Make Mine Music.

 

                                            Make Mine Music.

This movie is amazing cause it shows just how powerful music can be no 

matter what kind it is. Back in the 40's and 50's companies didn't want 

to include the music from other races or countries if fear of making there 

audiences not want to come to the movies, back then it was all out 

making money but it should have been including everyone no matter 

what race or religion you were. This movie proves that every kind of 

music is magic. I really hope you find this movie and watch it with that 

whole family cause it breaks down walls and shows that we are all 

together as one, plus the music is amazing and the animation in it is 

some of the best Disney has ever done. So, with that, lets get to the story 

shall we:

This  film has ten  segments.

The Martins and the Coys

The popular radio vocal group The King's Men sings the story of 

a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when 2 

young people from each side inadvertently fall in love. This segment was 

later censored from the film's U.S. video release due to management's 

objections to the film's depiction of gun use.

Blue Bayou

This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia using 

the Claude Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune from Suite 

bergamasque. It featured two egrets flying through the Everglades on a 

moonlit night. However, by the time Make Mine Music was released Clair 

de Lune was replaced by the new song Blue Bayou, performed by 

the Ken Darby Singers. However, the original version of the segment still 

survives.

All the Cats Join In

This segment was one of two sections in which Benny Goodman and his 

Orchestra contributed. Their music played over visuals drawn by an 

animator's pencil as the action occurred. The scene portrayed teens of 

the 1940s being swept away by popular music. This segment features 

some mild female nudity that was edited out in both the US and UK DVD 

releases, although the film's Japanese LaserDisc and VHD releases 

features some mild female nudity intact and uncensored.

Without You

This segment is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.

Casey at the Bat

This segment featured Jerry Colonna, reciting the poem also titled 

"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer, about the arrogant ballplayer 

whose cockiness was his undoing. A few moments are exaggerated or 

altered and music is added. A sequel cartoon to this segment 

called Casey Bats Again was released in 1954.

Two Silhouettes

This segment featured two rotoscoped 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

The segment "Peter and the Wolf" is an animated dramatization of the 

1936 musical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with narration by 

actor Sterling Holloway. A Russian boy named Peter sets off into the 

forest to hunt the wolf with his animal friends: a bird named Sascha, a 

duck named Sonia, and a cat named Ivan. Just like in Prokofiev's piece, 

each character is represented with a specific musical accompaniment: 

Peter by the String Quartet, Sascha by the Flute, Sonia by the Oboe, Ivan 

by the Clarinet, Grandpa by the Bassoon, the shooting of the Hunters' 

guns by the Kettledrums, and the evil Wolf primarily 

by horns and cymbals.

After You've Gone

This segment again featured Benny Goodman and The 

Goodman Quartet Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole and Sid Weiss as 

six anthropomorphized instruments Piano, Bass, Snare and bass Drums, 

Cymbal and Clarinet who paraded through a musical playground.

Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet

This segment told the romantic story of two hats who fell in love in 

a department store window. When Alice was sold, Johnnie devoted 

himself to finding her again. They eventually, by pure chance, meet up 

again and live happily ever after together, side by side. The Andrews 

Sisters provided the vocals. Like the other segments, it was later 

released theatrically. It was released as such on May 21, 1954.

Finale: The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met

The final segment, the finale of the film, is a bittersweet story about 

a sperm whale named Willie with incredible musical talent and his 

dreams of singing grand opera. A rumor is spread throughout the city 

about an operatic whale, but is seemingly disproven, therefore the short-

sighted impresario Tetti-Tatti believes that the whale has swallowed an 

opera singer and sets out to "rescue" his non-existent quarry, the 

newspapers announcing that he was going to sea. Whitey, Willie's 

seagull friend, excitedly brings Willie the newspaper, all of his friends 

believing that this is his big chance, so he goes out to meet the boat and 

sing for Tetti-Tatti. He finds them, and upon hearing Willie sing, Tetti-

Tatti comes to believe that Willie has swallowed not one, 

but three singers due to his having three uvulae, each with a different 

voice range; tenor, baritone and bass, and chases him with a harpoon on 

a boat with three crewmen. Upon hearing the whale sing, the crewmen 

try to stop the stubborn and deluded Tetti-Tatti from killing the whale, as 

they want to continue listening to him sing, even to the point of pinning 

Tetti-Tatti down by sitting on him. A montage then follows of what would 

be Willie's future career in performing opera on the stage of the Met, 

with Tetti-Tatti shown to have finally been convinced otherwise. In the 

end, reality strikes when Tetti-Tatti succeeds in harpooning and killing 

Willie, but the narrator then explains that Willie's voice now in a 

thousand, each more golden than before will sing on in heaven. Nelson 

Eddy narrated and performed all the voices in this segment. As Willie the 

Whale, Eddy sang, among others, Shortnin' Bread, "Largo al factotum" 

from The Barber of Seville and all three male voices in the first part of 

the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.

Just as the curtains close, the film ends.