Walt Disney’s newest full-length picture, Make Mine Music, is a vaudeville show designed for those who were a little overwhelmed by his high-flown Fantasia. Its ten acts range from straight cartoon versions of old legends - the Martin-Coy hillbilly feud, Casey at the Bat - through an abstract impression of the Benny Goodman Quartet playing After You’ve Gone.
The picture’s “stars” remain in the background only as voices (Nelson Eddy, Jerry Colonna, the Andrews Sisters), as shadows (Dancers Tania Riabouchinska and David Lichine) or as tootlers (Mr. Goodman and his men). To spectators Make Mine Music may seem either a new art form or just a collection of good Technicolor cartoons. Not all the acts quite make the grade, but those that do have all the brilliant imagination of the wonderful Walt at his best. […]
