best of walt disney true life adventures

[waltmad]

probably dropping a clanger & it will be mentioned somewhere, but i can't find it; best of wd true life adventures release date dec 31. now you can tell me off for whats probably old news to you. yay! christmas is coming

[Loomis]

It's not mentioned on our Upcoming page, but a quick check of Amazon says:

Availability: This title will be released on December 31, 1969. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives

This seems to be Amazon's new way of saying "We don't have a release date".

[waltmad]

that confirms the saying, if it seems to be to good to be true, thats because it probably is. excuse me, i just shot myself in the foot.

[Loomis]

that confirms the saying, if it seems to be to good to be true, thats because it probably is. excuse me, i just shot myself in the foot.

Hee hee...

We are all bleeding from one foot or the other on this forum

[Lazario]

If this show is what I think it is, the sort of Nature Documentary show where every episode was about the life of a different animal- I would really LOVE to see that again. They took the format of the really boring nature documentaries and made them really appealing and fun. But I'm such a fan of the production values of those shows, I'd really like either season sets or a similar sort of collection package series- where one collection would have y'know- forest animals, sea critters, high flyers, etc... I probably have the wrong idea about this whole show. But I would really love to see whatever show I'm talking about be resurrected onto DVD.

[Mr. Toad]

I think I just posted this the other day in another thread but True Life Adventures was originally a second or third wave Treasure but it was postponed. Possibly a pet project of Roy Disney?

It is still under consideration for a future Treasure however according to Leonard Maltin.

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

I'd only buy it if it contained this episode!

[musicradio77]

Availability: This title will be released on December 31, 1969.

1969, that's 36 years past.

[englishboy]

I think I just posted this the other day in another thread but True Life Adventures was originally a second or third wave Treasure but it was postponed. Possibly a pet project of Roy Disney?
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Could be, seeing how as Roy E. personally filmed and produced some of those episodes.

Now that he's back on the board, I bet you see these in the next wave of treasures.

[orestes.]

I remember watching those on TV when I was a kid on Family Channel when it was more about classic Disney and not all this new stuff (which is okay but you have to have the classic too!).

I'd buy it, preferrably in a Treasures set but if not I'd still get it.

I'd love to see the lemmings episode again.

[waltmad]

i remember the pair of scorpians courtship dance with the film played back & forth & barndance music. also the one with i think, albatross' coming in to land with commentary of an air traffic controler & we'd shout to the rest of the family "quick THAT one's on again". it was hilarious happy days. yay christmas is coming

[dvdjunkie]

My favorite True Life Adventure film of all time is "Perri". It is all about a squirrel. My next two favorites are "The African Lion" and "The Vanishing Prairie". I have "Beaver Valley" on VHS, but the quality is slowly going away with age and playing so often.

[Mr. Toad]

I am with dvdjunkie. I think Vanishing Prairie and Perri are the two best(in that order)

[ichabod]

It is still under consideration for a future Treasure however according to Leonard Maltin.

Actually, when last we had news from Leonard (about 6 weeks ago) he said that the True Life Adventures were still being considered for release, but no longer as part of the Treasures series.

[orestes.]

Well since they won't be apart of the Treasures series I would love a COMPLETE boxset WITH extras. I have no idea how large the series is though and I've never really bothered to check it up.
Anyone have a guide handy?

[Loomis]

Well since they won't be apart of the Treasures series I would love a COMPLETE boxset WITH extras. I have no idea how large the series is though and I've never really bothered to check it up.
Anyone have a guide handy?

Not sure if this is of any help:

http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/true.html

I'm no expert, but that looks pretty good. As Timon/Pumba said, as long as we get White Wilderness (the Lemming episode), I'll be content

[orestes.]

Thanks for that link Loomis!

Looking at that page makes me believe I have seen them all. All of them bring back forgotten memories especially 'The Vanishing Prairie'.

I remembver when I was young and saw those for the first time I was kind of bored since they were so "old" but even at a young age I grew on them quickly and they actually got me hooked on the show 'National Geographic Explorer' which used to be on TBS. (Now I have no clue where it is)

(Sidenote: Way back when I used to think Stan Freburg was the voice of 'National Geographic Explorer'. I really believed it but I think a few years back I saw that it was someone else. I was disappointed.)

[Hennie]

I love these True Life Adventures, and hope they will release all of them in a nice box or so.

[orestes.]

True Life Adventures Features

The Living Desert (1953) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046008/
69 minutes

The Vanishing Prairie (1954) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047642/
Germany: 60 minutes USA: 71 minutes

The African Lion (1955) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047803/
75 minutes

The Secrets of Life (1956) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049733/
70 minutes 75 minutes (Berlin International Film Festival)

White Wilderness (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052389/
72 minutes

Jungle Cat (1960) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053977/69 minutes 67 minutes (Germany)

True Life Adventures Shorts

On Seal Island (1949) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040763/
27 minutes

Beaver Valley (1950) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042592/

Nature's Half Acre (1951) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043839/

Olympic Elk (1952) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0219222/

Water Birds (1952) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0045314/30 minutes

Bear Country (1953) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0045545/
33 minutes

Prowlers of the Everglades (1953) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0280050/

Other TLA

The Best of Walt Disney's True Life Adventures (1975) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072696/
89 minutes
(according to the site Loomis provided it contains extra footage so it would be nice to see this included as well as bonus perhaps)

True Life Fantasy

Perri (1957) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050837/
75 minutes
(This must be included as well and not as bonus, that's too cheap for this)

People and Places
Another similar spin-off series. There are 18 shorts according to that site and I wouldn't mind seeing these included in the DVD set as well.

The Alaskan Eskimo (1953) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0045485/

Siam (1954) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0047485/

Arizona Sheepdog (1955)

Switzerland (1955) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0048683/

Men Against the Arctic (1955) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0048369/
30 minutes

Sardinia (1956)

Disneyland, USA (1956)
(not the same as the DVD)

Samoa (1956) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0049709/
26 minutes

The Blue Men of Morocco (1957)

Lapland (1957) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050623/

Portugal (1957) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050851/

Wales (1958)

Scotland (1958)

The Ama Girls (1958) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0051339/

Seven Cities of Antarctica (1958)

Cruise Of the Eagle (1959)

Japan (1960)

The Danube (1960)

(Info from http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/true.html)

[Bill W]

Great list orestes!!! I'd love to have a collection of these.

For those interested, "Water Birds" is included on The Rescuers dvd and "Arizona Sheepdog" is within the “Best Doggone Dog in the World” segment on the Old Yeller Vault Disney dvd (it also appears that it will be on the new Old Yeller & Savage Sam 2 movie collection dvd that comes out next week). I can't remember if this was presented in color or black and white though.