The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
For the next few days, we will look at movies that inspired some of the original attractions in Fantasyland. First up is the movie The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The Movie: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is the 11th film in the Disney Animated Canon and the last of the 1940s package films. During and immediately after World War II, instead of producing films like their earliest ones that had a single narrative, Disney put together movies that "packaged" 2 or more loosely related segments. They had already used this structure with Fantasia, but these projects were not anywhere near the scale of that movie. The final of these films paired two segments based on popular literary works that had one time been envisioned as separate projects before being placed together. In the reverse of the title of the movie, the first segment tells the story of Mr. Toad and is based on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The title Mr. Toad is t...