Although there are a few select scenes that, to an adult, clearly indicate that this movie is fiction, please note that the film is presented more as a documentary than a fictitious story, similar to those old Wild America or National Geographic television programs.The concern with this is that there are many scenes that depict the general public interacting with these wild animals in a far too casual and inappropriate manner. For example, families feed the bears up-close and personally, out in the open, and not even from within their vehicles. There is also a scene in which, after the narrator states that the mother bear is "dangerous", a man who encounters her calls the Ranger for assistance, and then proceeds to attempt shooing this dangerous mother bear away with a chair like some kind of circus lion tamer! The boundaries between human beings and nature are definitely blurred for young minds. If you rent this movie you will no doubt have to re-educate your children on the do's & don'ts of wildlife safety.This movie was made in 1963.I don't think they'd get away with producing something this irresponsible today... Last year ago a woman visiting Banff put some honey on her son's hand so she could get a picture of him with the bear. The bear starting chewing on her son's hand. This past summer a man was mauled to death in Yellowstone because a mother bear was protecting her cubs and some hikers got too close.

While watching the Sunday Disney Movie one evening, our dad jumped up and yelled the "There's the 'Diaper Daddy' (dad always gave his vehicles names - from 1959 to 1964 he had at least 2 kids in diapers)! There in the background, was our red Chevy station wagon driving past with a large piece of plastic flapping in the wind. A couple of summers prior, we went on vacation, traveling from Valentine, Nebraska to Seattle Washington, stopping various places, including Yellowstone to see 'Old Faithful'. It seems that we were stopping at least once a day during the trip to re-tie the plastic to keep our luggage dry. By the time the movie had gone from the theater to the television, it had been a couple of years and we no longer had 'Diaper Daddy' and was driving 'Tator digger' because it bottomed out every time it hit a bump in the road. Bob C. Hookham

I rated it pretty high, because I remember it as an episode of Wonderful World of Disney from the early 1960s, and *I have not seen it since.* So I last saw the show about 45 years ago as a teenager. I do recall that, like most Disney shows, it was well produced, cleverly written, and the narration by Rex Allen was the perfect complement to the rest of the production.My family had bought a color television in 1958, and this was a color production. In fact, the Wonderful World Of Disney was one of the early color productions on NBC. Sunday evening was quite a treat.I still vividly remember the scene of the two little bears breaking into a cabin *and wrecking the place.* I especially the scene in which one of the bears climbed up to the cabinets and pulled the container of flour onto himself. Too Funny!

I bought this video off eBay, because it combines two of my favorite things in the world – Disney and Yellowstone National Park. I also bought it because I've heard great stories from my father and aunt of what Yellowstone was like when they were kids. Well, this video is the perfect way to remember those times. The roads were different, the cars were different, picnic areas would also serve as camping spots, and most significantly, bears were very abundant as tourists fed them Pop Tarts, marshmallows, and other snacks. Go to Yellowstone now and you will be extremely lucky to see a bear from a far distance.In the movie, it's almost scary to see the tourists get so close to the bears. These are wild, unpredictable animals, not pets!! The movie's narrator notes this, but nothing too serious really happens. The story is kind of nice and a little bit dopey, but that's all good. A mother bear is separated from her two cubs when they crawl into a family's food box and are accidentally taken to a campground. The mother bear tracks down the family only to have missed her kids, but she refuses to leave. The rangers have to take her in and put a large splotch of yellow paint on her forehead, and if she is in trouble again, she will be destroyed.So it's kind of surprising to actually feel concern in this story. You just don't expect that. You feel sad for the mother bear and the cubs, but they do all right as they try to tack each other down over a few months. Some hijinks ensue as the cubs drive a boat (you have to see it to believe it) and enjoy a smorgasbord of goodies at Old Faithful Inn. These are all real bears doing this, but you can tell the camerawork gets a little iffy. For example, if you want a cub to struggle getting a pot off its head, simply just play, rewind, play, rewind, and so on. It's pretty funny to see.Nevertheless, this is just a nice little story. It's perfect for my family and I, and also for those who've enjoyed vacations to Yellowstone and/or people that just enjoy Disney's storytelling.My IMDb Rating: 9/10