Balto overview

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Balto is an animated film, released in 1995 and produced by the Universal / Amblimation studios.

Balto The film follows such films as An American Tail or Land Before Time from the same studio, which share common points with the Disney animated films, and were released during the golden age of traditional western animation.

The story of Balto deals with wolves and dog sledding, and is based on true facts that happened in 1925 in Nome, Alaska, where diphteria, a fatal disease, occured.
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Balto is a feature-length film, produced by the Amblimation studios from Steven Spielberg, known for several other animated films such as "An American Tail", "Fievel Goes West" or "Land Before Time".

Released in 1995 in the USA, and mid-1996 in Europe, the movie didn't attract the crowd and didn't encounter the deserved success. That's the reason it is not much known compared to Disney or even Dreamworks movies, and yet...

Based on real facts, this cartoon relate the story of Balto, a brave sled dog, who brought back an antidiphtheria serum in order to save children, in Alaska (1925).

Many famous people have taken part in it, starting with Spielberg of course, as an executive producer (besides, we can even see a wink to "ET" in Balto), Simon Wells as the director/producer, and James Horner as the soundtrack composer (" Titanic ", " Braveheart ", " Alien "...and all the other Amblimation movies)

Nowadays, Amblimation has disappeared, in fact just after the release of this film, and the studios had been retaken with the help of an old Disney director for the conception of another animated movie, "The Prince of Egypt". And so was born Dreamworks...

Technical description of the film:

Country of origin: The USA

Scenario: David Cohen, Elana Lesser, Cliff Ruby, Roger S.H. Schulman

Producers: Steven Spielberg and Steve Hickner.

Musics: James Horner and Barry Man

Studio/Distributor: Universal Pictures

Original Title: Balto

Live action places: Central park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, the USA

Length: 1. 14 mn.

American voices:

Balto voices

Kevin Bacon ... Balto

Bob Hoskins ... Boris the Goose

Bridget Fonda ... Jenna

Jim Cummings ... Steele

Phil Collins ... Muk and Luk

Jack Angel ... Nikki

Danny Mann ... Kaltag

Robbie Rist ... Star

Theatrical release in USA: December 22, 1995

Release in VHS in USA: April 02, 1996

Release in DVD in USA: February 19, 2002

Theatrical release in France: July 10, 1996

Release in VHS in France: February 05, 1997

Release in DVD in France: October 8, 2002

Entries made by the film on its release in theaters :

France : 91 035, + 21 600 (out again in Feb. 2003)
Great Britain : 66 321
Germany : 133 300
Total Europe : 354 320

USA : 1 211 006

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Wolfdogb alto	September 30, 2009

This is good movie, Balto is living hero


Jonathan _wolf	September 29, 2009

I love this movie!!! #1 movie of al time!!!


LadyKami lla	September 21, 2009

I remember when i saw this one as a kid, i really love the Balto movie !


BaltoMan 1234	September 20, 2009

I LOVE THE FIRST MOVIE OF BALTO!!


Advert	September 20, 2009

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