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Balto wishes to run the race, but Boris, discourages him. Balto enters the race and wins, coming in first place. Even though he came in first place, Steele ignores the fact that Balto won and when Balto points out that "I was the fastest dog" Steele quickly revolts and says "You were the fastest what?

While Jenna tries to stick up for him and tells Steele to worry more about the medicine instead of worrying about him being in the team, Steele stomps on Balto's paw and the judges declare that he may turn on them because he is part wolf, Jenna tries to apologize but angrily Balto walks away.

Steele leads the team out of Nome. After getting the antitoxin, Steele's team gets lost in a blizzard on the way back, as the children of Nome, get sicker. Back in Nome, waiting outside the hospital, Jenna stumbles on Balto's scent, and decides to follow him. Balto and his friends are moving along the trail, Balto is marking their path by clawing the bark off trees leaving a trail, Balto senses they're being watched, and decides the only thing to do is to keep moving, which he does, except his friends Boris, Muk, and Luk.

Muk and Luk stayed, having a snowball fight. Boris is all ready to put a end too the snowball fight, when he backs into a wall of fur, which he wasn't expecting. The bear attacks them and gets them trapped under a bunch of branches, Balto hears the fighting and comes running back, and hurls himself on the bear, but is quickly thrown off and pinned down, as the bear begins to crush him Jenna appears and jumps on the bear making it let go of Balto.

The bear stands up and steps backwards nearly crushing Muk, Luk, and Boris trapped. Jenna then wrestles with the bear but is, like Balto, thrown off. The bear then turns back to Balto, who it follows down to a a frozen lake, Balto stands to face the bear, but the ice cracks, taking both the bear and Balto under. Balto travels through blizzard and snow, and after many days of traveling, he finally finds the lost team, but they are in poor condition, stranded at the bottom of a cliff, and their musher out cold, all the dogs are overjoyed to see Balto, except Steele, too prideful to admit his failure, Balto tries to help but Steele, despite the other dogs, doesn't want him to, he attacks Balto in an effort to kill him, but Balto dodges skillfully to one side, and after Steele grabs hold of the bandana, it unravels, causing Steele fall down a cliff.

Thinking Steele is dead, Balto leads the sled team away as their new lead dog, but Steele is not dead, as a way of getting back, he messes up all of Balto's marks, causing the sled team too go the wrong direction, Balto and the team end up sliding down a cliff that leads too a sheer drop into a gorge, Balto catches hold of a branch, but not before the antitoxin box begins to fall off the edge, in a desperate effort Balto jumps forward and catches it, but the ice under him gives way, dropping him into the gorge with the box of antitoxin.

All the sled dogs think Balto is dead and are unable to go anywhere without a leader. At the bottom of the cliff, Balto awakes to find himself still alive, but assuming he has failed and covers his face, then lays motionless, but not before seeing a great white wolf who is his mother, Aniu standing in front of him. He watches as the she begins to howl, but looks away. It's then that he notices the unharmed crate of antitoxin, laying in a snow drift and he looks up to see the ridge where he fell.

It is then he hears Boris' words earlier that a dog cannot make the journey alone but maybe a wolf can. Realizing the half wolf heritage in him, he turns around and gazes at the wolf's paw print, he puts his paw on the wolf's track, and is amazed to see that his paw print and the wolf's are identical, then filled with new found determination, he lets out a long howl, the wolf appears and and joins him.

Balto takes the antitoxin and carries it up the cliff, the dogs continue to run till a unlucky sneeze by Star, sets off an avalanche, the team only manages to escape by ducking into a cave, Balto leads them through the cave, then notices that the roof of the cave is covered in stalactites, he warns the other dogs to be quiet, but the sled hits a bump, and makes a loud noise triggering a fall of stalactites, they manage to avoid the stalactites, and get out of the cave alive.

Back in Nome, Jenna waits at Rosy's bedside, just then Balto comes into view with the antitoxin, Jenna barks with joy and all the humans race out too see what's going on when Balto runs into town with the rest of the team.

With many congratulations, Balto is hailed a hero and Jenna becomes his mate and in eight years, Balto finally disappears into the afterlife. The film beginning with Balto having a terrible nightmare that he seems to have been having for days. He dreams he is running across a great frozen lake with a raven following him and he sees a wall of ice emerge in front of him.

When Boris splashes him with water, he wakes up coughing and sputtering then Boris complains that the dream keeps him from sleeping peacefully. Balto insists that its just a dream, but Boris keeps telling him it means something if he has it over and over again. Balto gets up and walks over to Nome. On the way, he observes a large totem pole with the Raven , like in his dream on it as well as a Wolverine , Grizzly bear , Red fox and Gray wolf.

Boris says he thinks the Raven on the Totem pole has something to do with the Raven in his dreams, but Balto says that it doesn't and that the humans carve totem poles to tell stories, but Boris keeps on saying that it means something to which Balto responds, "Look, all I know is that the Totem pole marks the quickest route to Jenna's. Balto enters nervously and looks down at his children then says in a warm tone of voice, "Their so beautiful," to which Jenna agrees.

