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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936710236
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 169 minutes
Sales Rank: 13639
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1953
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Experience 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.
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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.
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| 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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The DVD box is a bit too fancy, but I have been looking for this 'living desert' since I was 16...
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I would not have wanted to know anything before bought this product,since I saw it when I was very young and am so glad it is now on DVD. It is as I remembered and I am very well pleased. I have three of them with one more to buy.
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This is an excellent reissue of these classic Disney True-life adventures.
Although heavily choreographed (use of forward and reverse filming, for instance - classically in the scorpion hoe-down in The Living Planet), they were often the first warning bell of things to come and, in their time, one of a very few films to depict wildlife "in the wild".
The colors have been digitally corrected so they now look much better than the originals (1950s).
Nice presentation tin as well.
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The program is excellent. Any nature lover or young person should really enjoy this one.
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Great to see this pressious work from Walt Disney again.
Presented by Roy Disney proof to have great teast!
Movies maid in the fifty's have not lost there charme and quality.
a Great achievement to bring back this artwork and fully restaurated.
I recommanded all four volumes!
I hope that the Disney compagny make an second release on Blu Ray.
For the mean time:
Roy does it again!
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