The five films included in the film were "Flowers and Trees" (1932), "Three Little Pigs" (1933), "The Tortoise and the Hare" (1934), "Three Orphan Kittens" (1935), and "The Country Cousin" (1936). They were the first five winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The original 1937 version of the film is 41-minutes in length. In 1966, there was a re-release of the film that was expanded to the length of 74 minutes. The reworked version had been expanded to also include the films "The Old Mill" (1937), "Ferdinand the Bull" (1938), "The Ugly Duckling" (1939), and "Lend a Paw" (1941).
This is the first feature-length film created by Walt Disney Productions, preceding the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by 7 months. It is however a compilation film, consisting of five Disney short films which had already won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Due to the lack of original material, it is often discounted by film historians.