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Winston Hibler
Winston Murray Hunt Hibler (October 8, 1910 – August 8, 1976) was an American screenwriter, film producer, director and narrator associated with Walt Disney Studios. Biography and career Hibler was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1910. He was the youngest child of Christopher Hibler and Louise Eisenbeis. He wanted to be an actor in New York at the age of 12. In 1930, he graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and performed on Broadway, ''In the Best of Families''. Later in the same year, he married Dottie Johnson, with whom he had three children. A year later, he moved to Hollywood to pursue his career on Broadway. He appeared in a small role in '' The Last Days of Pompeii''. Later, he took up freelance writing for magazines and radio to help supplement his income. In 1942, Hibler joined Walt Disney Productions as a camera operator. Then later on, he worked as a technical director for the U.S. Army training films. As a songwriter, Hibler con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg ( ; ) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 50,099 as of 2020, Harrisburg is the ninth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, also known as the Susquehanna Valley, which had a population of 591,712 in 2020 and is the fourth-most populous metro area in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is situated on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, southwest of Allentown and northwest of Philadelphia. Harrisburg played a role in American history during the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the 19th century, the building of the Pennsylvania Canal and later the Pennsylvania Railroad allowed Harrisburg to develop into one of the most industrialized cities in the Northeastern United States. In the mid- to late 20th century, the city's economic fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature's Half Acre
''Nature's Half Acre'' is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by James Algar. In 1952, it won an Oscar at the 24th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). The film was produced by Walt Disney as part of the ''True-Life Adventures'' series of nature documentaries, and was paired with ''Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (also known as ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English Children's literature, children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics university don, don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a ...'' during its original theatrical run. Plot Cast * Winston Hibler as Narrator References External links * * 1951 films 1951 children's films 1951 short documentary films American short documentary films True-Life Adventures 1950s English-language films Disney short films Films produced by Walt Disney Films scored by Paul Smith (composer) Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures
''The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures'' is an American Documentary film#Compilation films, compilation documentary film produced by The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Productions, directed by James Algar and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buena Vista Distribution on October 8, 1975. The film is composed of highlights from the List of Academy Award–winning films, Academy Award winning ''True-Life Adventures'' series of 13 feature length and short subject nature documentary films produced between 1948 and 1960. Synopsis The film opens with a salute to Walt Disney, a pioneer of nature films and animal lover, followed by a compilation of excerpted segments from the ''True-Life Adventures'' film series showcasing animals of all kinds depicted in dramatic, fascinating moments of habitats from the Prairie, American prairie to the List of North American deserts, North American desert, to Africa, the Amazon rainforest, Amazon jungle and to the Arctic. Featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Grizzlies
''King of the Grizzlies'' is a 1970 adventure film directed by Ron Kelly and written by Jack Speirs, Rod Peterson and Norman Wright as a loose adaptation of Ernest Thompson Seton's 1900 novel ''Biography Of A Grizzly''. The film stars John Yesno, Chris Wiggins, Hugh Webster and Jack Van Evera. The film was released on February 11, 1970, by Buena Vista Distribution. Plot Moki, a Cree Indian in the late 19th-century West, works as a foreman on the ranch belonging to his former Army commanding officer, Colonel Pierson. Moki wears the sign of the tribal totem on his hand—a four-toed track, the mark of the grizzly bear. A grizzly bear invades Pierson's land and kills a steer. Pierson shoots the bear and one of her cubs, missing the other. The surviving cub falls over a cliff and into a river and is swept downstream. Moki searches for the cub and learns that it has only four toes on one of its feet. He names it Wahb, which means four-toed grizzly. He captures the bear, and sets him f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo And The Dancing Chihuahua
Pablo is a masculine given name, the Spanish form of the name Paul. People * Pablo Acha (born 1996), Spanish archer * Pablo Alarcón (born 1946), Argentine actor * Pablo Alborán (born 1989), Spanish singer * Pablo Aimar (born 1979), Argentine footballer * Pablo Armero (born 1986), Colombian footballer * Pablo Bartholomew (born 1955), Indian photojournalist * Pablo Berger (born 1963), Spanish film director and screenwriter * Pablo de Blasis (born 1988), Argentine footballer * Pablo Brandán (born 1983), Argentine footballer * Pablo Brenes (born 1982), Costa Rican footballer * Pablo Bueno (born 1990), Argentine footballer * Pablo Carreño Busta (born 1991), Spanish tennis player * Pablo Casals (1876–1973), Catalan cello virtuoso * Pablo Cavallero (born 1974), Argentine retired footballer * Pablo Couñago (born 1979), Spanish footballer * Pablo Cuevas (born 1986), Uruguayan tennis player * Pablo Virgilio David (born 1959), Filipino cardinal, current Bishop of Kalookan * Pablo E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Cat (film)
