James Algar Movies

Animals of all kinds are filmed in different moments of habitat.

Oscar Winning short documentary

A look at the people that shot the footage for Disney's True-Life Adventures.

A pinioned trout-farm goose takes a wild gander for her mate. But when he's blown off course in a storm, and then winged, he's going to have to make...

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...

Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale...

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

A gold prospector with a stubborn donkey survives the harsh mountain winter and saves a motherless fawn.

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

The first half covers the initial construction of Disneyland, followed by Nature's Half Acre during the second half.

"Walt Disney was utterly mad, in a constructive way... Only fanatics in this world accomplish anything, everyone else drifts. What he accomplished is...

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

Depicts the animal life, including ospreys, otters, beavers, and others, in a small area near the Grand Teton Mountains. Based on the book by Sally...

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...

A boy learns the duties of a shepherd from his idol, the ranch foreman, high in the Colorado mountains. When the foreman becomes ill, the boy has to...

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...

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...

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...