When originally released to theaters in 1953, this 69-minute feature film was double billed with Walt Disney's 21-minute cartoon short Ben and Me (1953), as a 90-minute package deal. This and "Ben and Me" were the first to be released by Buena Vista Film Distribution Company (now Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures). RKO Radio Pictures continued to distribute Disney's cartoons until 1956; they would shut down a year later.
In 1971, Buena Vista Distribution Company reissued this film theatrically on a double bill with The Vanishing Prairie (1954).
Eighth installment of the True-Life Adventures series of nature documentaries produced by Walt Disney, following "Prowlers of the Everglades" and followed by "The Vanishing Prairie". It was also the first feature-length film of the series.
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