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''Melody Time'' (working title ''All in Fun''), a 1948 film, is the 10th theatrically released animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Made up of several sequences set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like ''Make Mine Music'' before it, the popular music version of ''Fantasia'' (an ambitious film that proved to be a commercial disappointment upon its original theatrical release). ''Melody Time'', while not meeting the artistic accomplishments of ''Fantasia'', was mildly successful. It is the tenth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the fifth package film following ''Saludos Amigos'', ''The Three Caballeros'', ''Make Mine Music'', and ''Fun and Fancy Free''. ==Production== In late 1947, Disney announced he would be releasing a "regrouping of various cartoons at his studio under two titles, 'Melody Time' and 'Two Fabulous Characters'", to be released in August 1948 and 1949, respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=DISNEY ANNOUNCES TWO NEW PROJECTS; ' Melody Time' to Be Released in August and Two Fabulous Characters' in 1949 )〕 Melody Time ended up being a released a few months earlier than planned, in May. ''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). These package features were "little-known short-film compilations that Disney produced and released as feature films during World War II". They were "financially (and artistically) lightweight productions meant to bring in profits (allow the studio to ) return to fairy tale single-narrative feature form", a endeavour which they successfully completed two years later with ''Cinderella''. While the shorts "contrast in length, form, and style", a common thread throughout is that each "is accompanied by song() from musicians and vocalists of the '40s"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Melody Time )〕 - both popular and folk music. This sets it apart from the similarly structured ''Fantasia'', whose segments were set to classical music instead. As opposed to ''Fun and Fancy Free'', whose story was bound to the tales of ''Bongo'' and ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', in this film "Walt Disney has let his animators and his color magicians have free rein". ''Melody Time'' was the last film The Andrews Sisters took part in. They sang throughout the 10 minute segment known as ''Little Toot''. Andrews Sisters member Maxine said: "It was quite an experience. On the wall at the studio they had the whole story in picture form. Two songwriters played the score and Walt Disney explained it to us. It was a new thing for Disney. We sang the narrative. It was very exciting to work with Disney-he was such a gentleman". The two children who hear the story of Pecos Bill (Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten) also appear together in ''Song of the South'' and ''So Dear to My Heart''. ''Melody Time'' was the last feature film to include Donald Duck & José Carioca until the 1988 movie ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melody Time」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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