The Brave Engineer | |
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Directed by | Jack Kinney[1] |
Story by | Dick Kinney Dick Shaw |
Based on | The Ballad of Casey Jones by Eddie Newton T. Lawrence Seibert |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | The King's Men |
Narrated by | Jerry Colonna |
Music by | Ken Darby |
Animation by | Milt Kahl Fred Moore Al Bertino |
Layouts by | Don DaGradi |
Backgrounds by | Ray Huffine |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 7:38 |
Country | United States |
The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film,[2] based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones.[3] It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling[4] of the story[5] related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert. It was also released fifty years after Jones was killed.