Music Land (film)

Music Land is a package film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on October 5, 1955. As the final Disney animated film to be distributed by RKO, it was also the last package film produced by Disney until The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1977, following Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Like The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons, each of the cartoons had been released on its own at first before being fused together as one film. The separate cartoon shorts are now available on DVD.
Although Walt Disney Productions had established its own film distribution firm, it still owed RKO one more feature film under the existing contract. In order to fulfill that final film commitment, Disney took a combination of four sequences from Make Mine Music and five from Melody Time to create a new compilation film entitled Music Land.
The poster boldly declared it was "The Big Parade of Mirth and Melody!" The film was never shown again except once at a retrospective “Tribute to Walt Disney” at the National Film Theater in 1970. There are no home video releases of the entire film available as these two aforementioned movies were already available on VHS, DVD, and digital.
==Film segments==
The film contained the following sequences:
*Trees
*All the Cats Join In
*After You've Gone
*Once Upon a Wintertime
*Pecos Bill
*Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet
*Bumble Boogie
*Casey at the Bat
*Blame It on the Samba
In the early 2010s, a print of the film was uncovered in Melbourne, Australia, said print was later privately screened at the Astor Theater.https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=11124187 According to an audience member at that screening, the print had the shorts in the following order:
*Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet
*After You've Gone
*All the Cats Join In
*Once Upon a Wintertime
*Blame It on the Samba
*Old Mac
*Casey at the Bat
*Bumble Boogie
*Pecos Bill
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*None of the titles, transitions, nor the ending have been featured on any home video releases, such as Make Mine Music, Melody Time, or any of the Walt Disney Treasures DVDs as bonus features.
*The film shares the same title as A Silly Symphonies cartoon from 20 years before
==References==
==See also==
*Music Land: A 1935 Silly Symphony cartoon
Category:1955 films
Category:Make Mine Music
Category:Melody Time
Category:Animated films
Category:Disney films
Category:Unrated films