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Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 2 by James Algar
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Roger Mobley, Slim Pickens, Tom Tryon, Walt Disney, Winston Hibler Director: James Algar Brand: Disney Writer: Winston Hibler Cinematographer: Al Hanson Writer: James Algar Producer: Ben Sharpsteen Writer: Dwight Hauser Writer: Jack Moffitt Writer: Ted Sears DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 169 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 2Movie Review: A family classic Summary: 5 Starsthis is a video for everyone. It is a forrunner for the nature films we now take for granted on PBS
Summary of Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 2Experience the wonder of Walt Disney's groundbreaking nature series for the first time on DVD! These acclaimed stories, fully restored to their original beauty, offer previously unssen looks into the magical world of our animal friends. Enjoy a collection of Disney's award-winning TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURES, including "The Living Desert," and the very first film, "Seal Island." It's a classic collection of animal adventures your whole family will treasure. There was a time when Walt Disney produced mesmerizing nature films for family audiences. Walt Disney Legacy Collection: True Life Adventures, Vol. 2 reaches deep into the studio's vaults to pull together a selection of those remarkable little movies, a television staple for baby boomers who watched Disney's variously-titled series in the late 1950s and '60s. Listen to our interview with director emeritus Roy E. Disney. | Basically, teams of roving cinematographers and other technicians were sent into the field, working under the general guidance of a well-researched script, a director, production group, etc. Ingenious editing, creative uses of music, and even touches of animation resulted in marvelous pieces such as the ones in this collection. Among the six titles here are "Living Desert," set in the American southwest; "Vanishing Prairie," an overview of what were once endless grasslands between the mountainous west and the full forests east of the Mississippi; and "Seal Island," shot on a remote Alaskan island. Nature programs are, of course, plentiful on contemporary television. But the Disney shows were unique at the time for applying high cinematic standards (the Technicolor on "Islands of the Sea," set in the Galapagos, is something to see) to the task of filming lizards, road runners, sandstorms, and exotic flowers. These programs are also tailor-made for young audiences. The more harrowing sequences of predators stalking their lunch, say, or seal pups getting separated from their mothers aren't censored, but they are softened in the editor's room and via anthropomorphic narration. True Life Adventures stands up today as good family viewing, though they are also fodder for nostalgia for viewers of a certain age. --Tom Keogh
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