![]() Did you know they use their tusks for prying open shellfish? Or that their name is Scandinavian for “whale horse”? Well, now you do. A pod of walruses makes their way into the newly opened water as Hibler shares some interesting walrus trivia. The thaw connects the animals of the tundra to the open sea for a limited time only, so everybody has to hurry up and feed. An actual river unfreezes and, as the water begins moving, the ice crust cracks and shatters into enormous boulders. Stirring music plays as drop-by-drop, snowmelt turns into raging rivers. Glaciers still exist there (or… they did in 1958…), and as spring warms the weather, bits of them melt away into the river. At this point, the general public knew very little about the Arctic, so Hibler is eager to share this mysterious world with us. ![]() An animated snow flurry transitions into a real snow flurry as we begin out second-to-last True Life Adventure in earnest. Wooly rhinoceri, mammoths, and mastodons, among others, are remembered only as cave paintings. But for some, those adaptations weren’t enough. Hibler explains how the glacier’s movements shaped the mountains and valleys of the world and the bodies and habits of the animals that lived in it. It paints a portrait of the world when a quarter of it was covered with a massive glacier. But was it worth it? Was it? STORYĮpic, mysterious music heralds the penultimate arrival of our good buddy the magic paintbrush. And of course, this movie won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Critics also said that the music here was the most fitting and appropriate that it’s been yet, which worries me because that says to me that there will be less comic effect. These feelings were intensified by the fact that few people had actually seen what the Arctic looked like at this point, so this was their first introduction to the ecosystem. As they have with the previous True Life Adventures, critics and audiences were amazed by the beautiful color photography. ![]() Other than that, critical reception of White Wilderness was largely positive. Not illegal back then, but definitely unethical and something that Walt would have been furious if he’d had a hand in the film past doling out paychecks. I’ll go into detail later, but it’s really, really bad. ![]() A Canadian documentary called Cruel Camera showed the world how the filmmakers really got that footage, and it’s not pretty. It’s the one thing anyone remembers from this movie, and it wasn’t exposed until 1982. However, none of these little white lies compare to what filmmakers do to these poor lemmings in White Wilderness. The prairie dogs in The Vanishing Prairie lived behind a pane of glass. The Living Desert was largely filmed on a tabletop. We’ve known for a while that the True-Life Adventures aren’t always as true to life as they claim to be. All photos are capped from my copy of the movie with InstantShot! unless otherwise specified. The opinions expressed therein reflect those of the authors and are not to be viewed as factual documentation. The authors’ claim no ownership of this material. Any material, including images and/or video footage, are property of their respective companies, unless stated otherwise. Grab your parka and let’s find out just how some filmmakers will go to win an Oscar!ĭisclaimer: This blog is purely recreational and not for profit. Sure, we’ve had films that aren’t exactly sensitive, but for the most part, they’ve gone under the radar. It’s been a while since we’ve had a good old-fashioned Disney controversy.
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