| The Reluctant Dragon | |
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| 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 | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000[2] |
| Box office | $960,000 (worldwide rentals) [3] |
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.[1][4] 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 are 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 book of the same name. The total length of all animated parts is 40 minutes.
- ^ a b "The Reluctant Dragon: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
- ^ Maltin, Leonard (2000). The Disney Films, p. 46. (Fourth edition.) New York: Disney Editions. ISBN 0-7868-8527-0
- ^ "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1994.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 200. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.