The Reluctant Dragon
1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Humorist Robert Benchley visits the Disney Studios to sell Walt on the idea of animating the story of The Reluctant Dragon. While evading an officious young studio guide, Benchley stumbles into various studio activities and departments, including an art class, a sound effects session, the multiplane camera studio (at which point he notices the film has switched to Technicolor), the paint lab, a storyboard session for the "Baby Weems" segment, a movieola screening of the Goofy cartoon "How to Ride a Horse", and finally catches up with Walt in a screening room just as he's previewing the studio's latest film... The Reluctant Dragon!
Direction Alfred L. Werker · Hamilton Luske · Jack Cutting · Ub Iwerks · Jack Kinney
Cast Robert Benchley · Frances Gifford · Buddy Pepper · Nana Bryant · Claud Allister · Gerald Mohr · Barnett Parker · Billy Lee · Lester Dorr · Frank Faylen · Wolfgang Reitherman · Walt Disney · Alan Ladd
Soundtrack Frank Churchill · Larry Morey
Screenplay Ted Sears · Al Perkins · Larry Clemmons · William Cottrell · Harry Clork · Kenneth Grahame · Erdman Penner · T. Hee · Joe Grant · Dick Huemer · John P. Miller
Original title The Reluctant Dragon / Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studio
Also known as A Day at Disneys
5.9
525 votes (FilmAffinity)
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