Lucas. Their recording of the song survives, however, and can be found on the Bear Family Records 7-CD set titled Come On-A My House. This segment was later edited on the film's NTSC video release (except the PAL release) to remove all parts with Bill smoking a cigarette and almost the entire tornado scene with Bill rolling his cigarette and lighting it with a lightning bolt. Andrew Sisters give it popular vocal interpretation", and said that although The New York Times preferred the film to Make Mine Music the magazine added "The Andrew Sisters sing the story...not very excitingly". Photos from A Christmas Melody. [27], The authors of The Cartoon Music Book said Melody Time was "much better" than the other post-Fantasia Disney package films of the era, adding that it was "beautifully designed and scored", paving the way for the "'populuxe' style" of Disney's first renaissance (starting with Cinderella in 1950). Melody Time, while not meeting the artistic accomplishments of Fantasia, was mildly successful. (Crosby), "The Old Man (reprise)" (Crosby & Men's Chorus), "Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens), "White Christmas (finale)" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney, Stevens & Chorus), This page was last edited on 9 April 2021, at 13:46. Another song written by Berlin for the film was "Sittin' in the Sun (Countin' My Money)" but because of delays in production Berlin decided to publish it independently. This segment was released independently on December 25, 1955 as Johnny Appleseed. It says a "tuneful and functional soundtrack rounds out the Disney art". It was a new thing for Disney. Crosby and Astaire had previously co-starred in Holiday Inn (1942) – where the song "White Christmas" first appeared – and Blue Skies (1946). The men have just received word their beloved Major General Thomas G. Waverly has been relieved of his command. The most recent US issue was a 4-disc "Diamond Anniversary Edition" in 2014. Source The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 American stop-motion musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. DVDizzy notes that in regard to the mix of shorts and 1940s music, "the marriage often does not work, and the melodies are not particularly the film's forte"; however, it adds that this is a modern-day opinion, and that paying audiences at the time the film was released probably "felt better about the music". [11] Crosby also left the project shortly thereafter, to spend more time with his sons after the death of his wife, Dixie Lee. A Christmas Melody Cast. 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Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas, "White Christmas (1954) - Notes - TCM.com", "Merry and Bright? It also explains that "with the off-screen voice of Buddy Clark doing the introductions, the...episodes include fantasy, folklore, South American rhythms, poetry, and slapstick". Betty and Bob's romance starts to bloom. Is he her Han? Directed by James Head. Irving Berlin's White Christmas Begins Nov. 22 in City of Angels, "Berlin musical comes to life: 'White Christmas' stays true to form", I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night), I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind, The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Christmas_(film)&oldid=1016864344, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "The Old Man" (Crosby, Kaye, and Men's Chorus), "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" (Kaye with Vera-Ellen, dubbed by Trudy Stevens), "Snow" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Vera-Ellen, dubbed by Trudy Stevens), Minstrel Number: "I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show" / "Mister Bones" / ", "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (reprise)" (Kaye & Chorus), "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" (Clooney), "What Can You Do with a General?" It said that Bumble Boogie "reverted back to fantasia-like interpretive technique". They sang throughout the 10-minute segment known as Little Toot. Davis shields Wallace from a collapsing wall and is wounded by debris. Stars Janel Parrish & Jeremy Jordan. Norman Krasna was a talented man but... it was the lousiest story I'd ever heard. Paramount put up the $2 million budget and only took 30% of the proceeds. Just like Chabert, Elliott has also been a part of various Hallmark movies like ‘All of my Heart’, ‘A Christmas Melody’, ‘Love You Like Christmas’, ‘All of my Heart: The Wedding’ and many more. The centerpiece of the film is the title song, first used in Holiday Inn, which won that film an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942. Miracles of Christmas 2020. Five selections were from Melody Time while another was the short Two For the Record, which consisted of two segments produced under Benny Goodman's direction. [15] "Blue Shadows on the Trail" was chosen by the Western Writers of America as one of the top 100 Western Songs of all time.