The recalcitrant Dragon

the Recalcitrant Dragon is the 4th feature film of animation of the studios Disney and the first comprising a mixture of animation and catches of real sights, if one excludes a sequence of Fantasia (1940). It is not of this fact considered as a " Traditional Disney ".

Left in 1941, it is inspired partly by the homonymous novel for children of Kenneth Grahame, published in 1898.

Synopsis

The humorist Robert Benchley visits the studios Disney to try to sell with Walt Disney an idea for a cartoon film: history of the " Récalcitrant" dragon;. While trying to escape a young guide from the studio, Benchley crosses various departments peeling the realization of a cartoon film: the class of art, sound effects (where he will see the artists carrying out the sound effects of a small cartoon of Casey Jr., the train which one will find in Dumbo ), the camera multiplane (the film colorise then! and one presents thus to us a scene of Bambi and Donald in an extract of Old MacDonald Duck ), the workshop painting, the session of story-board for the segment Baby Weems , a pre-projection of the short-measuring of Dingo: How to Ride has Horse .

It will finally manage to find Walt Disney in a room of projection (in fact the Theater Hand or Stage D) proposer… the Recalcitrant Dragon !

In Baby Weems , we follow the history of a baby who is born with the gift from the word and an extreme intelligence. True phenomenon of fair, the small child is quickly monopolized by largest of the whole world to the detriment of his/her parents. But a bad cold will come to give the things to their place: the baby loses all his extraordinary capacities indeed and becomes again a small child like the others…

In How to Ride has Horse , we follow Dingo which teaches us how to ride a horse, in the very first episode of the series of the " How to" …

Finally in the Recalcitrant Dragon , we follow a little boy who dreams to be knight and hunter of dragon until he discovers the hiding-place of a specimen not like the others. Indeed, this funny of dragon likes to take good time, to play and sing. It does not spit of fire and, more than all, hates to fight. The little boy decides to learn how to him to behave like a true dragon…

Data sheet

Distribution

Original voices

  • Clarence Nash : Donald Duck
  • Claud Allister: Sir Gilles (segment " The Reluctant Dragon")
  • Barnett Parker: The Dragon (segment " The Reluctant Dragon")
  • Billy Lee : The Servant boy (segment " The Reluctant Dragon")
  • Valley Stanton: Courier (segment " The Reluctant Dragon")
  • J. Donald Wilson: Narrator (segment " The Reluctant Dragon")
  • Gerald Mohr: Narrator (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • Ernie Alexander : Baby Weems' S father
  • Art Gilmore: FDR (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • Leone the Soft: Baby Weems (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • Eddie Marr : Walter Winchell (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • Linda Marwood : Baby Weems' mother (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • Raymond Severn: Baby Weems (segment " Weems" baby;)
  • John McLeish: Narrator (segment " How to Ride has Horse")
  • Pinto Colvig : Goofy (segment " How to Ride has Horse")

French voices

to be supplemented…

Did you know?

  • This film was produced by Walt Disney to answer at the requests of the public to visit the birthplace of their favorite characters. It should be known that at the time the majority of the studios of production allowed to visit their film sets except Disney. The studios of Disney came in addition to moving in new buildings, the Walt Disney Studios of Burbank. The studios of Disney are still not visited but two parks with topics adopt this topic in addition to the magic kingdoms builds with the image of Disneyland.
  • the animation of film was carried out for the major part in the studios of Hyperion Avenue while the real catches of sight used the new buildings.
  • the segment the Recalcitrant Dragon is not the only segment of Walt Disney drawn from a novel of Kenneth Grahame, indeed the Pond with the Frogs of the film the Clamping plate and the Schoolmaster is drawn from the novel the Wind in the willows ( The Wind in the Willows ).
  • In the segment Casey Jr. , one sees for the first time the train and the animation of the feature film of Walt Disney, Dumbo , because the segment was supposed to appear in the film which left 4 months later, but had been cut to the assembly.

Exit Cinema

  • June 20th, 1941 (Only exit with the cinema being given the speed of the changes of the processes to make the cartoons.)

Videos out

  • 1991 : VHS
  • 1999 : Box VHS with documentary the Frank and Ollie )
  • December 3rd, 2002: DVD in compilation Slides of the Studios Disney of the series of the Walt Disney Treasures

External bonds

  • Synopsis of the site

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