James Algar

All Movies of James Algar

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 Year

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  7.1
  Fantasia 2000
  It presents new interpretations of great works of music. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set ...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  9.0
  Grand Canyon
  Scenes from the Grand Canyon set to Ferde Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite".
  Director of the film

   1958

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  6.0
  White Wilderness
  This Disney "True-Life Adventure" was filmed on location in the Arctic. Covering the period from the Spring thaw to the winter freeze, the film offers rare and fascinating glimpses of polar bears, walruses, wolves, carib...
  Director of the film

   1958

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  The African Lion
  Out of the heart of Africa now comes natures greatest drama... Three years of waiting, watching, stalking... in the shadow of the brooding Kilimanjaro, and on the wide expanses of the Serengeti Plains...
  Director of the film

   1955

• 
  7.0
  The Vanishing Prairie
  Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
  Director of the film

   1954

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  The Alaskan Eskimo
  Director of the film

   1953

• 
  6.0
  Bear Country
  This documentary short won an Oscar for Two-reel short and was well-deserving of the honor. Everything about this is excellent-cinematography, locations, even the narration, which can be a problem with Disney live-action efforts,
  Director of the film

   1953

• 
  7.9
  The Living Desert
  Documentary of the live of flora and fauna in a desert in the US.
  Director of the film

   1953

• 
  6.0
  Nature's Half Acre
  The variety of wildlife in a meadow - particularly insects and flowers - is observed over the course of a year, through the use of microphotography and time-lapse photography.
  Director of the film

   1951

• 
  6.0
  Beaver Valley
  Fondly remembered by so many schoolkids, Beaver Valley was the second of the True Life Adventure series and won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel, for 1950. Highlights include an incredible mid-air mouse transfer between ...
  Director of the film

   1950

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  In a small town named Sleepy Hollow, a gangly schoolteacher named Icabod Crane comes to town. Despite his unattractive appearance, he quickly proves to be a ladies man who charms the local beauty, much to the local tough, Brom Bon...
  Director of the film

   1949

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  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
  Two stories. The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him...
  Director of the film

   1949

• 
  7.0
  Seal Island
  The first of the True-Life Adventure featurettes. Fur seals arrive on the Pribilof Islands for the purpose of mating. The older seals are known as bulls and have "harems" of females which they protect very seriously. The younger m...
  Director of the film

   1948

• 
  7.2
  Victory Through Air Power
  An animated documentary promoting of the soundness of strategic aerial bombing in World War II.
  Director of the film

   1943

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  The Sorcerer's Apprentice (S)
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas. Based on Goethe's 1797 poem Der Zauberlehrling. Mickey Mouse, the young apprentice of the sorcerer Yen Sid, attempts some of his master's magic tricks but doesn't know how to control them.
  Director of the film

   1940

• 
  7.8
  Fantasia
  In this 1940 Disney masterpiece, Leopold Stokowski conducts Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Suite, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Mussorgsky's dramatic Night on Bald Mountain, just a few of the classical pieces accompanied by ast
  Director of the film

   1940