A completely unique style for Disney. One of their last short cartoons during Walt's life. For those of us who know Westport now, this is a special treat.
What a wonderful story. It definitely belongs amongst the other Disney American legends - John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones, Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan.
I love this short by disney! You can still catch this on the Disney treasures collections on DVD! Makes me sad about the sea captain if he and his beloved are still sailing the skies or are merely doing it as a ghostly couple...😢 either way, it's still beautiful and timeless.❤
9 times out of 10, that tornado 🌪 obviously dumped them in Mexico 🇲🇽 where Windwagon Smith wound up partnering up with Alvarez Kelly in the beef 🥩 business, raising cattle that is?!
Eventually, they must have been lucky enough for the tornado to take them as far as Langtry, Texas, which allowed for them to be wed by Judge Roy Bean aka The Law West of the Pecos. After which they headed for Mexico 🇲🇽 where they partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle industry.
I hadn't thought about this cartoon for 50 years or so but recognised it straight away - I must have seen it when the BBC showed "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" on British TV in the mid-1970's. Must have made an impression to have stuck in my memory!
What makes this funny and unique as you think this would be a Warner Brothers short considering the dynamic art style and colorful cast of characters! This was at a time when Disney and WB were great rivals with their animation!
And all of the short subject pictures from both studios need more theatrical screen time so customers at the movie theatres won’t have to gripe about the local businesses advertising on theatre screens no more.
I don't know if they wrote this themselves, but this stanza form is what literature calls "the Chevy-Chase-verse", famously used in "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" and Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark".
But while old Pecos disappeared after losing Slewfoot Sue, Windwagon Smith and Molly on the other hand wound up in Mexico 🇲🇽 most likely because that tornado 🌪 took them as far as the Rio Grande where they were married by Judge Roy Bean before heading for Durango where Smith partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business for the remainder of their days.
I have always had a preference for Disney's unusual animations rather than any of the regular character shows. Even several of the ones made for the military in the 40's.🤔
@LindaCooper Since we are unlikely to get what we want, I will propose a possible win-win. Bring back the shorts and keep the local ads but they all must be written and star Roger Horton.😜
@mybachhertzbaud3074, I don’t know who this Roger Horton fellow is, but advertisements for local businesses weren’t meant for showing on theatre screens. They’re getting away with showing the advertisements of local businesses on the screens at the multiplexes, but we won’t tolerate those ads on the screens of the smalltown one-screeners that are strictly ‘Mom & Pop’ types regardless of whether they’re drive-ins or walk-ins either one. Meanwhile, try getting an online petition organized to demand that either the advertisements of local businesses GO AWAY from the theatre screens for good, or have the multiplexes facing a major boycott.
That was a long time I saw this! Beautiful and sad at the same time. It's a tragic & lovely love story. I was a kid when I saw that in theaters & I understood what happened to the couple. The truth is... I cried!
@OverlordShamala, 9 times out of 10, the tornado 🌪 put them down gently near Langtry, Texas, where they were both married by Judge Roy Bean before they crossed the border into Mexico 🇲🇽, and partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
But in actuality, Windwagon Smith and Molly ended up in Mexico 🇲🇽 where they partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle 🐂 raising part of the beef 🥩 business.
I had never heard of this, and I'm an animation geek. You can REALLY see the UPA influence!!!!! I'd never seen Disney do limited amimation, which is a bit disconcerting to me. I realize budgets were being cut at that point. The cell count had to be WAY down from, say, something like BEN AND ME.
This isn't such a bad concept. Imagine being able to travel using the wind instead of train or automobile? Like you don't have to burn coal in order to work the train, it would be like sailing through the ocean except over the planes and fields. Wouldn't that be nice? It's not a bad idea. I mean, there are a lot of things that work out, but, imagine being able to sail through the land instead of flying over it in a plane?
With most of the footage used with the song “DON’T MESS WITH BILL” by the Marvellettes and the hand shaking scene with “FRIENDSHIP TRAIN” by Gladys Knight & The Pips.
