A cute but entertaining film – highly recommended as an early walk-through of the Buena Vista Street studios when the paint was practically still drying - that might fall into the category of a “package” feature of the 1940’s a collection of bits and pieces, but is neither fish nor fowl (at least The Reluctant Dragon had a coherent story thread tying the whole thing together, unlike the package films that followed it – and thus defying even that categorization). It combines live-action and animation – sort of (there is no actual blending of the two elements, as there would be in The Three Caballeros – or previously in the Alice Comedies). The Reluctant Dragon (1941) was Walt Disney’s first live-action feature – sort of (there are a lot of animated sequences). Sherman “The Loch Ness Monster” by Tutti Camarata, Jimmy Johnson. Hee “Puff, the Magic Dragon” by Peter Yarrow, Leonard Lipton “Mad Madam Mim” by Richard M. Songs: “The Reluctant Dragon” by Ed Penner, Charles Wolcott, T. Voices: Thurl Ravenscroft (Narrator/Dragon) Karl Swenson (Merlin) Ricky Sorenson (Wart) Martha Wentworth (Mim) Junius Matthews (Archimedes) Bill Lee, Sally Sweetland (Vocalists). Disney Legend Thurl Ravenscroft took to the microphone in the persona of the scaly scamp in an album loosely connected to the 1941 studio pseudo-docu-comedy.ĭisneyland Records DQ-1301 (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Mono)
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