The Reluctant Dragon (film)

The Reluctant Dragon (Original Title: The Reluctant Dragon) is a film of the Walt Disney Studios in 1941, which connects several animation elements with live- action framework. He was the second of eight created in the 1940s full-length Disney films, which consist of several short stories to tell instead of a continuous action.

Action

The film follows the humorist Robert Benchley on a tour of the Disney Studios, where he wants to sell the idea of ​​Walt Disney to turn Kenneth Grahame's story The Reluctant Dragon movie. On the tour he meets, among others on the Donald Duck spokesman Clarence Nash and looks to be developed in the various departments such as stories, drawings arise, be filmed and set to music the drawings. When he finally meets in person at the end of the film to Walt Disney, this has already filmed the dragon story.

The film contains the following cartoon segments:

  • Baby Weems: Using (some slightly animated ) storyboard drawings, the story is told from a child prodigy whose fame removed him from his parents to make him a serious illness back to a normal baby.
  • Goofy's Riding School ( How to Ride): Goofy's first How to ... Cartoon.
  • Casey Junior: Using a cut out of the movie Dumbo scene is shown how the sounds are recorded. ( Here, the impression the films would shoot it. Actually, however, the sound is recorded before the drawings are created. )
  • Old MacDonald Duck: Donald Duck explained with the example of this film, as a movement arises from various drawings.
  • The Reluctant Dragon ( The Reluctant Dragon): A poetry -writing dragon must change his nature to live in coexistence with the neighboring village. He and Sir Giles wearing mock battles out to deceive the villagers that the dragon is dangerous.

Publications

In German-speaking only part of the total film on video and DVD are available so far. The Reluctant Dragon was released on 29 January 2004 on the DVD Magical World of Fairy Tales, Part 6 and Goofy riding school on 25 November 2004 on DVD Sports, Fun, superstars. Two scenes in which we see Clarence Nash in the synchronization of Donald and Donald in explaining how to make animated films, are found as a bonus on the published on 22 July 2004 DVD Walt Disney Treasures: Donald through the ages 1934-1941. Additionally, published on 11 March 2010, the sequence Casey Junior as bonus material on the DVD Dumbo - 70th anniversary under the title the Sound Design of " the Reluctant Dragon ".

1941 in film Hamilton Luske Screenplay Film score Frank Churchill Bert Glennon Winton Hoch Paul Weatherwax Dream Days Leonard Maltin
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