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The Reluctant Dragon
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6.6Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
Cast
- Robert Benchley as Robert Benchley
- Frances Gifford as Doris
- Buddy Pepper as Humphrey
- Nana Bryant as Mrs. Benchley
- Claud Allister as Sir Giles (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
- Barnett Parker as Dragon (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
Themes
- dragon
- live action and animation
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Werker (live action), Hamilton Luske (animation), Jack Cutting , Ub Iwerks , Jack Kinney (sequence directors)
- Written by
- Live-action: , Ted Sears , Al Perkins , Larry Clemmons , Bill Cottrell , Harry Clork , Robert Benchley , The Reluctant Dragon segment:, Kenneth Grahame (original book), Erdman Penner , T. Hee , Baby Weems segment:, Joe Grant , Dick Huemer , John Miller
- Produced by
- Walt Disney
- Starring
- Robert Benchley , Frances Gifford , Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant
- Cinematography
- Bert Glennon
- Edited by
- Paul Weatherwax
- Music by
- Frank Churchill , Larry Morey
- Production company
- Walt Disney Productions
- Distributed by
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Release date
- June 27, 1941 ( 1941-06-27 )
- Running time
- 74 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $600,000
- Box office
- $960,000 (worldwide rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- anthology film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Screenwriter
- William Cottrell
- Cast member
- Billy Lee
- Voice actor
- Gerald Mohr
- Composer
- Charles Wolcott
- Producer
- Walt Disney
- Production company
- The Walt Disney Company
- Cinematographer
- Winton Hoch
- Duration
- 72
- FilmAffinity ID
- 238034
- Official website
- movies.disney.com/the-reluctant-dragon
Show 10 more facts
- publication date
- 1943-03-01
- title
- The Reluctant Dragon
- after a work by
- Kenneth Grahame
- distributed by
- Disney+
- color
- black-and-white
- storyboard artist
- David S. Hall
- production code
- 2005
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- Commons category
- The Reluctant Dragon (film)
- form of creative work
- feature film
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Encyclopedic overview
The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American live-action/animated anthology comedy film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941. Essentially a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California, the film stars Algonquin Round Table member, film actor, writer and comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all as themselves.
The first twenty minutes of the film is in black-and-white, and the remainder is in Technicolor. Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo; and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems (presented as a storyboard), Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame's short story of the same name. The total length of all animated parts is 40 minutes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Reluctant Dragon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.