"A Special Cartoon"

Release Date January 7, 1944

Synopsis

Monte is a sleeepwalking pelican whose talents come in handy when he has to rescue his friend, Vidi from a wartime bombing raid.

Characters

Monte

Vidi

Credits

Director : Hamilton Luske

Animation : Ward Kimball

Story : Del Connell

Cut Scenes

A shot showing the pelican on the chopping block with an ax poised above his head has been cut.

Videos

Germany

Donald Macht nie Pause

Italy

Disney Adventures

Laserdiscs

Japan

Disney Cartoon Festival 6

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts, 1920s - 1960s

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #21 : Goin' to the Birds

The Ink and Paint Club : #56 : Wartime Disney

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Comments

This short was originally slated to be a part of "The Three Caballeros" feature, but was never used and released separately.

From Marco Merkelijn : About the cut scene: I just saw the short, first time I saw it by the way. The cut scene is in there, the snipe thinks of a solution to protect his friend and get some sleep. You see the scene in a "thinking cloud."

From Jerry Edwards : Sterling Holloway narrates how Vidi, the snipe, spends his nights keeping his "sleep-flying" friend Monte, the pelican, out of harms way where they live - on top of a lighthouse near Montevideo, Uruguay. Monte does not realize that he sleep-flies and accuses Vidi of trying to kill him when an anchor attached to Monte's foot drags Monte underwater instead of keeping him from flying. Monte demands that Vidi leave, but then has no one to help keep him safe the next night. Monte realizes his error when he is almost hit by aircraft on night maneuvers and awakens just in time to save his friend Vidi from aircraft target bombing practice.

Nicely animated, but not that interesting to me.

From Ryan : This short was not all that interesting to me. I guess because I just found no humor in the poor snipe having to stay awake all night to keep the pelican from "sleepflying."

From Baruch Weiss : This short was not interesting to me either, I think I may have heard stories like this before. However, I did enjoy the scene where Monty sleep flies and the music from "The Little Whirlwind" is heard.

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