It’s just about time that someone needs to get this and other short subject pictures back onto theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
I wish I had had the honour of been born in the year 1961, two years before classic Dr Who started on tv in black and white with Bill Hartnell on BBC1 and had a golden 26 year run until the late 80s when it was abruptly cancelled sadly. I know if my birth year had been in 1961 instead of been 8 years later in 1969 I would be happier and also I would be older than just 55 I would now be aged 63 instead of only 55 and also I would have been alive 8 years longer than I have been up to now.
Ofcourse, there’s also the possibility of Molly’s voice being done by dancer Helene Stanley who portrayed Polly Crockett in “DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER”?!
The only big difference being that Sue wound up on the moon while Bill returned to the coyotes. In the case of Smith and Molly, however, they most likely wound up down in Mexico 🇲🇽.
Again we have yet another follower of the philosophy of “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!” 9 times out of 10, Smith and Molly wound up in Mexico 🇲🇽 in actuality.
Disney kept all their animation in a "morgue" for future use - they might just use new art over it but it saved time - i think the Aristocats and Robin Hood use the same dance animation for Maid Marion and Duchess
Concluding with Smith and Molly being married by Judge Roy Bean before going across the border into Mexico 🇲🇽 to partner up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
Only thing is that Sluefoot Sue wound up on the moon, but the wind wagon crash landed in Mexico 🇲🇽, allowing for Captain Smith to partner up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
Meaning, that she was voiced by either Mary Costa who voiced Princess Aurora in “SLEEPING BEAUTY”, or Helene Stanley who portrayed Polly Crockett in “DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER”, because she doesn’t sound anything like Peggy Lee at all.
Would you like to see it on the screen of your neighborhood movie theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses any old day of the week?
In actuality, the tornado took them to Langtry, Texas, and Judge Roy Bean performed their wedding ceremony. After which they headed deep into Mexico 🇲🇽 where they eventually became partners with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle industry.
@@LindaCooper-i3fwhy are you so negative in response to some, and overly opinionated to many! You DO NOT need to interject your redundant comments to every post!
Allegedly died. For all we know, Smith and Molly landed the wind wagon in Mexico 🇲🇽 where they were befriended by the great Irish-Mexican rancher known as Alvarez Kelly. Smith then took Kelly’s advice and used an alias as they trailed a herd to St. Louis via Little Rock, and then the herd was purchased by a New York City meat packer, and Kelly went onto New York where he reunited with Liz Pickering and brought her back to Mexico 🇲🇽 to become his bride. To this day, descendants of the Smith and Kelly families still run the ranch or estancia as Kelly referred to it. Somehow both Molly and Liz each had a son, and their sons married the daughters of a neighboring rancher, and from the Kellys granddaughter and Smith and Molly’s grandson spawned the Columbo family; Columbo being the Italian translation for the surname of Columbus.
It should be noted that this is an American folk "tall tale," basically a fairy tale which ending can depend on the whims of the storyteller. Sometimes, they *do* end up with the protagonist dying, but that isn't a guarantee.
@LindaCooper-i3f Not sure what that even means, but this story is straight up Disney-ifaction of a different legend that itself was possibly inspired by a historical but less than notable "Thomas Smith" As such, I wouldn't take anything from this short too seriously; it's an old work of fiction inspired by another, older work(s) of fiction. As such, this story has been retold a number of times with different variations.
@matthewutech5970, For the meaning behind the phrase of “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!!!”, I highly recommend that you watch the classic John Wayne movie titled “THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE”, especially the scene when a U.S. Senator asks a small town newspaper editor why he destroyed the notes of his reporter’s interview with the senator in question.
Possibly, unless the tornado 🌪 put them down in Texas where they were promptly married by Judge Roy Bean. From there they headed into Mexico 🇲🇽, fearing that if Mayor Crumm found out about it, he’d have Smith on a gallows and Molly in a convent. Therefore, they stopped in Durango wherein they were befriended by Alvarez Kelly who Smith partnered up with the cattle business.
