Happy 79th Anniversary!
Released: August 24, 1943
This past week was the 79th anniversary of Walt Disney's seventh animated feature film, "Saludos Amigos." The film had its world premiere on August 24, 1943 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil with the a subsequent release starting in Boston and the rest of the US later on February 6, 1943. To commemorate the film, I thought I would share my only piece of animation art from the film, a wonderful production background an the Andean mountain landscape and village from the intro to the Penguin sequence. I love this 12 field background because of the train theme and painting's overall subject. It really stands out on its own as a wonderful little storybook painting. If you watch the film, you will notice that the train was not originally in the painting and was added later by the studio for when they gave the painting away. This painting reminds me of the scene from Dumbo when Casey Junior is singing & traveling in the film. I love all things with trains!
Original Production Background, gouache on 12 field heavyweight paperArtist: Various Studio, unknownAcquired: November 12, 2006
More wonderful details are also revealed on the backside of the painting. Complete with production markings, the backgrounds appears to be filmed for the intro sequence on September 4, 1942. I have never been able to make out the signatures, but it might suggest that studio artist, Art Riley had a hand in this painting somehow. Art Riley is credited with layout and background on this film and it is very likely that he worked on this scene. More research will have to be done to determine that!
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