12 Facts About Melody Time

Melody Time brought the rain from California to save Texas from the drought.

Songs in Melody Time were all "largely based around contemporary music and musical performances".

Melody Time is considered to be the last anthology feature made by Walt Disney Productions .

Melody Time was the last film The Andrews Sisters took part in.

Melody Time was the last feature film to include Donald Duck and Jose Carioca until the 1988 Touchstone Pictures film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Melody Time was unusual in that, until 1998, it remained "one of the handful of Disney's animated features yet to be released on videocassette".

Melody Time said that by this time the post-war formula of releasing anthologies had become "tired", with only a few of the segments being interesting, and feeling as if the animators kept "pushing for something more creative to do".

Melody Time commented that the film, a "vast underachievement" for Disney, felt dated like its predecessor Make Mine Music, and added that he found it hard to believe that the artists who made this film had made Pinocchio eight years before.

Melody Time spoke about the "stellar special effects" involved in the dynamite exploding Ethel Smith's organ instrument, in the segment Blame it on the Samba.

Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record author H Arlo Nimmo said "in general, [the Andrew Sisters-sung] Melody Time holds up well, and the story of 'Little Toot' is as appealing to today as when it originally appeared fifty-some years ago".

Melody Time included Metronome's indifferent comment: "The Andrew Sisters sing a silly song about a tugboat".

Melody Time adds jokingly that "perhaps Roy Rogers was covering the eyes of Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten during this scene".