O Gato da Floresta

Here we have another of Disney's wonderful True-Life adventures. This one concentrates on the wildlife of the Amazonian rain forest. It concentrates on the jaguar.

Although the cats are beautiful creatures, I found the slow-motion images of birds more engrossing, particularly the flock of flamingos taking off.

Although the Disney series is often called out for its faked footage and trained animals, they were instrumental in nurturing a love of wildlife in the 1950s and 1960s, and certainly no worse than TV shows like WILD Kingdom, in which Marlon Perkins would tell its audience "While Jim wrestles the tiger, he's a message from Mutual of Omaha." Did their life insurance policies cover mauling by jaguars?

Very cute, I have recently caught love for these documentaries about the biosphere, here a very fluffy and brasuca example, the Amazon Forest ecosystem, as main characters a beautiful and wonderful Jaguar family, affectionately called cats, we learn from them, about them, and we tasted beautiful images, in love with sloths, a magnificent documented report...

This is the last of Disney's A TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE Feature. It follows a female jaguar in the Amazon as well as the wild life world she comes in contact with. There's the wild Iguazu Falls before it's over-run by tourists. The sloth is endearing and a real eye-opener back then. The lengthy battle between the jaguar and the anaconda is epic.

This is an old style nature film. Disney has been called out for manipulating footage. Certainly, they humanized the animals to make them relateable. It's an old fashion concept. Old photographs of Civil War battlefields were manipulated as much as these films. It was another era. While one can talk about some of these deficiencies, one also cannot deny the wide-spread appeal of these films and its influence on nature-conservation.

Saw this film back in the 60's, when I was around 8/9 years old, and I was very impressed by the amazing filming of two jaguars hunting together and tackling crocodile,anteater and anaconda. Back then such footage was very rare and this film became a top favourite of mine- 10/10 . But, as an adult I now believe that it must surely have been staged and, as jaguars are such hard to film creatures, then perhaps more than two animals were filmed and lots of smart cutting and editing used. But, still... 7/10...

This is a famous Walt Disney documentary, on the Amazon Rainforest and its Jaguar. I found that most of the scenes were edited to make a humanized appearance of the animals. In its day, this film was something special. Today it is historic to Disney lovers. Accustomed to watching the Discover Channel and Animal Planet, it appears hokey, much like John Ford's Battle of Midway. It contains some great footage that was either staged or edited to add character to this documentary. Disney must have wanted to portray animals as humans, there is a family of jaguars that are the main characters in this film. Seems to me that Reptiles are the bad guys in most of his documentaries. Human traits are the common thread in these Disney films, more about the human way of life applied to nature. All in all it is a historic film worth an hour of your time, even for a good laugh at the voice overs.