"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an episode of Disneyland. It aired on October 26, 1955. The episode is a televised version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Synopsis[]
In this episode, Walt Disney introduces us to the life of Washington Irving, the author of the Sleepy Hollow tale. "Most of us are well acquainted with Ichabod Crane and the legend of Sleepy Hollow," Walt says, "a story which has entertained and delighted readers for a century and a half. But some of us may be less familiar with the man who created the legend of Sleepy Hollow and whose literary genius brought him international recognition as America's first professional man of letters." So before hearing Bing Crosby narrate for us the story of Sleepy Hollow, we are given a brief biography of Washington Irving.
Both the Irving biography and the Sleepy Hollow short are vintage Disney at its wholesome best. Simultaneously entertaining and educational, this program would be aired several times throughout the following decades on the anthology series and would also air on The Disney Channel for several years around the Halloween season.
Cast[]
- Walt Disney - Host
- John Dehner as Washington Irving
- Bing Crosby as Narrator (edited from: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
Additional crew[]
- Music: Oliver Wallace
- Production Supervisor: Harry Tytle
- Background artist: Dick Anthony
- Layout Artists: Tom Codrick, Basil Davidovich
- Animators: George Kreisl, Don Lusk, Dan MacManus, Thor Putnam
- Photography: Bert Glennon
- Film Editor: Donald Halliday
- Special Processes: Ub Iwerks
- Special Effects: Bob Ferguson
- Sound: Robert O. Cook
- Sound Engineer: George Lowerre (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- The bats flying out of the abandoned house's attic are in fact reused animation from Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence, namely when said bats fly out of a church's belltower; while the owl that scares young Washington is reused animation from "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad", namely the owl that appears in the night-time forest sequence when Ichabod Crane travels home at night.
- Reused animation of Benjamin Franklin using the printing press in "Ben and Me" is used during Washington's tour of the city.
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