Later, Balto is turning in his sleep as he is dreaming again. This time, he is running across the ice with the Raven close behind. As he runs, he turns to see Jenna standing by the shed calling out to him, but there is a light so bright that he can't see her face.

He is confused and turns and starts running toward her, but before he can get there, he awakes to find himself in his own abandoned pirate ship. He hears Jenna calling and looks over the side of the boat where Jenna is waiting on the beach with the pups, "Good morning sleepyhead," she says.

As the pups go off to play with Boris, Jenna reminds Balto that the pups are going to be adopted the next day. Balto is disappointed and wishes they didn't need to be adopted. However, when adoption day comes, Aleu isn't adopted due to her wolf-like appearance. Balto and Jenna refuse the truth that their daughter will never be adopted, but believe that someday a human will take her, though they know in their hearts that it isn't true.

Aleu asks him why he attacked the human and Balto tells her that the hunter had tried to kill her because she resembles a wolf perfectly.

Aleu is shocked at discovering she is part wolf and runs away. Balto suspects she will get over it, but Aleu isn't so sure. Then Balto has another dream where he is running with a herd of Caribou , running across the ocean on an ice bridge and hears the voice of his mother telling him about the Totem animals.

Balto goes to see if she is with Jenna, but discovers that she isn't. To this, he picks up her trail on the beach and follows it into the wilderness, after which he is shortly followed by a Raven who leads him to cross a log. On that log he meets a Fox which his mother describes as, "The Cunning Trickster". The Fox tricks him into falling in the river by telling him that she will help him find Aleu. Balto swims, but is pulled by the current.

After waking up, Balto finds Aleu's scent and follows it, but is waylaid by a trio of Wolverines who mock him and make fun of him. They insist that Balto is scared of them and Balto admits that he is scared, but not of them.

He tells them that he is afraid for Aleu then the Wolverines tell him to stop following the Raven before mysteriously disappearing. Balto continues to follow the Raven and comes across Aleu just in time to save her from a bear. After that, Aleu refuses to come back to Nome , due to an encounter with her spirit guide Muru , a kindly field mouse telling her she has to find who she is.

Balto encourages her to come home only to be further refused. Seeing that his daughter will not come home, he insists that he's coming with her to which she happily agrees. Balto then smells salt water, telling his daughter that they are near the ocean and they decide to see it. When they reach it, they are ambushed by four wolves who try to kill them, but the wolf's pack arrives and stops them. The pack is led by an elderly wolf named Nava. His pack is faithful to him, but his leadership is challenged by a wolf named Niju, one of the wolves that ambushed Aleu and Balto.

Niju is trying to encourage the pack to steal food from other animal clans in the forest, but Nava says that they should not. It is this way that Aleu and Balto find out that the pack is starving, due to the Caribou leaving and crossing the ice over to Russia where the wolves cannot follow just like in Balto's dream. Aleu says that they should help them, believing that they are meant to and that all this was meant to be, but Balto says no and tells Aleu that despite his dreams, the whole ordeal has gone to far and that they will leave in the morning.

When morning comes Balto decides that Aleu was right, and that he should help them, because he is the only one that can lead them to find the Caribou, he decides this just in time to stop Niju from leading the pack into stealing, Niju insists on fighting, but is stopped when the pack sees an ice bridge forming over the ocean, at first they are confused, but Aleu explains that last winter the Caribou crossed an ice bridge to land in Russia, and now that bridge is forming again, and that if the pack is to survive.

They must cross the ice bridge and get to Russia where the Caribou are. The pack sees she is right and decides to let Balto lead them across to which he agrees. The pack begins to cross, but Niju, being afraid of change refuses to go as the pack is crossing.

The section of ice Nava is on breaks off and begins to float away. Aleu seeing that Nava is in trouble takes a leap and manages to hold on to the edge of the ice. Nava tries to help Aleu, but is not strong enough, the piece of ice that Aleu is holding on to is heading toward the shore, Aleu scrambles madly but can't get up and is smashed against another piece of ice by the shore, forcing her underwater, for a few intense seconds she gets stuck underwater, but eventually resurfaces and climbs onto the ice where Nava is, but the problem remains.

Aleu and Nava are trapped on the piece of ice that is headed back to the shore. Aleu could make the swim, but Nava is too old for anything physically strenuous. With a swim that far, he'd never make it. Aleu calls out to Balto telling him to lead the pack on and that she will find a way to get her and Nava back to the pack. Balto leads the pack on, leaving Aleu alone with Nava. Just then, Niju appears, intending to kill Nava and Aleu and become the new pack leader. He easily knocks Nava down, but Aleu attacks and wrestles Niju to the ground in defense of Nava.

Niju quickly throws her off and pins her down, but Balto appears and yells "Niju! Leave her be! Aleu tells Balto that he should not be there, and should be leading the pack across, Balto says that he will, as soon as he takes care of Niju, but the ice that the pack is on is floating away to the other side, and they will never make it across without a leader.

