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Walt Disney, and his people, won more Academy Awards than anybody, mostly for their True Life Adventures, a bunch of documentaries. All of these were good. Some seemed staged or faked. The scrawny prairie dog who saved his town from the gila monster looked blatantly faked, much of it probably shot indoors. But it was a cute story.
Apparently, their story about lemmings caused Disney a little embarrassment. They documented a swarm of lemmings in their suicidal rush into the sea. We are told, by biologists, that lemmings don't do this. They (lemmings, not biologists) do become over-populated, do migrate in huge swarms, and sometimes drown crossing streams. But, Disney cameramen admitted that they had to throw some lemmings off the cliff into the ocean, because they (the lemmings, not the cameramen) wouldn't jump.