Walt Disney and a group of animators had been sent to South America in 1941 by the U.S. State Department as part of its Good Neighbor policy, and guaranteed financing for the resulting movie, Saludos Amigos.
When Walt Disney came to Argentina as part of his Latin America research tour, Cristiani showed his films to him, then sent him to cartoonist Molina Campos, the source of the gaucho segment in Saludos Amigos (1943).
Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.
He also made a cameo voiceover role as a flight attendant in Saludos Amigos (1942).
Los Amigos Invisibles | Three Amigos | Saludos Amigos | De Gosto de Água e de Amigos | The Three Amigos | Los Amigos | Amigos de las Américas |