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True life adventures. Volume 2: 1975-1976, Lands of exploration.
LIBRA DVD 012 989 discs 1-2
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 012 990 discs 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Walt Disney's legacy collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal behavior.
- Nature.
- Deserts.
- Desert animals.
- Desert plants.
- Prairie ecology.
- Prairie conservation.
- Seals (Animals).
- History.
- Great Plains--History.
- Great Plains.
- Indians of North America--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Seals (Animals)--Alaska--Pribilof Islands.
- Island ecology.
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska).
- Alaska--Pribilof Islands.
- Genre:
- Television series.
- Nature television programs.
- Animal television programs.
- Action and adventure television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 298 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Lands of exploration
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Region 1 ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- The Living Desert is a study of plant and animal life in the arid plain which stretches from Oregon to Mexico and from California to Texas. Includes scenes of a death struggle between a hawk and a rattlesnake, an encounter between a bobcat and wild pigs, a contest between two male turtles for the favor of a female, and the courtship dance of a pair of scorpions. Also shows a time-lapse sequence of desert flowers coming into bloom. The Vanishing Prairie presents information about the area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. In addiition to exploration of animal life, historical concepts about American Indians and early pioneer settlements are included. Seal Island presents the spring return of the animal inhabitants to the Pribilof Islands of Alaska. Mainly focuses on the fur-bearing seals, including formation of harems and the raising of pups.
- Contents:
- Introduction by Roy Disney
- Living desert / director, James Algar ; script, James Algar, Winston Hibler, Ted Sears ; narrator, Winston Hibler
- Vanishing prairie / director, James Algar ; script, James Algar, Winston Hibler, Ted Sears ; narrator, Winston Hibler
- Seal Island / director, James Algar ; narrator, Winston Hibler.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- DVD release of episodes of the Disney television program True life adventurers originally broadcast 1975-1976.
- Bonus features: Islands of the sea ; Nature's strangest creatures ; Prairie ; behind the true-life cameras ; backstage with Roy Disney at Disney's Animal kingdom: desert insects; snakes ; filmmakers' journal ; collectors' corner ; trailers & promos.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0788870181
- 9780788870187
- OCLC:
- 71213030
- Publisher Number:
- 786936710236
- 51115 Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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