Balto overview
Overview
Balto is an animated film, released in 1995 and produced by the Universal / Amblimation studios.
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.
Two low-budget sequels to Balto have been released to date, being direct-to-video sequels unlike the original.
This site aims to give the growing Balto fan community everything to share their passion!
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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...
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:
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
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| February 23, 2010 | ||
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I LOVE BALTO IT IS GREAT MOVIE I WOULD WATCH IT OVER AND OVER I LIKE
THE BIT WHERE BORIS AYS I HATE BEARS  |
| February 13, 2010 | ||
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THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME AND AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT. IT'S 100,000 STARS |
| December 21, 2009 | ||
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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". |
| December 08, 2009 | ||
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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. |
| December 06, 2009 | ||
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You are unamerican if you dont like Balto! haha. Seriously though,
it's such a great film. |
| November 23, 2009 | ||
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I love Balto.   |
| November 18, 2009 | ||
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what kind of dog is sylvie? i'm guessing afghan hound but i'm not
sure... |
| November 11, 2009 | ||
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Balto is the best movie EVER!!!!!!!!!!  
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| November 07, 2009 | ||
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I have loved balto for a long long time well not till 2003 but love
the movie. thank you for making it |
| October 27, 2009 | ||
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When I was a child I was totaly crazy on Balto, I had one toy I called
it Balto and this toy was everywhere with me I took it at the
school, shops, Mc donalds.... I still like Balto, he is a real
amarican hero I like first movie the most |
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Official Balto characters  |
Image :
Music :
- Snowblind, by BlurAn orchestral I made on President's Day 2009 out of boredom.
I made it completely influenced from the white wolf scene in
Balto.
Music video :
- Balto: So Cold, by GrayPawz_91(Yes, I really am Stumpfur. Contact me and I'll even tell
you, because well... it's my account) This is actually a
contest entry video, AND my firs...
Project :
- Balto: The Video Game, by Red XIIIA Balto Video game everyone will enjoy. Or hate.
Contest :
- Test Your Rendering Skills!, by Leaf SilvermoonTest your multi character rendering skills, and see who can
do the best!
Article :
- History of the Balto fan sites, by TogoBalto Source is only the last of a long series of sites
dedicated to Balto, here's the history of all of them.
Question :
- How do I take Screenshots?, by majalo I've tried everything, and asked my brother. But no
luck. I open up the movie in Windows Media Player and
press the Printscrn button, paste i...
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