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“#Why Isn’t Disney’s Make Mine Music Streaming? \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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One of the easiest, most painless binge-watching projects you could embark upon during the pandemic is to dive into the canon of Walt Disney Animation Studios films. Sure, you could add Pixar to the list, but getting to experience the depth and breadth of mainstream animation history, from <\/span>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>Raya and the Last Dragon<\/span><\/i>, would be an effective crash course, and a mighty enjoyable one to boot thanks to the still fairly young streaming service Disney+.<\/span><\/p>\n

But while Disney+ enables viewers to stream everything from Marvel superhero fare to old <\/span>Star Wars<\/span><\/i> TV movies<\/a> to National Geographic specials, there\u2019s an odd gap in that animation crash course, one you might not even be aware exists. That gap is the package film <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/i><\/strong>, which turns 75 today. You might figure today\u2019s a fine day to watch <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> considering that birthday \u2013 how better to celebrate? Sadly, you\u2019re out of luck: it\u2019s the only Disney animated film that\u2019s not streaming on Disney+. In fact, <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> has never been available for streaming or purchase on Blu-ray. This is the kind of film that would make a perfect selection for the Out of the Disney Vault column <\/span>here <\/span>at \/Film, except it\u2019s still locked in that vault. The obvious question is: why?<\/span><\/p>\n

Disney+ has not shied away, to an extent, towards acknowledging the fraught past of the company of which it\u2019s part. Though there were baseless rumors in advance of the streaming service going live that films such as <\/span>Dumbo<\/span><\/i> would be censored, the 1941 classic was available in full on the launch date, racially offensive crows and roustabouts and all. When the service started in November 2019, the only notable inclusion was a brief message on the page of an offending film, short, or show on the streamer, warning anyone who sought it out that they might be in for a problematic viewing affair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within the last year, Disney+ has been slightly more proactive in framing films like <\/span>Peter Pan<\/span><\/i> or <\/span>The Jungle Book<\/span><\/i>. Now, when you click Play on these titles, there\u2019s a 10-second content warning that encourages viewers to visit a Disney <\/span>website<\/span><\/a>\u00a0talking about how stories matter and how the studio is trying to combat negative depictions of people of color. (That site was unveiled in mid-October of 2020, and it doesn\u2019t app<\/a>ear to have been updated in the last six months, including the minor grammatical error of omitting the word \u201cthe\u201d from <\/span>The Aristocats<\/span><\/i>.) And if your family has a child-facing profile on Disney+, these films won\u2019t even be available to stream, as has been already yelled about angrily by conservative members of the media<\/a> who want to revive the idiotic culture wars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disney+ has, in short, acknowledged the creative failings and stereotypes of the studio\u2019s earlier films, without automatically hiding them and without contextualizing or explaining them. (Yes, child profiles can\u2019t watch some of these films, but\u2026y\u2019know, it wouldn\u2019t be hard to get around that problem while staying on the site.) So what makes <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> so unique? There are few major feature films from Disney\u2019s earliest days that aren\u2019t available on Disney+, and they mostly don\u2019t require explanation. (You can wonder why <\/span>Song of the South<\/span><\/i> isn\u2019t available, but\u2026come on. You know why.) <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> is a much more unassuming affair, the third package film from Disney and the first released after the end of World War II.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The film is comprised of ten shorts, some of which have survived long past the film\u2019s release thanks to appearing in other home-media compilations like <\/span>The Disneyland Anthology<\/span><\/i> and having aired on\u00a0<\/span>The Magical World of Disney<\/span><\/i> in the late 1980s and 1990s. But if you don\u2019t have your old home media stashed away somewhere, you\u2019d have to resort to searching on YouTube or other video-sharing sites right now to find any of this film\u2019s segments. There\u2019s little doubt that if <\/span>Make Mine Music <\/span><\/i>did ever wind up on Disney+, it <\/span>would <\/span><\/i>need to have the content warning affixed in front of it, for content in three different shorts within the overall film. Though it\u2019s not entirely clear that the film deserves to remain unseen officially.