''Jungle Cat '' is a 1960 American documentary film written and directed by James Algar. The documentary chronicles the life of a female jaguar in the South American jungle. The film was released on August 10, 1960, and was the last of Walt Disney Productions' ''True-Life Adventures'' series of documentary feature films. Synopsis An amazing adventure to Brazil to discover the supreme ruler of the Amazon jungle: the jaguar. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of a jaguar family in life-and-death struggles with a caiman, a peccary, a pirarucu, and an anaconda. Release The film was shown during the 10th Berlin International Film Festival in June 1960 and was one of a few to also be screened in East Berlin. Reception Howard Thompson of ''The New York Times'' wrote: "As written and directed by James Algar, this is one of Mr. Disney's best—intimate, tasteful, strong and matter-of-fact".Thompson, Howard (August 18, 1960)"Disney Double Bill".''The New York Times''. 19. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Wilderness (film)
''White Wilderness'' is a 1958 pseudo-documentary film produced by Walt Disney Productions as part of its '' True-Life Adventure'' series. It is noted for its propagation of the myth of lemming mass suicide. The film was directed by James Algar and narrated by Winston Hibler. It was filmed on location in Canada over the course of three years. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1959 Berlin Film Festival. Reception Howard Thompson of ''The New York Times'' wrote: "Mr. Disney has assembled a fine, often fascinating color documentary on animal life in the North American Arctic". Geoffrey Warren of the ''Los Angeles Times'' stated: "Walt Disney has turned again to Nature for adventure and profit. With ''White Wilderness'' the master of unusual entertainment has struck pure gold, for this is probably the best of his many true- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perri (film)
''Perri'' is a 1957 American adventure film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten's 1938 novel '' Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel''. It was the company's fifth feature entry in their ''True-Life Adventures'' series, and the only one to be labeled a ''True-Life Fantasy''. In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters. Description The story's title character is a young female squirrel who learns about forest life, and finds a mate in Porro, a male squirrel. In the film, there are seasons called the Time of Learning, Time of Beauty, Time of Peace, and Together Time. The film was produced, narrated, and written by Winston Hibler, who had previously narrated Disney's ''True-Life Adventures'' series of documentaries. ''Perri'' was described as "True-Life Fantasy" to avoid confusion with ''True-Life Adventures''. Production ''Perri'' was shot over the course of three years. The footage used in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of Life
''Secrets of Life'' is a 1956 American documentary film written and directed by James Algar. The documentary follows the changing world of nature, space and animals. The documentary was released on November 6, 1956, by Buena Vista Distribution. Synopsis Life on Earth is a constant battle, and all of nature is in a constant state of development. As nature has changed over billions of years, so too has life had to change with it. Earth provides both protection and destruction to its species, and these constant processes force the planet’s lifeforms to adapt if they are to survive. The plants surrounding the earth are a key source of life, for they contain seeds which cause new flora to bloom. Some of these seeds can be carried by the wind, such as the cottonwood. Others, like the wild oat, are self-sowing. In the strangest of cases, like the pine some seeds will only blossom at the touch of a forest fire, which serves a purpose in nature’s story despite its destruction. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The African Lion
''The African Lion'' is a 1955 American documentary film directed by James Algar. It was released by Walt Disney Productions as part of its ''True-Life Adventures'' series. The film, which was shot over a 30-month period in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda (as well as South Africa), focuses on the life of the lion within the complexity of the African ecosystem. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear (Documentaries) award. It was released on DVD in 2006 as part of the Walt Disney Legacy Collection. It can be found on the third volume of the ''True-Life Adventures'' series where it has been fully restored. Reception Bosley Crowther of ''The New York Times'' wrote that "we're fairly certain that no visitor to the famous high plateaus of Kenya and Tanganyika, where the excellent color footage of this picture was exposed, ever succeeds in seeing as much of the local wild life or getting as close to it as one does in this handsome film ... A commendable job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vanishing Prairie
''The Vanishing Prairie'' is a 1954 American documentary film directed by James Algar and released by Walt Disney Productions. The theme music was given a set of lyrics by Hazel "Gil" George. It was rechristened as "Pioneer's Prayer" in '' Westward Ho, the Wagons!'', a western film about pioneers on the Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and Westward Expansion Trails, emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what .... ''The Vanishing Prairie'' was released on video in 1985, and 1993 in United States. Synopsis Cast Awards * 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Gold Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films) * Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1954) References External links * Information at Disney.com* 1954 films Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners Films shot in Oregon True-Life Adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prowlers Of The Everglades
''Prowlers of the Everglades'' is a 1953 American short documentary film directed by James Algar. The film was produced by Ben Sharpsteen as part of the ''True-Life Adventures'' series of nature documentaries. It was shot in Technicolor by Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma, who were on assignment for nearly a year, making film reports on ever aspect of the Everglades. This would also be the last of the True-Life Adventure films to be distributed by RKO Radio Pictures before Walt Disney would take his own distribution company Buena Vista International. Summary A photographic study of the wildlife of the Florida Everglades The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orlando with the Ki ... describes the habits of the many birds found in the swamplands and explains that the alligator rules over the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
