Balto

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

Source : Lumiere

Comments


Puppydog 877	March 14, 2011

the balto dvd is sooooo coool:


Daughter of Balto	February 26, 2011

my friends in da school say it's not nice...i WANT TO KILL THEM..once m sisters said that i look like balto wow! i even hear him howls, his spirits is with me


Jenna loves balto	January 29, 2011

I love Balto! want more iformation from the story?

Balto was a lead dog on a sled team.Gunnars sled team.Well they were probaly not in competipions but they had a diffrent job.They brought food and tools to the miners not to far from nome.It was a perfect job for them.But one day two children got dipheria!Only having one whole doctor in the town is trouble!They did not have the medicine they needed.Anchroage had it.The people of Anchroage heard a deadly threat in nome.So they
put the medicine in a box then they put the box in a train.The train got stuck in the snow.So sled dog teams had to go get the medicine!still lots of miles away from nome.More then one team went.Not at the same time though.Once they got to the goal the team that was waiting there went next.so it went on and on and on.Until a team that ran the most miles is Lanhoard Seppla`s team.Last was Gunnar`s team.Two dogs in gunnars team died!Balto could not even see because the most horible blizzard was going on.But he still knew where to go he had went through that trail before.They got there at 5:30 A.M.!The sun was rising.Once people found out they had came back they started petting Gunnars dogs.But they forgott Togo the lead dog on sepplas team he had got them to the goal!

THE END


KodiWolf Husky	January 27, 2011

i dont know if i seen it or not i forget


Lepracho n	January 04, 2011

My favorite off all movies will always be balto 1


Guest	January 02, 2011

This is my #1 movie in the world.


StoneRoc ker	December 20, 2010

This is my favorite out of all the Balto movies!


JJ-Etern al	October 18, 2010

Then came Blu-rays


Lighteni ngwolf	October 09, 2010

	member of moon werewolf pack

i remember VCRs...ahhhh......we have alot of the old disney movies on VCR..then dvds came in...


Alpinesh ark	September 09, 2010

hey wasn't the Nome the city where aliens were kidnapping the people from the movie 4th Kind???


Halo the shepard	September 02, 2010

NOW SINCE I'VE SEEN BALTO 1 (HURRAY!!!!

) THIS MOVIE IS MY FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Halo the shepard	August 07, 2010

I have never seen balto 1 or 3,but, I really want to!!!!!

SHAME ON MEEEE!!!!!


Lobo_vic ente	July 13, 2010

[email protected]


King balto	June 30, 2010

it's the best movie ever made!


Lobato	June 26, 2010

The end of the movie let me wordless and think "so beautiful... wish something so amazing could happen on real life", then it appears "BASED ON A TRUE HISTORY" O.o and laugh a lot XDXDXD

best movie ever :3


Lighteni ngwolf	May 27, 2010

	member of moon werewolf pack

love how balto howls. Love thw whiye wolf scene. It was so terrible how Steele only cared about being the town hero instead of worring about eh kids. Balto worried about the kids. He didn't care about being the hero he wanted to save rosie. Balto and Jenna are perfect together.

Jenna should have told Steele to keep out of her and balto's life.

but it was good Balto and jenna are so cute together


Wolf quest the white	May 21, 2010

you have too be crazy not too like the movie


Tteyem	May 08, 2010

Nice move

i think it needs a big


Jenna Aleu	May 06, 2010

ME ENCANTA


Stark44	April 25, 2010

The poster is epic


Love_Jan e	March 31, 2010

people bumps ha ha


Stormair	March 24, 2010

Amazing movie, I really thought it was great considering they added a "relationship" with Balto and Jenna. I thought they made the style a signature style of drawing the characters. The backgrounds were amazing, as well adding a evil character in the movie spiced it up. 5 stars.


Wolfdog4 06	March 16, 2010

Hi, I'm new here to this site but not to Balto. This is a great movie and I wish it became a TV series (like for Cartoon Network) and starred the original voice cast from the movie with the same character appearances.

Later,


Shadowor BaltondJ enna	March 15, 2010

	Balto Rp

i love balo i watch it almost everyday


Transfor merbg	February 23, 2010

I LOVE BALTO IT IS GREAT MOVIE I WOULD WATCH IT OVER AND OVER I LIKE THE BIT WHERE BORIS AYS I HATE BEARS


Memphis0 8	February 13, 2010

THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME AND AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT.

IT'S 100,000 STARS


Guest	December 21, 2009

Amblimation actually made only three feature length animated films. The films are:

1. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (A sequel that was better than the original)
2. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (Amblimation's first and only bad film)
3. Last but not least...Balto! (Amblimation's best film and unfortunately, their last...

)

Amblimation wasn't involved in the 1986 Don Bluth film "An American Tail" or Bluth's 1988 film "The Land Before Time", the studio was founded by Steven Spielberg in 1991 as an animation studios arm for Amblin Entertainment and Simon Wells was a director for all three movies listed above. There was one short lived TV series called "Fievel's American Tails". Just to correct you, Amblimation didn't do "An American Tail" nor "The Land Before Time".


Guest	December 08, 2009

The best traditionally animated film ever! Nothing can topple it! It is an absolute 10 out of 10 film! But too bad that it had all its lightning stolen by a computer animated film, and that was Toy Story. This led to the disestablishment of Amblimaton due to financial reasons and from what I researched, the films they made didn't do too well at the box office. Even though I love Toy Story, but I hate what Disney and Pixar did to this film's performance. If Toy Story was pushed to mid 1996, then Balto would have done incredible at the box office and video sales would fly through the roofs of stores and there would probably be two high-budget theatrical sequels released instead of two low-budget direct to video sequels. Balto, I think, is way much better than Toy Story and the only film that comes close to Balto in my opinion is The Prince of Egypt which was a masterpiece. In fact, Simon Wells who directed Balto was also one of the three directors of The Prince of Egypt. I always wondered to myself, what would Balto look like if it was made at the studios of DreamWorks. I myself would expect it to be even more visually impressive with a more epic ending, than what we actually have. But, Balto still is and will always be to me, the best traditionally animated film ever devised.


Jarcieri	December 06, 2009

You are unamerican if you dont like Balto! haha. Seriously though, it's such a great film.


Tommy_Th e_Cub	November 23, 2009

I love Balto.

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