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most obvious case of a content warning being necessary is \u201cThe Martins and the Coys\u201d, a stylized take on the Western saga of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Though its gun-driven violence is deliberately cartoonish, it\u2019s\u2026well, gun-driven violence. \u201cThe Martins and the Coys\u201d was edited out of the American VHS and DVD release of <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i>, just over 20 years ago, for similar concerns. On one hand, there\u2019s no explanation needed for wanting to avoid the depiction of gunplay on Disney+ \u2013 at heart, the company is defined by being for people of all ages, and gunplay doesn\u2019t strike the right chord.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHowever, if you were so inclined, you could easily find gunplay and violence on the whole in other films on Disney+, from the sci-fi violence of the <\/span>Star Wars<\/span><\/i> films to superhero action in the MCU to \u2013 more pressingly \u2013\u00a0<\/span>Melody Time<\/span><\/i>. That 1948 package film, much like <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i>, has a smattering of short films including a Western-themed story with a fair amount of gunplay. That would be \u201cPecos Bill\u201d, the climax of <\/span>Melody Time<\/span><\/i>. This isn\u2019t to defend \u201cPecos Bill\u201d, whose song is very catchy but whose content is troublesome even beyond the gunplay, with lyrics that employ lazy and insulting stereotypes of Native American culture. The point is simple: if <\/span>Melody Time<\/span><\/i> can be streamed on Disney+, why not <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, \u201cThe Martins and the Coys\u201d, as brightly colored and bouncy as it is, is just one of three shorts posing a problem within <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i>. There\u2019s also \u201cAll the Cats Join In\u201d, a jazz-infused sequence performed by Benny Goodman and his orchestra, depicting 40s-era teenyboppers hanging out at the local soda shoppe. The song is a lot of fun, and the pencil-driven animation \u2013 throughout the five-minute short, you can see an animator\u2019s pencil sketching in characters and locations \u2013 is cleverly employed. However, some of the teenage dancing throughout the short is perhaps a little more aggressive and sexual than you might expect from Disney fare. Is it as flagrant or troubling as the sexual content in a film like <\/span>Splash<\/span><\/i>, which you can stream right now on Disney+? There\u2019s the rub.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last, there\u2019s \u201cThe Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met\u201d, a short about\u2026well, just read the title. With all of the character voices provided by legendary opera singer and actor Nelson Eddy, \u201cThe Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met\u201d is a strangely haunting and distinctive extended short, both memorable and a strange choice for a closing section to an otherwise upbeat package film. Early in the short, we get evidence of Willie the Whale\u2019s inexplicable ability to not only sing, but to sing with the booming baritone of an opera legend, as he sings \u201cShortnin\u2019 Bread\u201d, an African-American folk song of the turn of the 20th century at one point. That means you get to hear Eddy\u2019s booming, very patrician and old-fashioned voice saying \u201cchillun\u201d instead of \u201cchildren\u201d in lyrics like \u201cThree little chillun, lyin\u2019 in bed\/two were sick and the other most dead.\u201d It would be questionable to put this on the same level of racial offensiveness as <\/span>Song of the South<\/span><\/i> or <\/span>Dumbo<\/span><\/i>, with its faceless roustabouts and quintet of crows. But that doesn\u2019t make the song in <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> any less uncomfortable to experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The debate for <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> is far bigger than the 1946 film itself. The question at heart as you watch this film \u2013 and just because it\u2019s not on Disney+ doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t find its disparate pieces on legally accessible sites like YouTube \u2013 is why <\/span>this<\/span><\/i> movie isn\u2019t appropriate for inclusion. Disney+ has content warnings, and it offers a lot of films (including some pretty popular animated titles) that absolutely earn those warnings, both well-known and lesser-loved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt, Disney\u2019s Twitter accounts \u2013 likely the Walt Disney Archives and\/or the Disney Animation accounts \u2013 may make a cursory nod to the premiere of the film on this date 75 years ago. (I\u2019m writing these words a few days before its anniversary, so we\u2019ll see if I\u2019m right.) But <\/span>Make Mine Music<\/span><\/i> is a strange title to occupy the moniker of being the only Disney Animation in-canon feature not available to stream on Disney+. To deny its problematic qualities is foolish. To imply that those qualities are so distinctive as to make its presence unlikely is misleading at best and insulting at worst. Maybe someone at Disney can read this and convince the right people to make it available. It\u2019s long overdue.<\/span>
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