The Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins, episode 8, the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Oh, H. Oh, I'm going to be here. At least once a year in autumn, Disney replays the classic tale of Icabad Crane and his bone-shilling ride through the dark woods between the hamlet of Terry town and the home of Balthus

Van Tassal through the Valley of Sleepy Hollow.

And while there are plenty of complaints leveled against Disney films and their representations of original stories,

the studio's version of the legend of Sleepy Hollow is surprisingly one of the most faithful

incarnations of the original legend.

Most of us have seen the legend of Sleepy Hollow

either as a standalone or as part of a Disney Halloween

specialist kids, but that's not how it started out.

It was originally one half of the full-length theatrical film,

The Adventures of Icabot and Mr. Toad. Appropriately, the film was released in the month of October

1949 under the tutelage of directors Jack Kenny, James

Algar, and Clyde Geronamy, who collectively were responsible for Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians,

Fantasia, and the Mickey Mouse Club among others.

That's a whole lot of Disney right there.

The Adventures of Icobot and Mr. Toad was considered a package film.

Now what's a Disney package film?

Most of you know, but for those of you don't, I'll tell you.

After the successful slew of Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi,

World War II came, the war effort took over, and many of

Disney's workforce were drafted to help make propaganda films. In order to keep the

feature film division going, Disney released what's referred to as package films,

which are simply feature-length films consisting of several different shorts,

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