Animators from
Walt Disney Productions used film from the series as reference material for a wide range of animals. During the production of
The Rescuers (1977), animator
Ollie Johnston cited footage from the series—showing the clumsiness of
albatross take-offs and landings—as inspiration for the mice's mode of transportation in the movie.
Masaichi Nagata, the president of the Japanese film studio
Daiei Film produced a nature documentary film in 1957 under the influence of the series. A 1982
Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary titled
Cruel Camera interviews a cameraman who worked on the series, who said he disliked the inaccuracy of the narration. In a notorious example he discussed, the
lemmings' mass suicide in
White Wilderness was staged, with the same small group of lemmings repeatedly shoved off a cliffside—rather than hundreds intentionally jumping as stated by the narrator—into
Alberta's
Bow River, rather than the
Arctic Ocean as is depicted. In 2003, the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game discussed the lemming-suicide myth and in 2022, business magnate
Elon Musk referred to the story after calling for
Mickey Mouse to be released into the
public domain, tweeting: "Ironic that Disney would disparage an entire class of rodents when their main character is a rodentjealous maybe?" In 2007, Disney established a new nature film label called
Disneynature, which produces feature films similar to the
True-Life Adventures series. In March 2019,
Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, including the nature-themed
National Geographic Films. The Disney+ series
Behind the Attraction (2021) cites the films as an influence on Walt Disney's decision to create
Jungle Cruise as one of
Disneyland's first rides. == See also ==