The Adventures of Teacher I and the Little Toad is an animated film directed by James Alger and voiced by Claude Allister and Basil Rathborn.
This is Disney's 11th classic novella feature film, and the two-paragraph "Little Toad" is based on Kenneth Grahame's original book "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Legend of Sleepy Valley" is based on the story of the same name in Washington Irving's book The Sketch Book. The film tells the story of the adventures of the little toad.
This is Disney's 11th classic novella feature film, and the two-paragraph "Little Toad" is based on Kenneth Grahame's original book "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Legend of Sleepy Valley" is based on the story of the same name in Washington Irving's book The Sketch Book.
The film is a novella compilation of two adventure stories. "Little Toad" is a little guy who loves to ride a drag car and eat the mountains and skies, but later he ran into prison and his family property was also forcibly occupied, so he launched an earth-shattering adventure in order to regain everything; "Legend of Sleepy Valley" is a teacher named Ichabod, who came to Sleepy Valley from other places to teach, and later even chased the most beautiful lady in town, but on Halloween night, Teacher Ichabod was chased by halloween ghosts, and finally mysteriously disappeared. These two adventure legends have a taste of rural wonders, the soundtrack songs also present a folk-style style, and the climax of the plot proves that Disney has the strength to make another feature film. The main characters in the "Little Toad" passage later made a cameo appearance in the 1983 novella Mickey's Christmas Carol; The group of weasels next to the villain who framed the little toad reappeared in the 1988 live-action animation masterpiece "Wei Detective Breaks through the Level".
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is Disney's 11th classic animation, released in 1949, consisting of two novellas, "The Legend of The Little Toad", based on Kenneth Grahame's original book The Wind in the Willows, and "The Legend of sleepy valley" by Washington Irving of the same name in the book The Sketch Book.
It was not until 1999, the 50th anniversary of the film, that the United States first released a full video of the film, which was previously released only two paragraphs separately, and then released the "Golden Collection" video and DVD in the United States in 2000. The soundtrack was not released. Disneyland originally had the "Adventures of the Little Toad" ride, but Disney World has been removed, and Disneyland in California has been strongly blocked by many fans to save it.
In the history of great animation, Disney's 11th kinetic masterpiece, Ikabo and Mr. Todd, became the best children will never forget.
This film includes two segments, "Little Toad" (also known as "The Wind in the Willow Forest") and "Legend of Sleepy Valley", which are very well-known themes, the former is a British theme, the latter is an American theme; The former is a classic children's literature with a global reputation; The latter is a well-known rural legend, which was also made into the movie "Guillotine Valley" over the years. At that time, Disney could not make a feature film, so it forced the two works together to launch, which also became a major failure of the film in its natural physique.
The first is the "Little Toad" passage, which is starred by Disney's anthropomorphic animal characters, the plot is brilliant, the character arrangement is also very rich, this section is only a song sung by Todd when he was racing. The plot presented by the flashbacks of the characters is arranged, and then there is the battle in Todd's mansion, and the plot twist is very climactic.
"Legend of Sleepy Valley" takes the musical theater route, opening with Mr. Ikabad appearing in the town, just like the opening "Belle Paragraph" in "Beauty and the Beast", followed by a theme song describing the heroine Katrina, and a song about the Headless Horseman at the Halloween banquet. The songs in this paragraph have a folk-style style, which is very special, and greatly adds some points to the musical part of the film. The story is a little scary, the shape of the headless horse is very good, even the dark horse is imposing, and the shape of the protagonist Ikabad is not very attractive, but it is also very special.
The two are very good, but the style is quite different, so it is really strange to be in one movie, especially unlike the previous "Mickey and The Magic Bean" between the two paragraphs also arranged between the live actors and puppets to string the scene, "Teacher Yi and the Little Toad Adventure" directly opened the two books into two stories with different styles, which is really a bit sleek, and also makes the film as a whole have congenital defects. Basically, arranging "Teacher Yi and the Little Toad's Big Adventure" into such a movie is really a "big adventure" in itself.
Perhaps because of the physique of the film, the role of this film does not have a too prominent image for the audience, and the popularity of the characters in the film is not high, but some of the characters in "Little Toad" later appeared in Mickey's novella "Mickey and the Stingy God of Wealth Celebrate Christmas", and the Weasel Evil Party later reappeared in the movie "Wei Detective Breaks through".
Although the film suffered a big loss in the coherence of the film, the two paragraphs are not bad when viewed separately, which also proves that Disney actually has the ability to continue to shoot long-form works after experiencing the reorganization and scheduling during World War II.
The Adventures of lchabod and Mr. Toad
【Tablet duration】About 68 minutes
【Genre】Disney's 11th classic animation, a novella compilation drama animation
【Paragraph Name】This film includes two novellas:
1. 小蟾蜍﹙Mr. Toad﹚，又名“The Wind in the Willows”
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"Little Toad" is adapted from Kenneth Grahame's original book "The Wind in the Willows"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is based on the story of the same name from Washington Irving's book The Sketch Book
【Related Distribution】The videotape did not release the full video tape for the first time in the United States until the 50th anniversary of the film in 1999, before only the two passages in the film were released separately, and then in 2000, the "Golden Collection" video tape and DVD were released in the United States. The soundtrack was not released. Disneyland originally had the "Adventures of the Little Toad" ride, but Disney World Florida has been removed, and Disneyland, California, still exists under the strong resistance of many park fans.