[16]. All songs were written by Irving Berlin. [21][22][23][24][25][26] The musical played a limited engagement on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, from November 14, 2008, until January 4, 2009. The song "Snow" was originally written for Call Me Madam with the title "Free", but was dropped in out-of-town tryouts. [22], Melody Time was first released on January 25, 1987, in Japan, on Laserdisc, and then on VHS on June 2, 1998, under the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection title.[23]. [8] The piece has a running time of "17 minutes [making it] the film's second-longest piece". Realizing she was mistaken, Betty returns to Vermont just in time to be in the show. [17] Melody Time ended up being released a few months earlier than planned, in May. For example, one of the lines of the original song is: Free – the only thing worth fighting for is to be free. [3] Rose Pelswick, in a 1948 review for The News-Sentinel, described the film as an 'adventure into the intriguing make-believe world peopled by Walt Disney's Cartoon characters". It is too bad that it doesn't hit the eardrums and the funnybone with equal force. He highlighted the "slapstick...impressive montage of Bill's impressive feats" as a "true treat". Bob and Phil improvise a performance to buy the girls time, then flee to the train, where they now have to sit up in the Club Car, much to Bob's chagrin. The film was known by a variety of names including Време за музика in Bulgaria, Mélodie cocktail in France, Musik, Tanz und Rhythmus in Germany, and Säveltuokio in Finland. The article The Walt Disney Classics Collection Gets "Twitterpatted" For Spring deemed Little Toot one of Melody Time's highlights. It was also featured in Sing Me a Story with Belle. Wallace asks how he can pay back Davis for saving his life, and Davis suggests they become a duo act. With a total running time of "22 minutes, [it] is the lengthiest piece". They arrive at the empty Columbia Inn, and are aghast to discover that General Waverly is the landlord of the hotel, has sunk his life savings into it, and is in danger of bankruptcy. [9], The songs in Melody Time were all "largely based around (then) contemporary music and musical performances". To preserve the look of the original story sketches, layout artist Ken O'Connor came up with the idea of using frosted cels and rendering the pastel images right onto the cel. It was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Thomas Wood, "'White Christmas': From pop tune to picture". On Disney+, the smoking scenes were left intact for the first time in 80 years. Ed suggests they put the general on the show and make a big scene of his misfortune and Bob's kindness, which would be free advertising for Bob and Phil. With Andrea Roth, Nicholas Brendon, Elisa Donovan, Bruce Davison. Darby was only employed at The Walt Disney Company for a short while after this supposed incident. This is not the case in the UK Region 2 DVD where it is unaltered. "[31] Film historian J.B. Kaufman has noted that the segment is a cult favorite among Disney fans. They did the job at $5,000 a week.[13]. D&D Beyond It also notes that the abstraction ends after Trees, and the final three shorts are "story-sequences". The Andrews Sisters provide the vocals. The Dinning Sisters provide the vocals while organist Ethel Smith appears in a live-action role. [18] This sets it apart from the similarly structured Fantasia, whose segments were set to classical music instead. While the character of Bill is shown "smoking a cigarette in several sequences", the edited version cuts these scenes, "resulting in the removal of almost the entire tornado sequence, and [creating] some odd hand and mouth movements for Bill throughout". The lovers are named Jenny and Joe (unlike most Disney cartoons, Jenny and Joe do not have spoken dialogue in this cartoon). Melody Time is a 1948 American hybrid musical film and the tenth theatrically released animated feature produced by Walt Disney. This segment is based on the story of Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky, in which the title protagonist, a small tugboat, wanted to be just like his father Big Toot, but could not seem to stay out of trouble. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn. This segment presents a surrealistic battle for a solitary bumble bee as he tries to ward off a visual and musical frenzy. [29], In a review of the 2004 Disney film Home on the Range, the article Frisky 'Range' doesn't measure up: Disney delivers fun said that the "sendup of the Wild West...has some fitful comic vitality and charm - [but] it can't hold a candle to the 'Pecos Bill' segment of the studio's late-'40s anthology, 'Melody Time'". The film was the first to be shot using Paramount's new VistaVision process, with color by Technicolor, and was one of the first to feature the Perspecta directional sound system at limited engagements. White Christmas was enormously popular with audiences, earning $12 million in theatrical rentals – equal to $114,245,353 today – making it the top moneymaker of 1954 by a wide