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3	->''A musical fantasy in ten parts.''
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5	Released in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1946]], ''Make Mine Music''[[note]]occasionally formatted as ''Make Mine Music!''[[/note]] is the 8th film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon.
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7	In light of World War II, a large portion of Disney's animators were drafted. In order to keep making movies, Disney had to settle with releasing package films. ''Make Mine Music'' is the first of these films (Although ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' can be included too, they were a product of the government wanting to make friends with South America, not because of a lack of animators.) Unlike most other Disney animated features from before the age of home video, this was never given a theatrical re-release. Sometimes, however, the individual segments were each tacked onto another Disney release. It is also the last one from Walt Disney's lifetime to be released on home video, and the only one absent from Creator/DisneyPlus.[[note]]Once Disney+ added ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' in June 2020 and ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' in December 2020, ''Make Mine Music'' became the only Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon movie, among those released before Disney+'s launch, absent from the service. Although, some clips from the "Blue Bayou" segment appear as part of an episode of ''Zenimation''.[[/note]]
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9	As the name implies, the movie is a music-based AnimatedAnthology in a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', divided into 10 separate shorts. As with many of the Disney package films of this period, the segments would occasionally be aired separately as part of various Disney anthology TV shows in the 80s and 90s. The shorts that comprise the film consist of the following:
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11	* ''The Martins and the Coys'': "A rustic ballad" about two FeudingFamilies, the Martins and the Coys, whose feud eventually kills all but one member of each family, Gracie Martin and Henry Coy. The two survivors fall in love.
12	* ''Blue Bayou'' is an unused ''Fantasia'' segment, originally set to Claude Debussy's ''Clair de Lune''.( The unabridged ''Clair de Lune'' version was eventually restored as a separate short.)
13	* ''All the Cats Join In'' is about a group of teenagers, or "hep cats," who get together at the local malt shop and dance around. Most of the scenery and characters are drawn by an artist with a pencil, in a similar style to Aquarela do Brasil from ''Saludos Amigos''
14	* ''Without You'' is a song about lost love, with accompanying visuals. The lovers in question are never shown.
15	* ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat'' is the classic story of the over-confident all-star.
16	* ''Two Silhouettes'' features two live-action silhouettes dancing to ballet music. Creator/DinahShore performed the song.
17	* ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' is an adaptation of the composition about a young boy who sets out to kill the local wolf.
18	* ''After You've Gone'' is about a set of musical instruments that come to life and begin dancing.
19	* ''Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet'' is the story of two love-struck hats in a department store that become separated when Alice is purchased.
20	* ''The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met'' is about an incredibly gifted whale named Willie, that can not only sing Opera, but sing in three distinct voices at once thanks to his three uvulas. When he hears impresario Tetti-Tatti [[note]]a play on the name of Metropolitan Opera general manager Giulio Gatti-Cassazza[[/note]] is searching for him, he eagerly jumps at the call, unaware that Tetti-Tatti is actually hunting him because he thinks Willie has swallowed an undiscovered opera singer as opposed to ''being'' the singer.
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23	!!'''These shorts provide examples of''':
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25	* AcademicAlphaBitch: Implied. ''All the Cats Join In'' has a brief shot of a stereotypically nerdy-looking girl (NerdGlasses, carrying loads of books, [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack wearing a school uniform worn by no one else]]) who appears just long enough to turn up her nose at the cool kids headed to the malt shop.
26	* AdaptationExpansion: See {{Disneyfication}} below.
27	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Some of the headlines from "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met":
28	--> '''"Seaman Sites Singing Sea Monster! 'Stone Sober' Salt Swears!"'''
29	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: In ''All the Cats Join In'', the teenage girl gives her younger sister one after beating her to the phone.
30	* AlcoholHic: Grandpa Coy.
31	* AlliterativeTitle: '''M'''ake '''M'''ine '''M'''usic!.
32	* AnimalGenderBender: While it’s unclear exactly what species of duck Sonia is supposed to be, her brightly colored feathers would be more expected on a male duck, the green coloration being reminiscent of a mallard duck. This despite being female, which would normally have duller gray or brown colors.
33	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: In ''All the Cats Join In'', the teenage girl seems to have one, a sister.
34	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The eponymous wolf in the ''Peter and the Wolf'' short can roar like a lion. Nuff said.
