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The Reluctant Dragon
Alternate Title: Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studios
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- Feature Length Animated Film
- Traditional Animation
- Walt Disney Studios
- Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
- Cartoon Characters: Casey, Jr. ("Casey, Jr.")
Donald Duck, Clementine Cow ("Old MacDonald Duck")
Baby Weems, John, Mrs. Weems, Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Salvador Dali ("Baby Weems")
Goofy ("How to Ride a Horse")
Percy, The Reluctant Dragon, Sir Giles ("The Reluctant Dragon").
Characters, Live Action: Robert Benchley, Mrs. Benchley, Humphrey, Doris, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, Florence Gill, Walt Disney. - Voice Actors: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Florence Gill, Clarence Nash, Alan Ladd, Norman Ferguson, Ward Kimball; Full Voice Cast
... - Directed By Hamilton Luske, Ford Beebe, Jim Handley, Verity Erwin, Alfred L. Werker, Jasper Blystone; more Directors ...
- Produced By Walt Disney.
- Animated By Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Milt Neil, Wolfgang Reitherman, Walt Kelly, Jack Campbell, Claude Smith, Harvey Toombs, Bud Smith, Joshua L. Meador.
- Written By Ted Sears, Al Perkins, Larry Clemmons, William Cottrell, Harry Clork, Robert Benchley, Erdman Penner, T. Hee, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, John P. Miller; more Writers ...
- Music: Frank Churchill, Larry Morey, Charles Wolcott.
- Editor: Paul Weatherwax.
- Originally Released on June 20, 1941. (more dates ...)
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 72 minutes.
- Production Number: 2005.
Production Number: 1379 (Baby Weems segment).
Production Number: 1244 (Reluctant Dragon segment) - Black & White, TechniColor
- U.S.A.
Cartoon Summary:
Robert Benchley is at the new Walt Disney Studios, there to pitch a story idea for an animated version of The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame. As he is searching for Walt Disney, he goes into various departments, and sees a variety of the work that goes into... (more)
Cartoon Production Information:
"Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studios" and "A Day at Disneys (Television)."
A combined live-action and animated film. Five short animated stories totaling about 40 minutes wrapped around a tour of the Walt Disney Studios. The first third of the movie is in Black & White, and switches to Technicolor when Benchley goes to... (more)
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