Balto film Wikipedia. Balto is a 1. 99. Americananimatedepicdramaadventure film directed by Simon Wells, produced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is loosely based on a true story about the dog of the same name who helped save children from the diphtheriaepidemic in the 1. Nome. The live action portions of the film were shot at Central Park in New York City. The film was the third and final animated feature produced by Steven Spielbergs Amblimation animation studio. Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Bonne Radford acted as executive producers on the film. Although the films theatrical run was overshadowed by the success of the competing Pixar film Toy Story, its subsequent strong sales on home video led to two direct to video sequels Balto II Wolf Quest 2. Balto III Wings of Change 2. In New York City, an elderly woman and her granddaughter are walking through Central Park, looking for a memorial statue. As they seat themselves for a rest, the grandmother tells a story about Nome, Alaska back in 1. Balto, a wolfdog hybrid, lives on the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive father, a snow goose named Boris and two polar bears, Muk and Luk. Aleu-balto-2-31047064-720-480.jpg' alt='Download Balto II: Wolf Quest For Free ' title='Download Balto II: Wolf Quest For Free ' />Being half breed, Balto is ridiculed by dogs and humans alike. His only friends in town are a beautiful red husky named Jenna, whom Balto has a crush on, and her owner, Rosy. He is later challenged by the towns favorite sled dog, Steele, a fierce and arrogant Alaskan Malamute. Later that night, all of the children, including Rosy, fall ill with diphtheria and the doctor is out of antitoxin. The local wireless operator relays news of the outbreak and word travels to the territory capital at Juneau, where the governor orders antitoxin to be sent to Nome. However, severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by sea or air and the closest rail line from Juneau ends at Nenana, 6. Nome. A dog race is held to determine the best fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. Balto enters and wins, but Steele stamps on Baltos paw which causes him to growl at the musher, getting him disqualified out of fear that he might turn on the musher due to his wolfdog heritage. The team departs that night with Steele in the lead and later picks up the medicine successfully, but on the way back, conditions deteriorate and the disoriented team ends up stranded at the base of a steep mountainside slope with the musher knocked unconscious. When the word reaches Nome that the sled team is missing, the town prepares for the worst. Balto sets out in search of the sled team, along with Boris, Muk and Luk. On the way, they are attacked by a huge grizzly bear, but Jenna, who followed their mark tracks, intervenes. The bear pursues Balto out onto a frozen lake, where it falls through the ice and drowns, while Muk and Luk dive in to save Balto from a similar fate. Jenna is injured in the bear fight and cannot continue. Balto instructs Boris and the polar bears to take her back home while he continues on alone Jenna gives him her bandanna and Boris gives him some advice. Watch Cartoons Online Free Cartoons is not just for the kids. Kevin Bacon as Balto, a young adult male wolfdog being halfhusky and halfwolf. Jeffrey James Varab and Dick Zondag served as the supervising animators for Balto. Download Balto II: Wolf Quest For Free ' title='Download Balto II: Wolf Quest For Free ' />Balto eventually finds the team, but Steele does not want his help and attacks him until he loses his balance and falls off a cliff. Balto takes charge of the team, but Steele, refusing to concede defeat, throws them off the trail and they lose their way again. Penguins Of Madagascar Movie Trailers on this page. While attempting to save the medicine from falling down a cliff, Balto himself falls. Back in Nome, Jenna is explaining Baltos mission to the other dogs, but they dont believe her. When Steele returns, he claims the entire team, including Balto, is dead he uses Jennas bandanna as supposed proof. However, Jenna sees through his lies and assures Balto will return with the medicine, but the others remain skeptical. Using a trick Balto showed her earlier, she places broken colored glass bottles on the outskirts of town and shine a lantern on them to simulate the lights of an aurora, hoping it will help guide Balto home. When Balto regains consciousness, he is ready to give up hope, but when a large, white wolf appears and he notices the medicine crate still intact nearby, he realizes that his part wolf heritage is a strength, not a