Melody Time

Melody Time is an animated musical comedy consisting of seven distinct stories. The film blends various musical styles, including jazz, samba, country, and blues, to tell tales featuring characters such as Donald Duck, a busy bumblebee, a small tugboat, and folk heroes like Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.

Produced by Walt Disney, the film was co-directed by Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney. For Luske, this was the ninth of 15 directed films, following Mickey and the Beanstalk. It was the twelfth of 17 for Jackson, coming after Song of the South. Geronimi directed this as his eighth of 15 films, following Make Mine Music, while it served as the seventh of nine directed works for Kinney. The screenplay was written by Clyde Geronimi, Erdman Penner, and Joe Rinaldi. The voice cast includes Roy Rogers, Dennis Day, Freddy Martin, Frances Langford, Ethel Smith, and Trigger.

The production had a budget of 2 million USD and earned 5 million USD at the worldwide box office. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.1/10 based on 7,800 votes, and it has a matching rating of 6.1/10 on TMDB from 354 votes. Film critics gave the movie a slightly higher rating of 6.4/10 across 13 reviews.