Saludos Amigos (1942)

Academy Awards, USA 1944

Nominee Oscar	Best Sound, Recording C.O. Slyfield (Walt Disney SSD)
	Best Music, Original Song Charles Wolcott (music) Ned Washington (lyrics) For the song "Saludos Amigos".
	Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Edward H. Plumb Paul J. Smith Charles Wolcott

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Norman Ferguson, et al
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)

Walt Disney and a group of his artists and musicians travel to South America for inspiration and friendship. Lake Titicaca inspires a segment with Donald Duck as a tourist; their air travel inspires an anthropomorphic airplane that must overcome obstacles to deliver the mail across the Andes; gauchos in Argentina inspire a Goofy cartoon; and the Brazilian parrot inspires a new character named Jose Carioca. It's a hit or miss affair, with the watercolor backgrounds of the final segment the only standout. The live action connecting footage provides and opportunity to spot Walt continuously smoking and the appearance of some of the more obscure names in Disney lore such as Mary Blair and Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy. An accompanying bonus feature has even more of this footage.