weakness, and drags the medicine back up the cliff to the waiting team. Using his advanced senses, Balto is able to filter out the false markers Steele created. After encountering further challenges and losing only one vial, Balto and the sled team finally make it back to Nome. A pity playing Steele is exposed as a liar and abandoned by the other dogs, ruining his reputation. Reunited with Jenna and his friends, Balto earns respect from both the dogs and the townspeople. He visits a cured Rosy, who thanks him for saving her. Back in the present day, the elderly woman and her granddaughter finally find the memorial commemorating Balto, and she explains the Iditarod trail covers the same path that Balto and his team took from Nenana to Nome. The woman, who is revealed to be an old Rosy, repeats the same line, Thank you, Balto. I would have been lost without you, before walking off to join her granddaughter and her Siberian Husky, Blaze. The film ends with the Balto statue standing proudly in the sunlight. Cast and characterseditKevin Bacon as Balto, a young adult male wolfdog being half husky and half wolf. Jeffrey James Varab and Dick Zondag served as the supervising animators for Balto. Bob Hoskins as Boris, a Russian snow goose and Baltos caretaker and sidekick. Kristof Serrand served as the supervising animator for Boris. Bridget Fonda as Jenna, a female Husky and Rosys pet as well as Baltos love interest. Robert Stevenhagen served as the supervising animator for Jenna. Juliette Brewer as Rosy, Jennas owner and a kind, excitable girl who was the only human in Nome who is kind to Balto. She falls ill, but Balto brings the medicine to save her and the other children. David Bowers served as the supervising animator for Rosy. Jim Cummings as Steele, an Alaskan Malamute and Baltos rival who also has a crush on Jenna. Sahin Ersz served as the supervising animator for Steele. Phil Collins as Muk and Luk, a pair of polar bear cubs, Muk talks but not Luk. Nicolas Marlet served as the supervising animator for Muk and Luk. Jack Angel, Danny Mann and Robbie Rist as Nikki, Kaltag and Star respectively, the three prominent members of Steeles team. William Salazar served as the supervising animator for the team. Sandra Dickinson as Dixie, a female Pomeranian and one of Jennas friends who adores Steele until his lies are exposed. Dickinson also voices Sylvie, a female Afghan Hound who is Jennas friend as well and Rosys mother. Patrick Mate served as the supervising animator for Sylvie and Dixie. Lola Bates Campbell as Rosys unnamed granddaughter, who appears in the live action sequences and is accompanied by her dog Blaze, a purebred Siberian Husky. William Roberts as Rosys father. Donald Sinden as Curtis Welch, the doctor. Bill Bailey as a butcher. Garrick Hagon as a telegraph operator. Frank Welker as the Grizzly bear uncreditedHistorical differenceseditThe film portrays Balto 1. March 1. 93. 3 as a gray wolfdog. In real life, Balto was a pure bred Siberian Husky and was black and white in color. Baltos colors changed to brown due to light exposure whilst on display in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The makers of the film may have chosen to differentiate Balto from the other prominent sled dog of the movie, Steele, who also had a black and white coat. The sled run to retrieve the medicine was a relay. Instead of being the leader of the first team, Balto was the leader of the last team to carry the medicine to Nome. The longest and most hazardous distance was traveled by the team led by Togo. In the sequels, Balto became a proud father with Jenna within a litter of puppies who grew up and moved on with their lives, but in real life, Balto was a fixed male dog Therefore, even if he lived with a female dog they would never have puppies. Balto Wikipedia. This article is about the sled dog. For the 1. 99. 5 animated film and the character based on the dog, see Balto film. Balto 1. 91. 9 March 1. Siberian husky and sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1. Nome, in which diphtheriaantitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. Balto was named after the Sami explorer Samuel Balto. Balto died of natural causes at age 1. In January 1. 92. Nomes young people. The only serum that could stop the outbreak was in Anchorage, Alaska. The engine of the only aircraft that could quickly deliver the medicine was frozen and would not start. After considering all of the alternatives, officials decided to move the medicine via multiple dog sled teams. The serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana, where the first musher embarked as part of a relay aimed at delivering the needed serum to Nome. More than 2. 