DISNEYLAND: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW {SEGMENT} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of family programs, presented under the umbrella title of "Disneyland," hosted by Walt Disney. This animated program, also released as "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad," is an adaptation of the 1820 short story by Washington Irving. This asset contains the conclusion and climactic chase sequence, in which schoolmaster Crane rides through the dark forest after the party at the Van Tassel's, thinking of "Brom's awful story" and frightened by the strange noises of the woods, imagining the crickets and frogs to be saying "Ichabod." Just as he convinces himself that the sounds are harmless, he encounters the Headless Horseman and flees, terrified, through the forest. He makes it to the bridge, over which he has been told the Horseman cannot cross, but the ghost throws its pumpkin head at Crane and hits him. In the morning, Crane's hat is found beside the shattered pumpkin, but the schoolmaster is never seen again. Rumors say that he is alive and married in another town, though others believe that he was "spirited away" by the Horseman. Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: ABC
• DATE: October 26, 1955 8:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:08:32
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: B:81180
• GENRE: Children's programs
• SUBJECT HEADING: Children's programs; Animation; Ghosts
• SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1954-1958
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Walt Disney … Producer
• Clyde Geronimi … Director
• Jack Kinney … Director
• Erdman Penner … Writer
• Joe Rinaldi … Writer
• Winston Hibler … Writer
• Washington Irving … Based on the short story by
• Oliver Wallace … Music by
• Don Raye … Composer
• Gene de Paul … Composer
• Bing Crosby … Narrator