margin[14] and the highest-grossing musical at the time. A scene from the film featuring Crosby and Kaye was broadcast the year after the film's release, on Christmas Day 1955, in the final episode of the NBC TV show Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955). As everyone sings "White Christmas", a thick snowfall at last blankets Vermont. [2], Mel Frank and Norman Panama were hired to add material for Danny Kaye. Betty sees Bob go on Harrison's show and invite the entire 151st division to secretly join him at Pine Tree to surprise General Waverly, at Bob and Phil's expense. Bumble Boogie was among the few segments to receive huge popularity upon individual release. [10] Financially, the film was a partnership between Crosby and Irving Berlin, who shared half the profits, and Paramount, which got the other half.[11]. From December 1948 (UK) to 15 September 1954 (Denmark) the film was released across Europe. The accompanying music is the 1914 polka Apanhei-te, Cavaquinho by Ernesto Nazareth, fitted with English lyrics. [30], Rotten Tomatoes reported that 80% of 10 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average score of 7.08/10. The music is courtesy of Freddy Martin And His Orchestra (with Jack Fina playing the piano) and is a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, which was one of the many pieces considered for inclusion in Fantasia. The men send him off with a rousing chorus of "The Old Man." When she starts falling in love with the factory's owner, the town's Christmas spirit over takes her. John Brascia leads the dance troupe and appears opposite Vera-Ellen throughout much of the movie, particularly in the "Mandy" and "Choreography" numbers. They receive a letter supposedly from their old Mess Sergeant, Ben "Freckle Face" Haynes, asking them to view his sisters' act. At 9 she had a BFF in the woods nearby named Han Solo. It is the fifth Disney package film following Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, and Fun and Fancy Free. In a glass case, behind the windows of the All-Star Movies, there is a script for Melody Time. Christmas Tree Lane. It was very exciting to work with Disney-he was such a gentleman". Within the film, a number of soon-to-be famous performers appear. A stage adaptation of the musical, titled Irving Berlin's White Christmas premiered in San Francisco in 2004[20] and has played in various venues in the US, such as Boston, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Detroit and Louisville. For the first time in 80 years, the uncut version with Pecos Bill's cigarette can now be seen on Disney+. Trudy Stevens provided the singing voice for Vera-Ellen, including in "Sisters". Darby was "enraged", and said to Disney "THAT is just a cross-section of one man's opinion!". Aug 16 2020. He also spoke about the "stellar special effects" involved in the dynamite exploding Ethel Smith's organ instrument, in the segment Blame it on the Samba. In the World of Disney, Jose Carioca from Blame it on the Samba appears in a mural on the ceiling among many other characters. White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Consequently, each company issued a separate "soundtrack recording": Decca issuing Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas, while Columbia issued Irving Berlin's White Christmas. It says the simple story of Johnny Appleseed is done with "touching perception". NEXT: The 10 Best Hallmark Christmas Movies, Ranked Frank said "writing that movie was the worst experience of my life. Melody Time is a 1948 American hybrid musical film and the tenth theatrically released animated feature produced by Walt Disney.It was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. ", and "Walt Disney's GREAT NEW MUSICAL COMEDY". Before being photographed each cel was laminated in clear lacquer to protect the pastel. It then headed to the Sunderland Empire in Sunderland from November 2010 to January 2011 after a successful earlier run in Manchester, and continued in various cities with a London West End run at the end of 2014. [19] As opposed to Fun and Fancy Free, whose story was bound to the tales of Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk, in this film "Walt Disney has let his animators and his color magicians have free rein". [22], Beck considers the segment "Blame It on the Samba" to be the best "Good Neighbor" Disney film there is, stating that "it blows my mind every time I watch it. was originally written for an un-produced project called Stars on My Shoulders. [32], The film returned rentals to RKO by 1951 of $2,560,000 with $1,810,000 being generated in the U.S. and Canada.