Q : In a recent question of mine, you explained that the musical composition “Pandeiro & Flute” by Benedito Lacerda can be heard in the film The Three Caballeros at the end of the Baia train sequence and just before the “Os Quindins de Ya-Ya” sequence. No music is played in between these two segments, and it seems that a single piece is played during the entirety of the train ride to Baia, as opposed to exclusively at the end. Is this the piece that you were referring to? Also, was the piece written originally for the film, or did it previously exist in some form?
Jeremiah, Fairfax, Virginia
A: It is the flute piece played during the train sequence, according to the film’s music cue sheet, running for one minute, three-and-two-thirds seconds. It is followed by silence, then “Os Quindins de Ya-Ya.” I have assumed it was not written for the film, but was simply licensed, though I have not seen evidence to back up that assumption.
Q : We were watching Enchanted last night and in the big song-and-dance number in Central Park, they have what I believe are things that represent the next set of Disney/Pixar movies all over the place. Like when Giselle is singing with a little girl who is in a play of Rapunzel. Then there are dancers with clusters of balloons. And in one small section of the screen you can see a green flag, the same shape and color like in Brave. Any truth to this? Or is this just my overactive imagination?
Jon, Laguna Hills, California
A: I have not seen anything to prove your suspicions, so I assume the items you noticed were simply coincidental.
Q : Was Goofy originally or ever drawn as a goat?
Kimberly, Hamilton, New Jersey
A: No, Goofy was never a goat, unless he was depicted as one as a joke. Some people have suggested that Goofy looked goat-like in Mickey’s Revue, his first cartoon appearance, but that was not the intent.
Q : The 1982 Disney movie Tron is stated to have been filmed in part at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, California. Can you be more specific about the role the lab played, such as which scenes?
Christopher, San Francisco, California
A: There were four days of filming at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Three of the days the company was filming in an area described as “interior laser lab”; the other day was for “interior hallway, interior computer control room, and exterior ENCOM door.”