James Algar Filmes

Oscar Winning short documentary

This short covers some of the wildlife (predominently birds) on four islands-the Galapagos, Guadelupe, Falklands and an island in the Midway chain....

This is the story of the “smoke jumpers,” specially trained by the Forest Service to reach forest fires when they are in the inaccessible...

Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It is a pictorial...

The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures....

A young fox unexpectedly finds himself in San Francisco, where, after many misadventures, he is befriended by a boy in Chinatown. The boy helps the...

Part of the "True-Life Adventure Series"; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney...

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.

A coyote tries to escape the encroachment of man onto his territory and is befriended by the wife of a couple monitoring the environment for the...

The experiences of various wildlife in twenty-four hours is explored with a High Sierra background. A weasel and her brood, grouse and a lizard are...

Seal Island is a 1948 American documentary film directed by James Algar. It won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

Scientists study the migratory habits of the green sea turtles, attaching a transmitter to the shell of Solomon, a 350-pound example. Solomon has to...

James Algar, the writer-director of Walt Disney's "True-Life Adventures" short subject series, takes the viewers of the TV anthology Disneyland...

We're off to Australia in the shortest of the short films found on this volume. There's lots of cute little baby animals to be found, but there's a...

Flush riveting is a way of connecting two pieces of sheet metal together, using rivets whose heads do not protrude above the surface of the metal. In...

In the first part, Walt Disney presents a famous animal photographer named Alfred G. Milotte, who presents clips of his African trip that has...

Animated short documentary film made to advance the cause of a balanced diet for the benefit of the public health and for the advancement of the...