[2]. Made up of seven segments set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like Make Mine Music before it, the popular music version of Fantasia. [12], The film's final segment is about Texas' famous hero Pecos Bill. [9], White Christmas was intended to reunite Crosby and Fred Astaire for their third Irving Berlin showcase musical. It needed a brand new story, one that made sense." Melody Time is considered to be the last anthology feature made by the Walt Disney Animation Studios (the next film to be released was The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, which featured two stories). This collection contains a Blu-ray with extras, two DVDs with the film and extras, and a fourth disc of Christmas songs on CD. ", "7 HIT SONGS! A woman visits her parents for Christmas. Betty and Bob, however, argue about Bob's cynicism, and the fact it was really Judy who wrote the letter instead of Ben. After Waverly departs, enemy bombers attack the area and everyone takes cover. The DVD has bonus features in the form of the following three cartoons: Casey Bats Again, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, and Donald Applecore. [11] Near the end of January 1953, Crosby returned to the project, and Donald O'Connor was signed to replace Astaire. Directed by John Murlowski. He described the "manic interpretation" of Flight of the Bumblebee known as Bumble Boogie, in which a bee terrorized by musical instruments and notes "change[s] colors and outlines from one moment to the next as the backgrounds seamlessly dissolve, change or morph around him", as "Disney's best piece of surealism since the 'Pink Elephant on Parade' sequence in Dumbo". This segment featured a recitation of the 1913 poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and music by Oscar Rasbach performed by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians with the lyrical setting accompanying animation of bucolic scenes seen through the changing of the seasons. Two songwriters played the score and Walt Disney explained it to us. HOLIDAY FILMS A GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PASTWilson, John M. Los Angeles Times 25 Dec 1984: h1. He described the singing as "unremarkable but narrat[ing] the...story cleverly". Astaire declined the project after reading the script[10] and asked to be released from his contract with Paramount. [12], Many of the seven segments were later released as shorts, and some of them became "more successful than the original film". [4] A 1948 review by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described it as a "mixture of fantasy, abstraction, parable, music, color, and movement".[5]. [14], A 1948 review by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the film was a "visual and auditory delight" and added that if Disney were able to reach his audience's other senses, "there's no doubt he'd be able to please them too". Future Oscar winner George Chakiris also appears[12] as one of the stone-faced black-clad dancers surrounding Rosemary Clooney in "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me". [7], Berlin wrote "A Singer, A Dancer" for Crosby and his planned co-star Fred Astaire; when Astaire became unavailable, Berlin re-wrote it as "A Crooner – A Comic" for Crosby and Donald O'Connor, but when O'Connor left the project, so did the song. Director Michael Curtiz has made his picture look good. [9] Before being adapted as a segment in Melody Time, the story of Johnny Appleseed was "first immortalized around campfires", then later turned into "storybook form".[10]. The various taglines of the film were: "For Your All-Time Good Time! Go figure. A 1948 review of the film for The News-Sentinel described Pecos Bill as the best segment, and said it "caused a stir among the small fry in the audience". Nairobi, Hbo, Kenya. [14], Favourite Disney juvenile actors Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten, who also starred in Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart, appear in the last sequence as the two children who hear the story of Pecos Bill (. Some of the segments "have been re-released as featurettes", and Once Upon a Wintertime has "been included on other Disney video cartoon compilations". A composer's demo of the original song can be found on the CD Irving Sings Berlin. Heaven’s elders cast their crowns down by the glassy sea; Cherubim and seraphim worship too before Thee, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be. [28], The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record author H. Arlo Nimmo said "in general, [the Andrew Sisters-sung] Melody Time holds up well, and the story of 'Little Toot' is as appealing to today as when it originally appeared fifty-some years ago". The film was originally released in USA, Brazil, and Argentina in 1948, in 1949 in Australia and in 1950 in Mexico and Uruguay. Phil and Judy stage a phony engagement, thinking Betty is trying to avoid romance because she doesn't want to leave Judy unprotected. It was subsequently re-released in 2009, with a commensurate Blu-ray in 2010. These songs are performed individually by Crosby, Clooney, and Kaye. "[18], Variety liked it: "White Christmas should be a natural at the boxoffice, introducing as it does Paramount's new VistaVision system with such a hot combination as Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and an Irving Berlin score...Crosby and Kaye, along with VV, keep the entertainment going in this fancifully staged Robert Emmett Dolan production, clicking so well the teaming should call for a repeat...Certainly he [Crosby] has never had a more facile partner than Kaye against whom to bounce his misleading nonchalance."