COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 943 Universal
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Pedigree:
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0910810013
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Walt Disney’s White Wilderness 10/58 File Copy
Painted Cover: Taylor Oughton
Script:? (movie adaption)
Pencils & Inks: Jesse Marsh
Currently tied with one other for the third best of seven copies graded to date. Two copies match the top spot at 9.6. 01/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 1. Filming White Wilderness
2. 2. White Wilderness
White Wilderness
3. 3. Men of the White Wilderness
White Wilderness Also th back cover of this copy.
In 1958 the Disney film of this title won the Oscar for the best documentary in 1958. Wikipedia has some more information of interest:
White Wilderness is an Academy Award-winning nature documentary produced by Walt Disney Productions in 1958 noted for its splendid visuals as well as its propagation of the misconception of lemming suicide.
The film was directed by James Algar and narrated by Winston Hibler. It was filmed on location in Canada over the course of three years. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[2]
Controversy
White Wilderness contains a scene that supposedly depicts a mass lemming migration, and ends with the lemmings leaping into the Arctic Ocean. There have been some reports that the Disney film describes this as an actual suicidal action by the lemmings, but the narrator in the film states that the lemmings are likely not attempting suicide, but rather are migrating and upon encountering water, attempt to cross it. If the water they attempt to cross is too wide, they suffer exhaustion and drown.
In 1982, the CBC Television news magazine program The Fifth Estate broadcast a documentary about animal cruelty in Hollywood, focusing on White Wilderness as well as the television program Wild Kingdom. Bob McKeown, the host of the CBC program, found that the lemming scene was filmed at the Bow River near downtown Calgary and not at the Arctic Ocean as implied by the film. He found out that the lemmings did not voluntarily jump into the river but were pushed in by a rotating platform installed by the film crew. He also interviewed a lemming expert who claimed that the particular species of lemming shown in the film is not known to migrate, much less commit mass suicide. He also discovered that footage of a polar bear cub falling down an Arctic ice slope was really filmed in a Calgary film studio.[3][4]
It remains unclear if Walt Disney was notified or approved of the lemming incident.
[edit] In popular culture
The scene of lemmings leaping off a cliff in White Wilderness was used as political metaphor in a campaign ad promoting Andrew Monroe Rice,[5] an Oklahoma candidate in the 2008 US Senate race.
White Wilderness was the inspiration for 1988 Dead Kennedys song Potshot Heard Round the World.[6]
The film also inspired the theme of the video game Lemmings.
The Blink-182 song entitled "Lemmings", from their 1997 album Dude Ranch, contains the line, "People are what they want to be/ They're not lemmings to the sea". This is an obvious reference to the myth as depicted in the documentary. The early Graham Parker signature tune "Don't Ask Me Questions" which hit the Top 40 in the UK.[7] contains the line - "Well I see the thousands screaming, rushing for the cliffs, just like lemmings into the sea."
^ a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)
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