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Bookmark this pageThe Best of Walt Disney's True Life Adventures (1975)
Director: James Algar
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
True life? The 'adventures' in this compilation are about as true to life as those ads with cats wearing bow-ties and sheep sauntering by washing-machines. Disney's field photographers procured fine and rare footage, only to have it dolled up with jokey editing, cute music, and a patronising commentary: scorpions doing a barn dance, polar bears rolling down ice-caps by mistake, ducks slipping on a frozen pond, and Skinny the bravado squirrel demonstrating his bravado. The final image consists of a skyful of birds: you expect them to form the words 'The End', but they never do.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: James Algar
Producer: Ben Sharpsteen, James Algar
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 89 mins
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