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Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.
During the Second World War, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released four package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music.
To date, Make Mine Music is the only movie in the Disney animated features canon not to gain a Region 4 DVD release.

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Film segments

This particular film has ten such segments:

The Martins and the Coys features popular radio vocal group, The King's Men singing the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fall in love. This segment was later cut from the film's video release due to comic gunplay.

Blue Bayou features animation originally intended for Fantasia using the Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune.

All the Cats Join In is one of two segments to which Benny Goodman contributed. An innovative shot in which a pencil draws the action as it's happening, and in which 1940s teens are swept away by popular music.

Without You is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.

Casey at the Bat features Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem about the arrogant ballplayer whose cockiness was his undoing.

Two Silhouettes features two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. Dinah Shore sings the title song.

Peter and the Wolf features Sterling Holloway narrating an adaptation of Prokofiev's composition about a little boy who goes hunting for a wolf, with each of the characters being thematically represented by a member of an orchestra (violins, flute, etc.).

After You've Gone again features Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphized instruments parade through a musical playground.

Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett tells the romantic story of two hats who fall in love in a department store window. When Alice is sold, Johnny devotes himself to finding her again. The Andrews Sisters provide the vocals.

The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met is the bittersweet finale about a Sperm Whale with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. But short-sighted impressario Tetti-Tatti believes that the whale has simply swallowed an opera singer, and chases him with a harpoon. Nelson Eddy narrates and performs all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Eddy sings all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.

Cast

Actor	Role(s)
Nelson Eddy	Narrator; Characters (The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met)
Dinah Shore	Singer (Two Silhouettes)
Benny Goodman	Music composer (All the Cats Join InAfter You've Gone)
The Andrews Sisters	Singers (Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet)
Jerry Colonna	Narrator (Casey At the Bat)
Sterling Holloway	Narrator (Peter and the Wolf)
Andy Russell	Singer (Without You)
David Lichine	Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
Tania Riabouchinskaya	Dancer (Two Silhouettes)
The Pied Pipers	Singers
The King's Men	Singers (The Martins and the Coys)
The Ken Darby Chorus	Singers (Blue Bayou)

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