Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jungle Cat. The music is annoying and the narration not especially informative but superb wildlife photography makes this film by Walt Disney about jaguars in the Amazon rain forest a pleasure...
Jungle Cat. Another of Walt Disney's magnificently photographed, though sometimes badly edited and narrated, True-Life Adventures, this time about jaguars in the Amazon jungles...
Jungle Cat (Buena Vista) is another of Walt Disney's magnificently photographed and sometimes irritatingly edited True-Life Adventures, a series designed to show that the works of nature are almost as manifold as those of the California animator. This time the area filmed by Disney's camera-equipped naturalists (James R. Simon, Lloyd Beebe and the late Hugh Wilmar) is the Amazon rain forest, a jungle so nearly impenetrable that only its major rivers have been named. The region's thousands of species of plants grow in a steaming tangle, in some places 200 ft. high...
...film's narration is neither as dreary as some travelogues nor as good as it could be, but at least it is not coy about the rain forest's frequent deaths. And unlike some of Disney's early wildlife films, it lets the animals provide their own humor. The script might have been improved by more scientific detail; adults would have suffered, but youngsters, accustomed to getting missile data on the backs of cereal boxes, would have thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute...
...pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when he wants to invoke God he swears "in the name of all that is being...