35	* BanisterSlide: "All The Cats Join In". After the teenage girl walks down the stairs to her house, the animator draws a railing. The girl's AnnoyingYoungerSibling younger sister jumps up on the railing and slides down it.
36	* BigRedDevil: In "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met", Willie dresses like this while playing Mephistophiles in ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''.
37	* BigThinShortTrio: The hunters from ''Peter and the Wolf'' : Misha (big), Yasha (thin) and Vladimir (short).
38	* BirdPoopGag: In "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met", there are seagulls in the audience. The spectators below them wear their programs on their heads for fear of being pooped on.
39	* BittersweetEnding:
40	** [[spoiler:Yeah, Willie's been harpooned and killed, but he continues to sing in heaven. Since it's the last segment of the movie, it can be seen as this for the movie as a whole.]]
41	** [[spoiler:Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet are together... both discarded by their former owners, with holes cut in them, as the hats of street horses.]]
42	* {{Bowdlerise}}:
43	** ''The Martins and the Coys'' was removed from the original Gold Classic Collection VHS and DVD release of the movie, and the Disney Movie Club Exclusive Blu-ray, for excessive gunplay.
44	** Some versions also digitally erase some side boob in ''All the Cats Join In'' (more info at Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Mine_Music#Theatrical_and_Home_Video_Releases here]]; see also video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5M_no89ZRc here]]).
45	** "Blue Bayou" AKA "Clair De Lune" was intended as a full segment for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped as a victim of Fantasia being too long as it already was. The version used here is a edited down version. Fortunately, the full uncut version (which was salvaged from an extremely rare workprint) was included as an extra on the Fantasia Anthology DVD and the Best of Mickey Blu-ray.
46	* CatsAreMean: Or, more appropriately, cats are sneaky.
47	* CatUpATree: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. In this case, Ivan is up the tree not as a DistressedDude, but so that he can finally capture the wolf.
48	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Martins wear blue and have red hair, while the Coys wear red and have black hair (though Henry is curiously blond).
49	* DagwoodSandwich: The soda jerk in ''All the Cats Join In'' seems to make one (complete with toothpick and olive), but it's really a stack of sandwiches that he slides down the counter so everyone can take one (leaving the last guy with only the toothpick and olive).
50	* DeadHatShot: From ''Peter and the Wolf'':
51	** In the short, the wolf chases the duck into a tree, and comes out with feathers flying, licking its chops. [[spoiler:Subverted when the duck turns up alive at the end.]]
52	** Again subverted with a literal DeadHatShot greeting the three hunters, who immediately assume Peter's been killed.
53	* DisneyAcidSequence: "After You've Gone."
54	* DisneyDeath:
55	** Despite [[spoiler:Sonia]]'s spirit entering the pearly gates; presumably this image is just Peter and friends' imagination. It's notable as being one of the earliest examples of the trope, following [[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Snow White\|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'s]] and [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'s]], and possibly the first ever straight example of the trope, as both [[spoiler:Snow White]] and [[spoiler:Pinocchio]] were [[DeathIsCheap more or less dead]] and revived afterwards, whereas [[spoiler:Sonia was alive the whole time]].
56	** Peter gets this, too, although it doesn't last as long.
57	* {{Disneyfication}}:
58	** The story of ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' is changed around a bit, giving names to the various characters among other things. Most significantly, the duck, which is devoured by the wolf in the original story, is alive and well at the end, being in hiding after the wolf attacks it.
59	** Downplayed for ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat''. While most of the climax (including the DownerEnding) is kept word-for-word, the earlier verses are rewritten to accompany more cartoony antics. A sung chorus is also added.
60	* DownerEnding: Two shorts end on a bad note for the protagonist, though of the PlayedForLaughs sort.
61	** ''Casey At The Bat'' ends on one. "There is no joy in Mudville. For Mighty Casey has struck out." Though there is a sequel short that gives Casey a happy ending.
62	** Willie the opera-singing whale [[spoiler: who is harpooned to death by Tetti-Tatti. Because this is the final segment of the movie, it could be seen as one for the movie as a whole, although it is more of a BittersweetEnding, as we see the whale has gone onto heaven, still singing.]]
63	* DownToTheLastPlay: ''Casey At The Bat''.
