Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Melody Time (1948), 5 Color

An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.
1h 15min | Animation, Family, Music | 27 May 1948 | Color
Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, The Andrews Sisters, Ethel Smith, Frances Langford

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040580/
Watched online, good print.

Not improving my opinion of Disney animation with this one. On IMDb, 3700+ people give this an average rating of 6.5. Of 51 music/al Disney animation features ranked by rating, this ranks 41st.

Some of the humans aren't just voices, they appear onscreen, and some have animation drawn around them too.

Another pastel nightmare with an infinite keyboard chasing a bumble bee, keyboard playing a jazzed-up Flight of the Bumble Bee. Very similar to a prior Disney segment I didn't like, but not re-using the same animation. They're just "borrowing" from themselves.

Disney, distr. RKO; 5