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This movie and Saludos Amigos were created by Disney in order to improve the United States of America's relations with South American countries during World War II.
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Features the return of José (or Joe, or Zé, as he is known in original Brazilian Portuguese) Carioca, the Brazilian parrot first featured in Saludos Amigos.
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The song "You Belong to My Heart" was later featured in a Disney short called Pluto's Blue Note and eventually recorded by Bing Crosby.
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Clarence Nash also provides the voice of Donald Duck in the Spanish-dubbed version, giving Donald a charming American accent that complements José Carioca's Brazilian and Panchito's Northern Mexican ones.
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The Pablo the Penguin segment features a shot of a penguin diving into the water. This animation is taken from the Silly Symphony Peculiar Penguins.
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With the exception of Mickey Mouse's brief appearance in Fantasia, this was the first time Walt Disney attempted to combine animation with live actors since the Alice Comedies in the 1920s.
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The music for the title song is the Mexican folk standard "Ay, Jalisco, No Te Rajes." Panchito sings some of the original lyrics just before making his entrance and again at the end of the musical number.
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The famed cartoonist Don Rosa made several sequels to this story in printed comics, setting José and Panchito up as Donald's only true friends. This is one of the few stories that he worked in to his Duck universe that is not part of the Barks canon.
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