theme, its theme is very similar to Hong Kong Disneyland’s Hollywood Hotel.

The hotel features several room types:

-Standard Room
-Superior Room
-Triple Room
-Donald Duck Room—they face the ‘Palm Garden Pool’, everything has ‘Donald Duck’ colors
-Deluxe Room
-Family Room

There are also a variety of hotel Suites:

-Garden Suites
-Panorama Suites
-Fantasia Suites
-Mickey’s Premiere Suite
-Mickey’s Penthouse Suite

The hotel has many restaurants and lounges throughout, including:

-Chef Mickey--The Disney characters come to greet you at your table at this casual, buffet-style restaurant. Feast on just what you like and have a great time with your family.
-Empire Grill--The hotel’s premier restaurant takes the essences of styles such as Italian, Mexican and Asian cooking and uses them to create a sophisticated California-style cuisine.
-Restaurant Hana-- A refined Japanese restaurant offering Kaiseki course menus, Teppan-yaki grill dishes and other seasonal delicacies.
-Tick Tock Diner-- Styled after a 1950s diner, this is the place to stop for some coffee, soup, or an original sandwich.
-Hyperion Lounge-- The art deco interior lends this lounge a refined atmosphere, with the player piano from the lobby adding a special ambience.

As opposed to the rest of Tokyo Disney Resort, the Ambassador Hotel has many pins, and for every anniversary a series of pins is released. Each year every restaurant celebrates the anniversary, and the hotel has a big event.

     

     

     

     

    

      

Several pins use the Art Deco style of the hotel and reflect it, like the early years Mickey and Minnie below.

Most of the restaurants don't have pins, but Chef Mickey does. The restaurant is similar to Chef Mickey’s at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort. 

This post is part of the Disney Blog Carnival. Head over there to see more great Disney-related posts and articles. (http://dismarks.com/blog/disney-blog-carnival-9)

Pictures and Information from Official Tokyo Disney Resort and Pin Pics

Tony’s Town Square Restaurant: A Review

On my most recent trip to Walt Disney World, I thought that I’d try out a well-known restaurant in the Magic Kingdom, Tony’s Town Square Restaurant, though it’s not known for many good reasons. It has many mixed reviews and I thought I’d give it a try, head on over to the Disney Food Blog to check out my review of the restaurant.

Have you eaten in Tony’s before? Good? Bad? Be sure to stop by Disney Food Blog’s comment section to add your thoughts.

Happy 41st Anniversary Mansion!

Last year on Global Disney Pinvestigation we decided to do a Month of Mansion in honor of The Haunted Mansion’s 40th Anniversary. It debuted on the Mansion’s 40th Anniversary, August 9th, 2009, and ran till September 9, 2009 (Happy Haunts Day).

So in beginning a Mansion ‘Tradition’ (even though I’m the farthest thing from a Haunted Mansion Fan), I thought I’d be interesting to repost the series links here incase you missed it or you just want to see them again. So may I present to you, GDP’s First Major Series: Month of Haunted Mansion.

We stared off with a Commemorative post, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Attraction, in pins in 40 Grim Grinning Years.

The next day, we started our in-depth look at the attraction beginning with the most important thing in the attraction, The DoomBuggy. We then explored the beginning ideas and concepts of the attraction in Haunted Orgins. A ride through of the attraction was presented in The Story of 999 Happy Haunts.

Throughout the rest of the month we explored the history and stories behind each of the four Haunted Mansion attractions around the world, through it’s History, Pictures, and Pins:

Haunted History of New Orleans Square
Pics and Pins of the Original Hauntings
Haunted Kingdom: A History of the Magic Kingdom’s Mansion
Pics and Pins of a Colonial Mansion
History of Mysterious Mansion in Fantasyland
Haunted Stories: A Phantom in the Manor
Pics and Pins of Phamous Phantoms
Pinvestigation: Mansions of the Future

Between the various posts on the Haunted Mansions around the world, we took an in depth look at many of the Mansions characters and signature items (like Portraits and Tombstones) in our signature segment, Pics and Pins:

Tombstones and Gravesites
Haunted Portraits
Master Gracey
Many Madam Leotas
The Duelers
The Mansions Many Brides 
The Phantom Five
The Caretaker
The Hitchhiking Ghosts—Part One & Part Two

We finished our Character In-depth Looks with a look at a character not seen by many, but loved by all, in a Retro Lookback of The Hatbox Ghost.

In our final post for Month of Mansion, we took a pictorial look through the attraction celebrating Happy Haunts Day (09-09-09), with our Happy Haunts Day posting.

Happy 41st Anniversary Haunted Mansion!