Sinfonia Amazônica

Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, is a 1954 Brazilian animated musical movie, produced entirely by Anélio Latini Filho over five years and finished in 1951.

Plot
Seven folk stories from the North Region of Brazil (The Legend of the Night; The Formation of the Amazonian River; The Legend of the Fire; Caipora; The Jabuti and the Jaguar; Iara; and The Legend of the Rainbow) are interconnected by a little indian named Curumi and his Amazonian River dolphin friend as they go around the forest.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is the first feature-length animated film to be produced on Brazil.
 * 2) Like Walt Disney's Fantasia, the stories are presented with beautiful orchestral music.
 * 3) The animation is spetacular, with expressive movements and cute designs for the characters.
 * 4) Splendid voicing cast.
 * 5) Fairly well-drawn backgrounds.
 * 6) Each of the stories are interesting to see.
 * 7) Took about five years (from 1947 to 1951) for Anélio Latini Filho to get the film done, and with the help of a few contributors (including his brother Mário Latini), it was eventually released. Brazilians never give up, indeed!
 * 8) * He did about 500.000 drawings and created his own sonorization methods for this film all by himself.
 * 9) ** Before the movie properly starts, we are first looking at a making-of showing Anélio's working routine and details about the evolution of its production.
 * 10) Years after being released, the movie was restored in its entirely by Arwel Art, as you can see on the video below.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) Working on this movie was the big cause of a pulmonar problem who debilited Anélio Latini Filho, and later turned out to be a cancer, thus ending his promissor life, according to some people who were close to him.

Video