0 mushers took part, facing a blizzard with 2. F 3. 1 C temperatures and strong winds. Katie Pryor interviewed each musher after he had finished. News coverage of the event was worldwide. On February 2, 1. Norwegian. Gunnar Kaasen drove his team, led by Balto, into Nome. The longest and most hazardous stretch of the run was actually covered by another Norwegian, Leonhard Seppala, and his dog team, led by Togo. They came from Nome towards the end of the run and picked up the serum from musher Henry Ivanoff. The serum was later passed to Kaasen. Balto proved himself on the Iditarod trail, saving his team in the Topkok River. Balto was also able to stay on the trail in near whiteout conditions Kaasen stated he could barely see his hand in front of his face. Baltos team did their leg of the run almost entirely in the dark. The final team and its sledder were asleep when Balto and Kaasen made it to the final stop, so Kaasen decided to continue on. At Nome, everybody wanted to thank Kaasen at first, but he suggested giving fame to Balto as well. Togo was the star dog for Leonhard Seppala even before the great 1. Serum Run. Instead of celebrating the triumph together as one huge team, many became jealous of the publicity Balto received, especially from President Calvin Coolidge and the press. Seppala favored Togo, but the general public loved the story behind Balto, and so they would take a far different path after the celebrations were over. Balto was not welcomed at the ceremony in New York in which Seppala and Togo received awards from the explorer Roald Amundsen. AftermatheditAfter the missions success, Balto and Kaasen became celebrities. A statue of Balto, sculpted by Frederick Roth, was erected in New York Citys Central Park on December 1. Baltos arrival in Nome. Balto himself was present for the monuments unveiling. The statue is located on the main path leading north from the Tisch Childrens Zoo. In front of the statue a low relief slate plaque depicts Baltos sled team, and bears the following inscription Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1. Endurance Fidelity Intelligence45Balto was not destined to be a star in the breeding shed since he was neutered at a young age, hence he was relegated to being neglected on the vaudeville circuit with his team. When Kaasen wished to return home to Alaska, his dogs were sold to the highest bidder by the company who sponsored his tour. The dogs ended up chained in a small area in a novelty museum and freak show in Los Angeles. While visiting Los Angeles, George Kimble, a former prize fighter turned businessman from Cleveland, was shocked to discover the dogs were unhealthy and badly treated. Mr. Kimble worked together with the newspaper The Plain Dealer to bring Balto and his team to Cleveland, Ohio. On March 1. 9, 1. Balto and six companions were brought to Cleveland and given a heros welcome in a triumphant parade. The dogs were then taken to the Brookside Zoo now the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. After Balto died in 1. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In 1. Carl Barks introduced a hero dog named Barko as a character in an Uncle Scrooge comic book, North of the Yukon, as an homage to Balto. In 1. 99. 8 the Alaska Legislature passed HJR 6. Bring Back Balto resolution. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History declined to return Balto however, in October 1. Balto left for a five month stay at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art which drew record crowds. Balto will be part of another exhibit at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in 2. The 1. 99. 5 animated film of the same name was also made, loosely depicting Baltos famous journey. This film portrayed him as a wolf dog hybrid and is voiced by Kevin Bacon. See alsoeditReferenceseditBalto The hero dog of Nome, Alaska. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 52. 81. Salisbury, Gay Laney Salisbury 2. The Cruelest Miles The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic. New York W. W. Norton Company. ISBN 0 3. 93 0. Central Park Monuments Balto. New York City Department of Parks Recreation. Retrieved February 2. Balto. Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved February 2. Balto, sculpture. Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York New York survey. June 1. 99. 3. Retrieved February 7, 2. Balto. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. March 2. 7, 1. 99. Retrieved June 2. De. Marco, Laura February 1. Clevelands most famous canine, Balto, to visit Alaska. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. Retrieved February 2. External linksedit.