The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

Directed by

Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., Hamilton Luske, Alfred L. Werker

Genre

anthology film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

G

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 164 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tour of Walt Disney Studios in 1941. Robert Benchley tries to persuade the studio to make a film of The Reluctant Dragon, and along the way he sees animators at work and watches several new cartoons.

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What happens

The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American live-action/animated anthology comedy film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941. Essentially a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California, the film stars Algonquin Round Table member, film actor, writer and comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all as themselves. The first twenty minutes of the film is in black-and-white, and the remainder is in Technicolor. Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo; and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems (presented as a storyboard), Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame's short story of the same name. The total length of all animated parts is 40 minutes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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