Disney Legacy Collection Volume 1: Wonders Of The World

Walt's nephew Roy Disney gives an introduction to the series as a whole and this volume in particular. Roy started out his career as an assistant film editor on the True Life Adventure series....Disc Two Mysteries of the Deep: Total running time 23:55. Groundbreaking underwater photography makes for a visually fascinating piece. Still today many sea creatures like the manta ray remain mysterious and in need of further study. Crystal clear photography and never before examined at the time subjects make for fascinating viewing, even when Disney goes to the old reliable of animals and their young. Male seahorses convulsing to spit out young from a sack under their chest and minute newborn octopi eating their own egg sack for nourishment will pique your curiosity. Roy Disney in his introduction on disc one mentions this as the first screen credit he ever received as he wrote the narration and helped produce. Wonders of the Water Worlds: Total running time 49:32. This was an episode of "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and has an introduction by Walt Disney. It's an amalgamation of just about everything above. Oceans, lakes, streams and rivers are looked at with their various environments and animals. From the pika in the green land of the brook to giant whales in the middle of the ocean. The piece is structured well as we start with rain falling to earth at the start of a brook in the Rocky Mountains and then follow that as it flows down waterfalls, through calm lakes, over raging rapids, mighty rivers and spilling out into the vast ocean before evaporation sends it back to the heavens to come back again as rain...