Walt Disney had great taste in music. This is an example of how varied his films could be in both music and visuals.
Nobody did surreal like Walt Disney and his artists. We will never see the likes of such sophisticated, technically precise hand-made animation again, nor probably an imagination such as this.
Here's the extended sequence, with subtitles. It's surprising what their word is for The End.
The Three Caballeros was the second Disney feature to be part of the Good Neighbor program initiated in the 1940's between the United States and Latin American countries during World War II. The Disney studio had been commandeered by the US military to create training and informational films, including many for Central and South American markets, and Three Caballeros was the ultimate example of making a good thing out of a bad situation.
The movie is a fiesta of flavors and accents in a concoction of mind-bending animation. The Three Caballeros presents the cartoon in its more purely realized philosophy, where logic bends but always makes sense. Donald floating weightlessly infatuated, falling through a picture, dancing with a cactus chorus, the limits of cartoon logic are explored and exploited in rapidly changing setups.
Many of the technical elements and achievements in this film were developed by Disney's passion for excellence and industry. They were forged through years of awful Silly Symphonies into examples such as Fantasia and this film, which are unparalleled even by Disney studio standards.
This film marks the true debut of Mary Blair's distinctive styling, which would ultimately explode in the vibrant and mystically childlike Disney attraction "It's A Small World."