Balto tells Niju that if he wanted to be a leader, this is his chance. But Niju's stubborn nature gets the better of him. He refuses to go and he is so busy talking that he doesn't see the patch of cracked ice. When he steps on it, he falls through and surfaces on the shore. Balto knows Nava won't be able to swim to the pack, so he decides to do it, but Aleu says that he shouldn't. She tells her father that he does not belong there.

With Jenna and Boris. Aleu realizes that this is where she truly belongs in the world, a proud and noble leader of her own wolf pack. Balto sadly agrees and says an emotional goodbye to his daughter who turns and swims to the pack, becoming their new leader. It is not too late! The growing community of fans strongly think that the best hope for getting Balto more popular would be to release a good Special-Edition DVD, similarly to the ones released by other companies such as Disney, Dreamworks or 20th century Fox.

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Humiliated and sad, Balto walks up a hill during sunset to a melancholy oboe variation of his theme. At , he spots a wolf family on a nearby hill and at this point, Horner brings in the first statement of the wolf theme. When they beckon him, our hero turns his back on them, as yet unable to acknowledge his origins. The moment is wordless and therefore highly cinematic, until Boris comes along and talks it to death.

Too bad. The music turns all sprightly again when Boris has an idea to comfort Balto. He imitates a dog and even throws in a toy cat in order to appeal to the dog his friend so desperately wants to be, but in vain. This is one of the re-scored cues Horner recorded in Los Angeles. The last ten seconds of the cue, which would have made the bit with the toy cat delightfully grotesque, were dropped from the film.

The result is a moment of delightfully dry humor, which is just as good. Not Dog Nor Wolf — Part 2 — previously unreleased. At , a flock of migrating geese appear in the sky and Balto asks Boris why he does not join them.

Muk and Luk Arrival Original unused. James Horner had a bit of a hard time coming to grips with the comedy in this scene. He composed and recorded two different versions see track 23 for the revised edition and as irony would have it, neither was used and the scene was scored with bits and pieces of Boris and Balto tracked in.

The cues as Horner envisioned them are pretty carnivalesque in nature. Rosy Goes To The Doctor — The deceptively upbeat opening covers a pranking Boris. At one point, Boris even does the mambo, at which point Horner was forced to break the tone with a short flash of mambo music. When the time came to prepare a score album in , he edited the moment out of the cue. That version is featured as an alternate on the Intrada album. The mood quickly turns somber when at , a plaintive oboe plays over the scene where Rosy and several other children are down with diphtheria.

The music briefly turns cheery again when Rosy spots Jenna looking in from the street, but when the coughing starts again, the short bit of joy is interrupted. When Jenna tells him she would love to find out more about Rosy, Balto takes her into the boiler room under the hospital rooms. At 43, he uses the reflection of broken glass to create his version of the northern lights on the opposite wall.

Quarantine — previously unreleased. Note that the use of the theme here deviates from its original attribution. He will do it again later in the score. In the end, a train, it is hoped, will make it to Nenanak, where a dogsled team will have to collect them and take them back to the sick children of Nome.

The Journey Begins — This lengthy and exciting cue explodes as the race starts, and the Balto theme, assuming various heroic guises, plays in an action setting.

Balto defeats the dogs and at , wins the race. When Steele brutally hurts his paw, Balto howls out in pain, as a result of which he is deemed unreliable and the villain still gets the gig. At , the Balto theme disintegrates into plaintive strings and is subsequently given to the oboe as the disappointed hero turns his back on Jenna.

The score may be largely monothematic but this theme is truly everywhere. On their way back to Nome, the dogs get bogged down in a violent snowstorm.

Horner moves from foreboding horns to eerie strings and back to horns as Steele foolishly decides to push on even though he has already lost his way. The music fades out as news of the failed rescue mission reaches Nome. Rosy is sick in bed and Jenna tries to comfort her. The Balto theme enters as our hero decides to embark on a rescue mission of his own.

Please note: this cue was previously unreleased. Balto, Boris and Muk and Luk set off in a desperate attempt to recover the antitoxins.

With the musher unconscious, the team realize they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire, and the music fades out. Grizzly Bear — Balto is alarmed by a dangerous presence lurking behind the trees.

Next is some more Mickey Mousing for Boris and the polar bears, who are completely unaware of the fearsome grizzly bear. At , Boris looks up and the beast is revealed. During the ensuing fight, the bear motif does battle with the Balto theme in a cue that is full of intense and surprisingly dark action music.

In a surprising move, Jenna comes to the rescue. The music becomes desperate when Balto is trapped in a frozen lake. Muk and Luk dive in and in a redemptive move, save Balto from certain death Horner responds with a triumphant fanfare and after Balto has regained consciousness, Jenna warms him by covering him with her body.

This would have been a great opportunity for a statement of the love theme. Instead, Horner supplies delicate writing for strings and flute. However, the grizzly attack has left Jenna hurt and Balto orders Boris and the polar bears to take her back to Nome. Telegraphing The News — The cue starts with the fifth and last statement of the love theme as Jenna says good-bye and gives Balto her bandana and a hug.