64	* EverybodyCries: This trope is used twice during ''Peter and the Wolf''. In the first instance, Peter, Ivan, and Sasha cry over [[spoiler: Sonia's [[DisneyDeath apparent demise]] at the hands of the wolf]]. In the second instance, Misha, Yasha, and Vladimir [[InelegantBlubbering burst out crying]] when it briefly looks like Peter has been eaten by the wolf.
65	* {{Expy}}: Tetti-Tatti, of Captain Ahab from ''Literature/MobyDick'', and of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the real Metropolitan Opera's general manager from 1908 to 1935.
66	* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: In the opening of ''The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met'', the newspaper headlining the singing whale is being hocked by a newsboy who shouts this phrase.
67	* FakeOutOpening: The title card and name of ''All the Cats Join In'' suggests the short will be about cats. The artist even starts drawing a cat before abruptly erasing it and drawing a human instead.
68	* {{Fanservice}}:
69	** In ''All the Cats Join In'', there's a sequence in which a teenage girl strips down and takes a shower, then gets dressed. Although no "naughty bits" appear, the scene is surprisingly explicit for a Disney film.
70	** Gracie from ''The Martins And The Coys''. That skirt sure flaps around a lot ...
71	* FeudingFamilies: ''The Martins and the Coys''; the spirits of the departed family members aren't thrilled when the last survivors of each get together, but they perk up when it turns out their marriage is ''incredibly'' troubled.
72	* HappilyEverAfter: Played with oddly in ''The Martins and The Coys'' where the spirits of the two respective families are initially appalled at the idea of the two families living HappilyEverAfter... then come Gracie and Henry's [[AwfulWeddedLife marital spats]].
73	* HitFlash: Happens when Henry runs back into the house, only to run into Gracie's fist.
74	* HotBlooded: Sascha the bird in ''Peter and the Wolf''.
75	* IncrediblyLongNote: Nelson Eddy begins "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing At the Met" with a long operatic note that causes a powerful wind storm where various papers are seen blowing around, and even a witch on a broomstick.
76	* IndyHatRoll: Sascha barely escapes being eaten by the wolf, but when he notices his hat is missing, he flies back into the back of his mouth to retrieve it.
77	* InelegantBlubbering:
78	** In ''Peter and the Wolf'', the hunters cry in this manner when they think that Peter has been killed by the wolf.
79	** In the ending of "Casey at the Bat," Casey also blubbers after striking out at a major baseball game.
80	** In "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met", Willie cries whale-sized tears while performing "Vesti la Giubba" from ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}''
81	* InspectorJavert: Tetti-Tatti, who is determined to harpoon Willie and save the (non-existent) opera singers he supposedly swallowed..
82	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ivan the Cat in ''Peter and the Wolf''.
83	* KidHero: Peter in ''Peter and the Wolf''.
84	* LargeHam: Jerry Colonna, when singing and narrating ''Casey at the Bat''.
85	* {{Leitmotif}}: As explained at the beginning of ''Peter and the Wolf'':
86	** Peter: The string quartet
87	** Sascha: Flute
88	** Sonia: Oboe
89	** Ivan: Clarinet
90	** Grandfather: Bassoon
91	** Hunters' gunshots: Drums
92	** Wolf: French horns
93	* LighterAndFluffier: This applies to ''Peter and the Wolf'', somewhat, mainly because [[spoiler: Sonia the duck isn't eaten by the wolf after all.]]
94	* LiteralAssKicking: Gracie does this to Henry in the end.
95	* LoveAtFirstSight
96	* MaltShop: The setting for ''All the Cats Join In''.
97	* MickeyMousing: Oddly, ''Peter And The Wolf'' spends the first two minutes explaining how this works, and which characters are represented by which instruments in case you didn't know, or couldn't figure it out by watching.[[note]]This is actually the standard for the piece, as it was created to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra.[[/note]]
98	* MoodWhiplash: "The Whale That Wanted To Sing At The Met" [[spoiler:has Willie meeting Tetti-Tatti's expedition and singing to them. Everybody is overjoyed and even sing along (and are occasionally punching Tetti-Tatti as he alone tries to shoot) and Willie is hired and is singing at the Met and getting magazine covers and first-page articles in newspapers... and then [[DyingDream boom!]] Turns out that while everybody else was distracted with Willie's singing, Tetti-Tatti finally got a clear shot with his harpoon gun and shot him and is screaming a victorious "I got him! I got him!" while the other whalers are wrestling him to the ground and Willie is thrashing around in his death throes.]]
