Full-length musical combines animated cartoons with flesh-and-blood actors
With his latest picture, The Three Caballeros, Walt Disney adds another to the long list of innovations he has given the movie industry since he first sketched in the features of Mickey Mouse 20 years ago. A feature-length Technicolor musical, The Three Caballeros offers Hollywood a brand-new movie technique and its audiences a fresh bundle of surprises. Based on the adventures of Donald Duck, his pal Joe Carioca and Mexican rooster Panchito (a new creation), it presents the first’ practical screen synthesis of animated cartoons and flesh-and-blood actors. With the exact process a secret, the two-year project was executed largely in South America. Other surprises: introduction of Aurora Miranda, favorite Latin stage and radio singer; kaleidoscopic blending of abstract color patterns to music; seven sure-fire hit songs and a spirited new dance called the Samba-Jongo.
