The Brave Engineer (1950)

Directed by

Jack Kinney

Genre

animation, family

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated short film tells a comedic tall tale about legendary train engineer Casey Jones. It follows his wild adventures on the railroad with a narrator who adds to the silly and exaggerated storytelling.

whimsicalenergeticfast-pacedplayfulnostalgiclightheartedmusicalzany

What happens

The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling of the story related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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