 | The Wonderful World of Disney: The Plausible Impossible & The Ranger's Guide to Nature
Buy used from: $14.00 "The Plausible Impossible" (1956). Walt Disney explains how drawings and animation have things that are impossible seem plausible. Also includes an unfinished form of one scene from Snow White that was ultimately not used in the final film. This episode culminates with the Night On Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia.
"The Ranger's Guide to Nature" (1966).
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 | Wonderful World of Disney An Adventure in Color including Donald In Mathmagic Land
Buy used from: $21.98 "An Adventure in Color/Mathmagic Land" (1961). This show introduced a new character named Professor Ludwig Von Drake, who provides an interesting lowdown on color, folloed by "Donald In Mathmagicland".
"Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life" (1981). This installment provides a glimpse at the production of Disney animation, including interviews with surviving members of Disney's "Nine Old Men".
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney: Ducking Disaster with Donald & His Friends, plus Goofing Around with Donald Duck
Buy used from: $34.95 "Ducking Disaster with Donald and His Friends" (1962). Professor Ludwig von Drake demonstrates that humans are responsible for so many accidents because they fail to use reason.
"Goofing Around with Donald Duck" (1963). Professor Ludwig Von Drake takes us on a lesson to study human's psychological makeup, using Donald, Goofy, and Humphrey the bear as his patients.
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| The Wonderful World of Disney- The Yellowstone Cubs plus Flash, The Teen-Age Otter
Buy used from: $1.99 "Yellowstone Cubs" (1963) available on DVD from DMC.
"Flash, the Teen-Age Otter" (1961). The program chronicles the early life and adventures of two otters, Flash and Fleta, and their close-knit family.
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 | Wonderful World of Disney: Ida, The Offbeat Eagle & The Wahoo Bobcat
Buy used from: $67.50 "Ida, The Offbeat Eagle" (1965).
"The Wahoo Bobcat" (1963).
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney: Music for Everybody & Fly with Von Drake
Buy used from: $44.95 "Music for Everybody" (1966). Professor von Drake is back to discuss the importance that music plays in people's lives. It features clips from Sleeping Beauty, The Three Caballeros, and Make Mine Music.
"Fly with Von Drake" (1963). Professor Ludwig von Drake explains the history of human flight from its humble, rudimentary beginnings to the then-present day.
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| The Wonderful World of Disney - Run, Appaloosa, Run; The 101 Problems of Hercules
Buy used from: $11.97 "Run, Appaloosa, Run" (1967). Shot on location in the American Southwest, it's a story of an Indian girl and her horse. She is forced to sell her horse to help her family right before he is to compete in a big race.
"The 101 Problems of Hercules" (1966). Story about a sheepherder in the western frontier days.
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| The Wonderful World of Disney: Pacifically Peeking/Man On Wheels (Donald and the Wheel & Freeway Phobia)
Buy used from: $41.95 "Pacifically Peeking" (1968). Moby Duck, Donald's seafaring cousin, describes life on several islands in the Pacific Ocean, using live footage of those islands.
"Man on Wheels" (1967). This is the last installment to be introduced by Walt Disney. Includes "Donald and the Wheel" (1961), "Freewayphobia" (1965), and "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" (1965).
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney: The Ranger of Brownstone & It's Tough to Be a Bird
Buy used from: $38.99 "The Ranger of Brownstone" (1968). This episode features the cartoons Grin and Bear It, In the Bag, Hooked Bear, Rugged Bear, and Bearly Asleep, plus live-action footage from the partially-animated short Grand Canyonscope.
"It's Tough to Be a Bird" (1970). This 1969 animated theatrical featurette (winner of an Academy Award) deals with M.C. Bird, who talks to the audience about his plight.
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 | Wonderful World of Disney: Nature's Better Built Homes & Joker, the Amiable Ocelot
Buy used from: $18.99 "Nature's Better Built Homes" (1969). Narrated by the animated character Ranger Woodlore, it features clips from the "Walt Disney True Life Adventure" features, as well as animated sequences.
"Joker, the Amiable Ocelot" (1966). Jim Benton salvages an old car he finds in the desert.
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney: Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? / The Hunter and the Rock Star
Buy used from: $4.39 "Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?" (1972). A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s.
"The Hunter and the Rock Star" (1980). Sultan, a gentle Bengal tiger is taken to Sportsman's Island by Alec Frost, a disreputable gamekeeper, and tortured in an attempt to make him vicious.
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| The Wonderful World of Disney: Fire on Kelly Mountain & Adventure in Satan's Canyon [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.75 "Fire on Kelly Mountain" (1973). Although he knows he must stay in his tower to look for other fires, Phil longs to fight fires. Not far away, a major fire is burning, and a crew of other Forest Service workers are fighting it.
"Adventure in Satan's Canyon" (1974). Rob is an excellent sportsman in kayaking but when he blows an important competition, he drops out of kayaking out of fear.
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney: Call It Courage & The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle
Buy used from: $96.00 "Call It Courage" (1973). This special was filmed on location on the islands of Bora Bora and Tahiti, and filming took eight months. Except for the narration, there is no scripted dialogue.
"The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle" (1968). This installment is the Hopi Indian legend of a young boy banished from his tribe for a year for freeing a sacrificial eagle.
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 | The Wonderful World of Disney - Bluegrass Special/ Runaway on the Rogue River
Buy used from: $3.29 "The Bluegrass Special" (1977), available on DVD from DMC.
"Runaway on the Rogue River" (1974). Shortly before filming began the trained elephant that was to play Barney passed away, and obviously a replacement was needed. It was found in Louisville, Kentuchy, and had to be transported to Oregon.
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| The Wonderful World of Disney: Three on the Run / Race for Survival
Buy used from: $0.89 "Three on the Run" (1978). Two brothers enter a dogsled race with white German shepherd, an English sheepdog and a bloodhound. Action happens when a grizzly bear appears.
"Race for Survival" (1978). An African game warden's plane crashes in a remote area in Nairobi. His greyhound, Smokey, escapes from the wreckage with a note with instructions to find the man and help him.
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 | Disney's Halloween Treat
Buy used from: $69.99 "Disney's Halloween Treat" (1982). The video runs about 47 minutes, whereas the originally aired TV episode was 90 minutes.
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