Perri (film)

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Perri
Directed by	Paul Kenworthy Ralph Wright
Produced by	Winston Hibler
Written by	Original 1938 book: Felix Salten Screenplay: Ralph Wright Winston Hibler
Narrated by	Winston Hibler
Music by	Score: Paul J. Smith Songs: George Bruns Winston Hibler Ralph Wright Paul J. Smith Gil George Song arrangements: Carl Brandt Orchestrations: Carl Brandt Franklyn Marks
Editing by	Jack Atwood
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	August 28, 1957
Running time	75 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Perri is a 1957 family film from the Walt Disney Studios, based on Felix Salten's 1938 book of the same name. It was the company's fifth feature entry in their True Life Adventures series, and the only one to be labeled a True Life Fantasy. In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters.

The story's title character is a young female squirrel who learns about forest life, and finds a mate in Porro, a male squirrel. In the film, there are seasons called the Time of Beauty, Time of Peace, and Together Time.

Instead of the European forest in which Salten set his work, a nine-man camera crew led by Paul Kenworthy and Ralph Wright shot Perri in Utah's Uinta National Forest and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (for the winter sequences). Some 200,000 feet were shot during production; only 8,000 were used in the finished product.

True Life regular Winston Hibler not only continued as the series narrator, but for this film also served as a screenwriter, songwriter and producer.

Upon its release, Perri was generally well-received by critics and audiences. Along with all of the other True Life Adventures, it premiered in December 2006 on Disney DVD as part of the Legacy Collection.

Peri Gilpin, a star of Frasier and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, was named after this movie.