[19]. [16], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a "Certified Fresh" 77% critical approval rating based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10, and an 88% audience approval rating based on 50,101 reviews, with an average rating of 4.34/5. Andrews Sisters member Maxine said: "It was quite an experience. He praised the "exceptional designs and palettes" by stylist Mary Blair, including the "flat styli[s]ed backgrounds" of Wintertime, and the Impressionist painting/folk art look of The Legend of Johnny Appleseed. Collectible items for the film include books, figures, and posters. He said that by this time the post-war formula of releasing anthologies had become "tired", with only a few of the segments being interesting, and feeling as if the animators kept "pushing for something more creative to do". According to Disney, the film's plot is as follows: "In the grand tradition of Disney's greatest musical classics, such as FANTASIA, MELODY TIME features seven classic stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettale characters...[A] feast for the eyes and ears [full of] wit and charm...a delightful Disney classic with something for everyone". 11 MUSICAL STARS! When Melody's neighbor, Nina, learns that her lymphoma has returned, Melody vows to keep Nina's kids, Holly & Ivy, together. A series of unlikely coincidences and a little Christmas magic bring two strangers together while on a road trip, at a wedding, and in the pursuit of their dreams. Originally, Gloria Wood was going to do Vera-Ellen's singing until Clooney intervened on behalf of her friend. Later reviews are more mixed, noting the film's faults, but also praising it for various technical achievements. [11], This segment has Donald Duck and José Carioca meeting the Aracuan Bird, who introduces them to the pleasures of the samba. [6], Melody Time was the last feature film to include Donald Duck and José Carioca until the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit.[6]. He adds Variety's quote: "'Little Toot,'...is colorful and engrossing. Finding out from Judy that the girls' landlord is falsely suing them for a damaged rug and has even gone so far as to call the police to get his money, Phil gives them tickets he and Bob had purchased to spend Christmas in New York City. He was raised by coyotes (similar to how Mowgli was raised by wolves in The Jungle Book) and later became the biggest and best cowboy that ever lived. The result was a look that had never been seen in animation before. They were "financially (and artistically) lightweight productions meant to bring in profits [to allow the studio to] return to fairy tale single-narrative feature form", an endeavour which they successfully completed two years later with Cinderella. "[15] The scenes are removed on the Gold Collection DVD release[12] although the Japanese laserdisc and the version of the DVD released in the United Kingdom are uncut. Free – a different world you'd see if it were left to me. This segment is a retelling of the story of John Chapman, who spent most of his life roaming the Midwestern United States (mainly Ohio and Indiana) in the pioneer days, and planting apple trees, thus earning his famous nickname. They stated that Trees and Blame it on the Samba (which they described as a "psychedelic Latin American sequence") are "charming, if still obscure, entries in the Disney pop song catalog[ue]". It explains the "video quality is consistently satisfying" and that the "audio has the dated feel of other '40s Disney films". (The first edition of Vera-Ellen's biography by David Soren made the mistake of suggesting that "perhaps" Clooney sang for Vera in "Sisters". [17] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was not impressed: "...the use of VistaVision, which is another process of projecting on a wide, flat screen, has made it possible to endow White Christmas with a fine pictorial quality. Unfortunately, the housekeeper Emma overheard only the first half of the conversation, which she relays to Betty, who becomes suddenly cold towards a baffled Bob. According to a source, upon reviewing the music that Ken Darby had composed for Johnny Appleseed, Walt Disney "scorned the music", describing it as "like New Deal music". It said Little Toot "is destined to become a fable of our time" and adds "the Andrew Sisters tell the story in lilting song". Upon arriving in Vermont, they find all the tourists have left due to no snow and unseasonably warm weather. [4] A 1948 review of the film for the Los Angeles Times said the "acts" Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill, which the "new variety show from Walt Disney [gave] special attention to" are "'human' sagas" and as a result "more endearing" than the rest of the segments. 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