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Ben Sharpsteen
Benjamin Sharpsteen (November 4, 1895 – December 20, 1980) was an American film director and producer for The Walt Disney Company, Disney. He directed 31 films between 1920 and 1980. Sharpsteen created a museum documenting the history of California's first millionaire, Samuel Brannan, Sam Brannan, and the history of the Napa County, California, Upper Napa Valley as well as more on Sharpsteen's life and work at the Sharpsteen Museum located in Calistoga, California. He died in Napa County, California. Filmography References Further reading * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharpsteen, Ben 1895 births 1980 deaths American film producers American animated film producers Businesspeople from Tacoma, Washington Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Directors of Palme d'Or winners American fantasy film directors Film directors from Washington (state) Film directors from California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and east of Olympic National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the List of municipalities in Washington, third-most populous in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Puget Sound, South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, called in the Lushootseed, Puget Sound Salish dialect, and “Takhoma” in an anglicized version. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Birds
A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water. In some definitions, the term ''water bird'' is especially applied to birds in freshwater ecosystem Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems that include the biological communities inhabiting freshwater waterbodies such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands. They can be contrasted with marine ec ...s, although others make no distinction from seabirds that inhabit marine habitats, marine environments. Some water birds (e.g. wader, wading birds) are more terrestrial while others (e.g. Anseriformes, waterfowls) are more aquatic, and their adaptations will vary depending on their environment. These adaptations include webbed feet, beaks, and legs adapted to feed in the water, and the ability to dive from the surface or the air to catch prey in water. The term ''aquatic bird'' is sometimes also used in this context. A related term that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia 2000
''Fantasia 2000'' is a 1999 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the sequel to Disney's 1940 animated feature film '' Fantasia''. Like its predecessor, ''Fantasia 2000'' consists of animated segments set to pieces of classical music. Segments are introduced by celebrities including Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn & Teller, James Levine, and Angela Lansbury in live action scenes directed by Don Hahn. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to develop a ''Fantasia'' sequel, The Walt Disney Company revived the idea shortly after Michael Eisner became chief executive officer in 1984. Development paused until the commercial success of the 1991 home video release of ''Fantasia'' convinced Eisner that there was enough public interest and funds for a sequel, to which he assigned Disney as executive producer. The music for six of the ... [...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] |
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] |
Ama Girls
''Ama Girls'' is a 1958 American short documentary film produced by Ben Sharpsteen. The short was part of Disney's '' People & Places'' series and depicts the lives of '' ama'' divers, Japanese women who dive for pearls. Ama Girls won an Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by '' Gigi'', which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by ''Gone with the Wind'' and tied by '' From He ... in 1959 for Documentary Short Subject. It is also known as ''Japan Harvests the Sea''. References External links * * 1958 films 1958 short documentary films 1950s American films 1950s English-language films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners CinemaScope films Disney documentary films Disney short films Documentary films about underwater diving Films produced by Ben Sharpsteen Films produced by Walt Disney Films set in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Walt Disney Anthology Television Series Episodes
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, ''The Wonderful World of Disney'', was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 onward. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1983. After a two-year hiatus it resumed, running regularly until 1991. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of ABC in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most recent being a holiday music special in 2019. In 2020, the series returned with movies from th ... [...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] |
The Living Desert
''The Living Desert'' is a 1953 American nature documentary film that shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the Southwestern United States. The film was written by James Algar, Winston Hibler, Jack Moffitt (uncredited) and Ted Sears. It was directed by Algar, with Hibler as the narrator and was filmed in Tucson, Arizona. The film won the 1953 Oscar for Best Documentary. Production ''The Living Desert'' was the first feature-length film in Disney's ''True-Life Adventures'' series of documentaries focusing on zoological studies; the previous films in the series, including the Oscar-winning '' Seal Island'', were short subjects. The documentary was filmed in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the wildlife shown in the film was donated to what would soon become the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The film was inspired by 10 minutes of footage shot by N. Paul Kenworthy, a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's footage of a battle be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