He obviously disguised his voice so as to not use an English accent like with Jasper in “101 DALMATIANS” or even Colonel Hathi in “THE JUNGLE BOOK”, let alone Otto the blacksmith in the 1973 animated version of “ROBIN HOOD”.
Somehow I missed seeing this on “The Wonderful World of Disney” television series when I was growing up. What a gem! I’ll take this over Disney’s current crop of gender-confused woke garbage any day.
How true that is. It’s just a short subject picture that needs to have a regular basis showing on theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
A completely unique style for Disney. One of their last short cartoons during Walt's life. For those of us who know Westport now, this is a special treat.
A suburb of Kansas City.
What a wonderful story. It definitely belongs amongst the other Disney American legends - John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones, Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan.
Now that’s the spirit.
That's a great point. Those others were mostly in the 1940s. Seems a reissuance with this included would have been appropriate.
Better to have the short subject pictures back onto theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
"I heard about sailors, you know"
And the poor sailors blushes
Preceded by the dialogue of “He was as mad as a crow.”
@@LindaCooper-i3f oh dear.
Compared with today's Disney products, this was pretty original.
It’s based on old American folklore I’m pretty sure
Amen to that!
More or less.
@@Rum-Runner I love that!
The storyline mentions nothing linked to the 18th Amendment whatsoever.
A jewel this piece of time saved online, thanks
So far so good.
This has a feeling of fun and wimsy that I REALLY haven't felt feom Disney in a long time.
This guy looks like he would fit in very well in One Piece.
Who says the creator of One Piece didn't watch this when he was a kid?😊
I would love to see this man in one piece
Obviously it looks like it.
Who knows if he did or not.
I love this short by disney! You can still catch this on the Disney treasures collections on DVD! Makes me sad about the sea captain if he and his beloved are still sailing the skies or are merely doing it as a ghostly couple...😢 either way, it's still beautiful and timeless.❤
I’d like to see it on theatre screens on a regular basis instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
They had WAY too much fun with Molly's bustle!😅
9 times out of 10, that tornado 🌪 obviously dumped them in Mexico 🇲🇽 where Windwagon Smith wound up partnering up with Alvarez Kelly in the beef 🥩 business, raising cattle that is?!
Good grief.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Y4 good grief? Animators work stuff like that into their creatons all the time.
@xaenon,
Well, be that as it may, some animators prefer it due to bats 🦇 in their belfries.
@@LindaCooper-i3f I just find it funny, is all. The bustle was a ridiculous contraption anyway.
Clever idea, turning a "prairie schooner" into an actual wind-driven vehicle. But even in Kansas, the wind doesn't blow ALL the time!
Tell it to the kite 🪁 flyers!
Ahhh this was before all them wind break tree lines!
And the same thing probably goes for those high-tension towers mentioned in the old Glen Campbell song “WICHITA LINEMAN”?!
3:33 i think the mayor's daughter is super lovely
We all did, watched this on a DVD.
@@madhatterzake3871 Agreed.
I’d fuck her.
Quite right.
I’d like to see it on theatre screens again instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
It's a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it!
Likewise.
To think Walt Disney produced this gem decades before "One Piece".
Definitely.
?
Confused as you.
I remembered hearing Rex Allen's voice as the narrator of the cartoon version of Charlotte's Web.
He narrated lots of stuff.
I remembered hearing and seeing the Sons of the pioneers in the movie Melody Time for the tall tale about Pecos Bill.
And one of them went onto become Festus on the tv classic “GUNSMOKE”.
I like to think they made it to Santa Fe and never looked back, knowing the mayor would have forbidden them from being together.
Eventually, they must have been lucky enough for the tornado to take them as far as Langtry, Texas, which allowed for them to be wed by Judge Roy Bean aka The Law West of the Pecos. After which they headed for Mexico 🇲🇽 where they partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle industry.
I remembered seeing this program on Walt Disney presents.
Wowsers!
I hadn't thought about this cartoon for 50 years or so but recognised it straight away - I must have seen it when the BBC showed "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" on British TV in the mid-1970's. Must have made an impression to have stuck in my memory!
Amazing.
Loved watching these cartoons as a kid. Probably been 30 years since I've seen this one
Quite a time gap, isn’t it?
@@LindaCooper-i3f it's insane how fast time flies
Yes indeed.
I was child not idea for end. Now I'm adult know Smith and lady are died... They happy in heaven. I'm cry
9 times out of 10, that tornado 🌪 gently put them both on the other side of the Rio Grande.
I love this. It’s so charming and well done!
All the way!!
What makes this funny and unique as you think this would be a Warner Brothers short considering the dynamic art style and colorful cast of characters! This was at a time when Disney and WB were great rivals with their animation!
And all of the short subject pictures from both studios need more theatrical screen time so customers at the movie theatres won’t have to gripe about the local businesses advertising on theatre screens no more.
Disney put colorful casts in other productions also - “Mary Poppins”, for example.
It’s a possibility.
I don't know if they wrote this themselves, but this stanza form is what literature calls "the Chevy-Chase-verse", famously used in "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" and Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark".
Heavens to hemlock!
Pecos Bill and Windwagon Smith are great for American folk heroes ❤
But while old Pecos disappeared after losing Slewfoot Sue, Windwagon Smith and Molly on the other hand wound up in Mexico 🇲🇽 most likely because that tornado 🌪 took them as far as the Rio Grande where they were married by Judge Roy Bean before heading for Durango where Smith partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business for the remainder of their days.
“Yippie Ay Yay and a Yo Ho Ho”
“Well, bust my barnacles!” Hopalong Cassidy.
Nice to see I'm not the only one to come up with the idea of harnessing the winds to power a schooner across the prairie.
So far so good.
I have always had a preference for Disney's unusual animations rather than any of the regular character shows. Even several of the ones made for the military in the 40's.🤔
We need to get all of those short subject pictures back onto theatre screens on a regular basis instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
@LindaCooper Since we are unlikely to get what we want, I will propose a possible
win-win. Bring back the shorts and keep the local ads but they all must be written and star Roger Horton.😜
@mybachhertzbaud3074,
I don’t know who this Roger Horton fellow is, but advertisements for local businesses weren’t meant for showing on theatre screens.
They’re getting away with showing the advertisements of local businesses on the screens at the multiplexes, but we won’t tolerate those ads on the screens of the smalltown one-screeners that are strictly ‘Mom & Pop’ types regardless of whether they’re drive-ins or walk-ins either one.
Meanwhile, try getting an online petition organized to demand that either the advertisements of local businesses GO AWAY from the theatre screens for good, or have the multiplexes facing a major boycott.
Try typing in Roger Horton into the UA-cam search bar and perhaps you will see why I picked him. 😁
That was a long time I saw this! Beautiful and sad at the same time. It's a tragic & lovely love story. I was a kid when I saw that in theaters & I understood what happened to the couple.
The truth is... I cried!
@OverlordShamala,
9 times out of 10, the tornado 🌪 put them down gently near Langtry, Texas, where they were both married by Judge Roy Bean before they crossed the border into Mexico 🇲🇽, and partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
I’m covering an assortment of possibilities because I can’t abide by the philosophy of the phrase “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!”
Cut the crap
@mariuspoppFM,
You have the audacity of the sitcom character known as Michael “Meathead” Stivic from “ALL IN THE FAMILY”.
When Disney wasnt afraid of a sad story. Some of the best stories are the saddest.
But in actuality, Windwagon Smith and Molly ended up in Mexico 🇲🇽 where they partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle 🐂 raising part of the beef 🥩 business.
@@LindaCooper-i3f 😎 🆒️ 😎
Still it’s a possibility.
THE MARCHING BAND FROM TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK AND BOOM AND HORRICE AND JASPER FROM 101 DALMATIANS
Goodnight nurse.
Why is the sound out of sync?
Too much Mono, and not enough stereo.
I like the part where Captain Smith was falling in love with the Mayor Daughter, Molly inside the Restaurant lololol so hard at that part!
Far out and groovy couple!
Same . Boy , was he smitten with her .
Their descendants now live on the ranch in Mexico 🇲🇽 where Smith and Molly partnered up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
You can DEFINITELY see Jasper and Horace in the crowd.
I had never heard of this, and I'm an animation geek. You can REALLY see the UPA influence!!!!! I'd never seen Disney do limited amimation, which is a bit disconcerting to me. I realize budgets were being cut at that point. The cell count had to be WAY down from, say, something like BEN AND ME.
Anything’s possible.
Wow, Joplin was on the map.
Even in those days?!
This isn't such a bad concept. Imagine being able to travel using the wind instead of train or automobile? Like you don't have to burn coal in order to work the train, it would be like sailing through the ocean except over the planes and fields. Wouldn't that be nice? It's not a bad idea. I mean, there are a lot of things that work out, but, imagine being able to sail through the land instead of flying over it in a plane?
Even a live action adaptation would be great to see on theatre screens today.
Very sweet way of showing settler times
More or less.
Thank you for posting this. Neither spouse nor I had heard of it, and we grew up on 1970s Disney. Wonder why it's been neglected.
Not enough time on theatre screens obviously.
Wow! Good times! When DISNEY were just a animated studios.
And before any of that computer animation jazz.
They made live-action things too.
I’m aware of that.
Thanks for sharing.
Likewise.
I also remembered that this cartoon was on Walt Disney presents along with DTV.
With most of the footage used with the song “DON’T MESS WITH BILL” by the Marvellettes and the hand shaking scene with “FRIENDSHIP TRAIN” by Gladys Knight & The Pips.
Miss these cartoons
Better to see them on theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses!
Whar?@@LindaCooper-i3f
It’s just about time that someone needs to get this and other short subject pictures back onto theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
I wish I had had the honour of been born in the year 1961, two years before classic Dr Who started on tv in black and white with Bill Hartnell on BBC1 and had a golden 26 year run until the late 80s when it was abruptly cancelled sadly. I know if my birth year had been in 1961 instead of been 8 years later in 1969 I would be happier and also I would be older than just 55 I would now be aged 63 instead of only 55 and also I would have been alive 8 years longer than I have been up to now.
Heavens to hemlock.
This was a cute Disney shorts never heard of it!
It needs a more regular basis showings on theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
10:55 Horace and Jasper
Probably ancestors who lived in the USA 🇺🇸.
I really enjoyed that, lovely story.❤
Likewise.
Molly was voiced by Peggy Lee
Strange?
I would have had Mary Costa, the voice of Princess Aurora pegged for the role of Molly.
Ofcourse, there’s also the possibility of Molly’s voice being done by dancer Helene Stanley who portrayed Polly Crockett in “DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER”?!
Какая трогательная история. ❤
Likewise.
20,000 leagues with a style of Hanna Barbera and Disney mix.
Just like Pecos Bill and slue footed sue
The only big difference being that Sue wound up on the moon while Bill returned to the coyotes.
In the case of Smith and Molly, however, they most likely wound up down in Mexico 🇲🇽.
this is a great cartoon for certain
It would be nice to see it on theatre screens again on a regular basis instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
When Disney was good for the hole family
And can be again if only enough folks would buy enough Wall Street type stock to wield enough power to control the board of directors.
Is there any historical basis to this story at all?
Maybe in the episodes of the tv series “DEATH VALLEY DAYS”?!
Actually there is some basis...but the gentleman that built it crashed and I do not believe he survived,...
Again we have yet another follower of the philosophy of “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!”
9 times out of 10, Smith and Molly wound up in Mexico 🇲🇽 in actuality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windwagon_Smith
Was that recycled horse animation (from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) @ 1:25?
Probably a distant relative of his.
Disney kept all their animation in a "morgue" for future use - they might just use new art over it but it saved time - i think the Aristocats and Robin Hood use the same dance animation for Maid Marion and Duchess
How unusual.
And that dance was from Snow White and Seven Dwarves, at that.
Which dance exactly?
Anybody think of either Hanna Barbara or some of the Warner toons with this art style and design?
Wouldn’t mind if it became a movie
Concluding with Smith and Molly being married by Judge Roy Bean before going across the border into Mexico 🇲🇽 to partner up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
Molly's eyes are like sapphire
Probably.
Nah they look more like Aquamarines
Turquoise most likely.
10:54 Those two are 101 Dalmation Easter Eggs characters!!
Heavens to hemlock!!
Now, all we need is to have Uncle Fester showing up.
This video is out of sync. Any chance to re-upload?
How puzzling.
Sorry, Molly but Slue Foot Sue has the better bustle
Only thing is that Sluefoot Sue wound up on the moon, but the wind wagon crash landed in Mexico 🇲🇽, allowing for Captain Smith to partner up with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle business.
Pissed me off something fierce how Widowmaker Cucked Bill!
@@LindaCooper-i3f It made me mad at how Widowmaker Cock-Blocked Pecos Bill!
Was this made before or after 20,000 leagues under the sea? (Smith with blonde hair, big chin cleft and red/white top like Kirk Douglas) 🧐🧐🧐
More like that of Troy Donahue or Tab Hunter.
As Seen on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
What year?
@@LindaCooper-i3f 1963
@@LindaCooper-i3f 1963
3:01 same voice as the walrus from Alice in wonderland
She’s very pretty at 3:33-3:39
Meaning, that she was voiced by either Mary Costa who voiced Princess Aurora in “SLEEPING BEAUTY”, or Helene Stanley who portrayed Polly Crockett in “DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER”, because she doesn’t sound anything like Peggy Lee at all.
@@LindaCooper-i3fI wondered who the voice was. Thanks!
Either one of them were both more logical guesses and prettier than Peggy Lee any day of the week.
I ain't seen this since I was a kid.
Would you like to see it on the screen of your neighborhood movie theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses any old day of the week?
How did they get Matthew McConaughey to narrate this
The mayor sounds like Rolff the Dog.
Heavens to hemlock.
Pirate Cowboys? Or Cowboy Pirates?
It would depend on more research.
Hold on one minute... In the end.. are they supposed to be dead!? I saw this in school as a kid in the 90s and I don't remember that.
In actuality, the tornado took them to Langtry, Texas, and Judge Roy Bean performed their wedding ceremony.
After which they headed deep into Mexico 🇲🇽 where they eventually became partners with Alvarez Kelly in the cattle industry.
Sounds like roy rogers singing at the beginning
But the line of “He was mad as a crow!” came from Festus on “GUNSMOKE”.
I think Roy Rogers was a member of the sons of the pioneers
@@robertkraft2358 he was. I googled it yesterday
This is obviously one of their recordings made without his presence.
Were not what he just said earlier were Sioux mixed tribes Smith
Holy Trail Of Tears!
0:41 watching in August
Likewise.
I think my dad saw this cartoon in the 60s and my mom
Good for them.
@@LindaCooper-i3fwhy are you so negative in response to some, and overly opinionated to many! You DO NOT need to interject your redundant comments to every post!
I’m not exactly negative, I was merely offering congratulations.
Ah yes, the era where Disney copied off of UPA's homework
Except for the fact that neither Mr. Magoo nor Gerald McBoing-Boing appear in this short subject picture.
So they died together ??
Allegedly died.
For all we know, Smith and Molly landed the wind wagon in Mexico 🇲🇽 where they were befriended by the great Irish-Mexican rancher known as Alvarez Kelly. Smith then took Kelly’s advice and used an alias as they trailed a herd to St. Louis via Little Rock, and then the herd was purchased by a New York City meat packer, and Kelly went onto New York where he reunited with Liz Pickering and brought her back to Mexico 🇲🇽 to become his bride.
To this day, descendants of the Smith and Kelly families still run the ranch or estancia as Kelly referred to it. Somehow both Molly and Liz each had a son, and their sons married the daughters of a neighboring rancher, and from the Kellys granddaughter and Smith and Molly’s grandson spawned the Columbo family; Columbo being the Italian translation for the surname of Columbus.
It should be noted that this is an American folk "tall tale," basically a fairy tale which ending can depend on the whims of the storyteller. Sometimes, they *do* end up with the protagonist dying, but that isn't a guarantee.
By chance, do you abide by the philosophy of the phrase “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!!!”?
@LindaCooper-i3f Not sure what that even means, but this story is straight up Disney-ifaction of a different legend that itself was possibly inspired by a historical but less than notable "Thomas Smith"
As such, I wouldn't take anything from this short too seriously; it's an old work of fiction inspired by another, older work(s) of fiction. As such, this story has been retold a number of times with different variations.
@matthewutech5970,
For the meaning behind the phrase of “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend!!!”, I highly recommend that you watch the classic John Wayne movie titled “THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE”, especially the scene when a U.S. Senator asks a small town newspaper editor why he destroyed the notes of his reporter’s interview with the senator in question.
Somebody was inspired by Hanna-Barbera clearly. Why did the Indian face change? Was he blushing in reverse?
That’s simply just another mystery to solve later.
Idole
Made back when Disney still produced works of classic Americana rather than trashing them...
Blame it on the stockholders.
I WAS BORN IN 1961!
The year that my cousin, JFK SR, was sworn into office as the U.S. President.
Drop the sail.
Normal procedure in maritime dilemmas.
Well, that’s sad
Possibly, unless the tornado 🌪 put them down in Texas where they were promptly married by Judge Roy Bean.
From there they headed into Mexico 🇲🇽, fearing that if Mayor Crumm found out about it, he’d have Smith on a gallows and Molly in a convent.
Therefore, they stopped in Durango wherein they were befriended by Alvarez Kelly who Smith partnered up with the cattle business.
10:54 that's Jasper and Horace!!
Minus the English accents?!
@@LindaCooper-i3f yup
@@LindaCooper-i3f yup
Possibly.
Cool story
Yes indeed.
Yup .
So far so good.
Katerra
Mayor talks like Colonel hathi
But no English accent.
That's because they were voiced by the same guy (J. Pat O'Malley)
He obviously disguised his voice so as to not use an English accent like with Jasper in “101 DALMATIANS” or even Colonel Hathi in “THE JUNGLE BOOK”, let alone Otto the blacksmith in the 1973 animated version of “ROBIN HOOD”.
Pioneers Princess Katerra
Practice practical prating plating platforms platinum sliver and gold
Golden
Goldeneye
Oldenburg
Anything’s possible.
10:56 Horus and Jasper?
Good grief.
Somehow I missed seeing this on “The Wonderful World of Disney” television series when I was growing up. What a gem! I’ll take this over Disney’s current crop of gender-confused woke garbage any day.
Too true obviously.
Rare cartoon?
How true that is.
It’s just a short subject picture that needs to have a regular basis showing on theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
Wind power!
He'd sail through quickly in Wyoming 🦬
°~•.☆.•~°
Then how come his destination was Santa Fe, in modern day New Mexico?
Disney 100
Right on!
🦧
Goodnight nurse.
Wow! That was totally pointless ...
“Well, now I wouldn’t say that.”
The little man from the draftboard in the classic 1945 animated short subject picture of “DRAFTEE DAFFY”.
@@LindaCooper-i3f fair enough ... 🤣
Audio is way off. How can you all watch this?
Some of us manage it much easier than others do.
Easy, I just deal with it.