99	* NerfArm: Peter's pop-gun.
100	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Peter and the Wolf'', after the wolf has been captured, Sascha is seen crying over Sonia's death when the duck comes out of hiding and joins him and crying for a few seconds before Sascha notices that Sonia is alive]].
101	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The short doesn't show how Peter manages to subdue and tie up the wolf.
102	* OutfitDecoy: In "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet", one of Johnnie's adventures while he's searching for Alice is to be used as the hat-on-a-stick during a gang shootout.
103	* ThePearlyGates: When Sonia the duck is [[spoiler:seemingly]] eaten by the wolf in "Peter and the Wolf", the others imagine her waving goodbye as she is about to cross the gates to Heaven.
104	** At the end of "The Whale who Wanted to Sing at the Met", Willie the whale is singing to a packed house in Heaven; the final shot is of a "Sold Out" sign on the Pearly Gates.
105	* PoorCommunicationKills: Literally. [[spoiler: If only Willie had been able to talk to Tetti-Tatti, the impresario wouldn't have killed him in a misguided attempt to "rescue" the opera singers he believed the whale had swallowed]].
106	* QuakingWithFear:
107	** In "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met", as Willie performs as Mephistopheles in Gounod's ''Faust'', the Firemen tremble before him.
108	** In "Casey at the Bat", just like in the [[Literature/CaseyAtTheBat original story]], one of the pitchers trembles at the knees when he got nervous.
109	** In "Peter and the Wolf", the camera itself does this when the wolf snaps and snarls at the audience.
110	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The ''Martins and the Coys'' segment is a loose adaptation of the real-life Hatfield–[=McCoy=] feud from the Mid-to-Late 19th Century.
111	* SapientCetaceans: The segment called "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met" is about a whale who was able to sing opera - in three different voices! - and whose big wish is to perform on the New York Metropolitan Opera. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he is killed by a misguided opera impresario who thought he was rescuing opera singers in the whale's belly.]]
112	* SavageWolves: The eponymous wolf in ''Peter and the Wolf''.
113	* SexySilhouette: Not in ''Two Silhouettes'', as one may assume, but in ''All the Cats Join In'', when the teenage girl goes to take a shower and strips down behind the screen door, where we can only see her naked silhouette.
114	* SoloDuet: Willie can sing in multiple voices.: Tenor, baritone, and bass.
115	* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sonia the Duck manages to evade the wolf and survive. In the original story, the duck gets eaten, although she's said to be still alive inside the wolf's belly because she was SwallowedWhole.]]
116	* SpinningPaper: The opening of ''The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met'', as we are told about the discovery of said whale. WorstNewsJudgmentEver is averted as the stories about Willie begin in small columns at the back of the paper, gradually becoming a front page story as the story gains notoriety.
117	* StockScream: Goofy's scream is used while the Martins were shooting Grandpa Coy.
118	* StockSoundEffect: Dopey's crying from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' is used twice when Sasha mourns for Sonia's apparent death.
119	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: At first it seems that ''Peter and the Wolf'' will end with a BittersweetEnding since although the wolf has been caught, Sasha is unable to enjoy the victory due to being too distraught by Sonia's apparent death at the hands of the wolf. [[spoiler: Only it turns out that Sonia ''wasn't'' eaten alive by the wolf and was in fact hiding within the hollow trunk of a tree the entire time. As soon as Sonia reveals herself to be alive and well, Sasha gleefully embraces her and the segment ends with the two avians rushing off to join in the celebration of Peter's victory over the wolf.]]
120	* TokenEvilTeammate: Ivan the Cat in ''Peter and the Wolf'' at first, then subverted.
121	* TrueCompanions: In ''Peter and the Wolf'', Peter's party seem to be these.
122	* UglyGuyHotWife: Henry and Gracie (though to be fair, Henry is at least attractive compared to the rest of his family).
123	* WindsAreGhosts: [[spoiler: In ''The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met'', after Willie is harpooned, the moment of his death is indicated by a gust of wind rising up from the sea toward the sky.]]
124	* WordSaladTitle: It's safe to say that ''Make Mine Music'' has confused a lot of kids, especially if they haven't yet learned alternate syntax and don't know that "mine" here is a pronoun, not an adjectival noun (i.e., "As for me, I'll take some music"). There have probably been a lot of mistaken notions that the title refers to making music while mining (which really is done in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''!).

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