Summary: Using live action and animated cartoons, the film tells seven stories: "Once Upon a Wintertime," a sleighing adventure of bygone days; "Bumble Boogie," the reactions of a bee to a piano rendition of "The Flight of the Bumblebee;" "Johnny Appleseed," the semi-legendary tale of a pioneer benefactor; "Little Toot," the activities of a small tugboat in New York Harbor; "Trees," a cartoon fantasy based on Joyce Kilmer's poem; "Blame It on the Samba," in which Donald Duck and José Carioca cavort to Brazilian rhythms; and "Pecos Bill," a folk tale of the western plains.
Credits: Production supervisor, Ben Sharpsteen; cartoon directors, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney; story, Winston Hibler, Harry Reeves, Ken Anderson [and others]; directing animators, Eric Larson, Ward Kimball [and others]; musical directors, Eliot Daniel, Ken Darby; film editors, Donald Halliday, Thomas Scott.
Cast: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, the Andrews Sisters, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Freddy Martin, Ethel Smith.
© Walt Disney Productions; 7Apr48; LP1721.
MÉMOIRES D'UN MÉDECIN. SEE Black Magic.
MEMORIES OF AUSTRALIA. c1943. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 893 ft., sd., color. (A Miniature)
Credits: Narrator, James A. FitzPatrick; photographer, Hone Glendinning; music score, Nathaniel Shilkret. Technicolor.
© Loew's Inc.; 15Jun43; MP13760.
MEMORIES OF COLUMBUS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1945. 1 reel, sd., color. (Lowell Thomas' Movietone Adventures)
Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; continuity, Valeska Weidig; music score, L. deFrancesco; photographer, Jack Painter. Technicolor.