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Make Mine Music [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman, The Andrews Sisters, Jerry Colonna
directed by: Bob Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney, Joshua Meador

Release Date June 06, 2000
Like reviewer “Lenfran” I saw this as a child when it was first released and agree with everything he says in “Make mine day” and will just add a few comments.

Apparently due to a misguided sense of political correctness or whatever the lively and tuneful “Martins and the Coys” (great fun about feuding hill billy families) has been omitted, why? I saw the unexpurgated version and suffered no ill effects whatsoever.

Some of the sequences are truly beautiful, “Blue Bayou” with its wonderful subtle palette of blue is the most sophisticated animation I think I have ever seen, with “Two Silhouettes” close behind, but this is not a true cartoon as the dancers are live ... Read More:

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Make Mine Music

starring: Nelson Eddy
directed by: Bob Cormack, Clyde Geronimi

Release Date July 03, 2000
A working man's version of Fantasia, this film is great entertainment. Beautiful animation, terrific music, it's just a shame the people putting the UK video together decided to cut in half the "Casey at the Bat" section and remove totally the "McCoys and the Martins" section. When I bought this video, no mention of these cuts were made evident. When I wrote to Disney in London, they replied that the cuts were made to make the film more "family friendly"! This film was released in 1946. Are Disney really saying the world is so much more innocent than when "Uncle Walt" deemed this film to be released in the first place? I haven't purchased the re-release of "Snow White" yet, but does the wicked witch ... Read More: