Word: sambaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy. The final and most sparkling sequence, the "Aquarela do Brasil" (watercolor of Brazil) is a beautiful spectacle of rhythmic color and samba music in which Donald Duck is introduced to Rio by Joe (Jose) Carioca, a personable young parrot of exuberant tastes...
With exciting samba music adapted by Disney's able Musician Charles Wolcott, and incredible bursts of color that flow onto the screen as the film unfolds, Saludos painlessly tells North Americans about South America...
...perfect the details of Mexican-U.S. cooperation, it was high time that the U.S. paid heed to even the routine comings & goings of such a man. In Brazil-which like the U.S. is not a Spanish-speaking country-Padilla is already known. Before he left there last January, samba bands dedicated songs to him. Mobs cheered him in the streets. Women tossed orchids to him. Some admirers even talked of him as "The American Man of the Future...
...commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl...
Most popular and distinctive of samba instruments is the large, roundish cabaca, a gourd around which rattling beans are strung on loose strings. Other noisemakers include the reco-reco (sounds like running a stick along a picket fence), the cuica (a dull squeak). Above them the syncopated samba tunes run their jerky course...