This is was one of the Nature films that Walt Disney made in the late forties and early fifties under the ‘True Life Adventures’ series and which proved very popular as supporting films at that time

This is not one I remember but I do recall ‘The Vanishing Prairie’

In the USA ‘Prowlers of the Everglades’ went out on the same programme as another Walt Disney main feature – ‘The Sword and the Rose’

Walt Disney had become concerned that, with some of his previous releases, he had no control over the supporting film and he felt that some of the ones chosen – particularly in England – were not ideal so the organisation chose to make these Wild Life films and use them.

As far as I can discover this didn’t result in any improved success for the main film.

At about the same time on Television, Walt Disney promoted clips from these films in his ‘Disneyland’ programmes and quite strongly – he was a pioneer in this promotion through TV.

I go back to the short promotional film ‘The Riddle of Robin Hood’ which was given to the BBC and they showed it along with their Test Card and Interlude snippets again and again. This was early 1952 on the release of ‘The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men’

I also remember similar promotion of ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ a little later although I don’t recall this one as being very exciting – it seemed to have a lot of underwater scenes which got a little tedious after a while

Earlier films in the series such as ‘Beaver Valley’ and ‘Seal Island’ and ‘The Water Birds’ were all made in Technicolor