Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 American film directed by Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske and Bill Roberts. The film premiered on August 24, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro, and was theatrically released on February 6, 1943.
== Plot ==
This film features four different segments, each of which begin with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country, drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery.
=== Lake Titicaca ===
In this segment, American tourist Donald Duck visits Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru and meets some of the locals, including an obstinate llama.
=== Pedro ===
Pedro is about a small anthropomorphic airplane from an airport near Santiago, Chile, engaging in his first flight to retrieve air mail from Mendoza, with disastrous consequences. He manages to safely return to the airfield with the mail, which happens to be a single postcard. RKO Pictures released this particular segment as a theatrical short on May 13, 1955.
Chilean cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger (known popularly as "Pepo") was disappointed with how the character Pedro represented his country. In response, he developed the character Condorito, who went on to become one of the most iconic comic magazine characters in Latin America.
=== El Gaucho Goofy ===
In this segment, American cowboy Goofy gets taken from Texas to the Argentinian pampas by the Narrator to learn the ways of the native gaucho. This segment was later edited for the film's Gold Classic Collection VHS/DVD release to remove one scene in which Goofy is shown smoking a cigarette. This edit appears again on the Classic Caballeros Collection DVD. This sequence has since been restored as the unedited version has been much requested. The fully unedited version is available as a bonus feature on the Walt & El Grupo DVD release and fully unedited and restored on Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros 75th Anniversary Edition 2-Movie Collection Blu-ray. When the film was released on Disney's streaming platform Disney+, the edited version of the sequence was used despite disclaimers of the film being presented in its original format with "outdated cultural depictions" and tobacco usage, but it has since been changed to the unedited version.
=== Aquarela do Brasil ===
Aquarela do Brasil (Portuguese for "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the film, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showing Donald Duck around South America, having a drink of cachaça with him and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Aquarela do Brasil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").
== Cast and Characters ==
* Lee Blair as Himself
* Mary Blair as Herself
* Pinto Colvig as Goofy
* Walt Disney as Himself
* Norman Ferguson as Himself
* Frank Graham as Himself
* Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
* José do Patrocínio Oliveira as José Carioca
* Fred Shields as Narrator
* Frank Thomas as Himself
* Stuart Buchanan as Flight Attendant
Category:Films
Category:Hybrid Films
Category:1942 Films
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