The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Also known as Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 American animated package film
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"The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is a 1949 American animated film that combines two separate stories in one movie. It matters as a classic example of mid-century animation that helped establish Disney's storytelling style during the post-World War II era.
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 68
- FilmAffinity ID
- 324339
- Official website
- movies.disney.com/the-adventures-of-ichabod-and-mr-toad
- Image
- Ichabod and Mr. Toad trailer screenshot.png
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- publication date
- 1950-02-12
- title
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- working title
- Two Fabulous Characters
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- Commons category
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- production code
- 2067
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It consists of two segments: the first based on Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows and narrated by Basil Rathbone, and the second based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and narrated by Bing Crosby. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen, and was directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, and James Algar.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad began development in 1940 as a single-narrative feature film based on The Wind in the Willows. After a series of production delays, the project was cut down to a short film and eventually merged with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (which was also originally conceived as a full-length feature) in 1947. It is the last of the studio's package film era of the 1940s; they returned to full-length animated films starting with Cinderella in 1950. Disney would not produce another package film until The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977).