“One of Disney’s four “Package Films”. During World War II the studio lost a lot of manpower and resources, which left it with countless unfinished ideas too long for shorts and too short for features. So, inventive as Disney was, it stuck short ideas together into feature-length movies” (IMDb). Combining two shorts, The Wind in the Willows and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow into a feature-length movie, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad had alternate titles, Two Fabulous Characters and Ichabod and Mr. Toad. This would be the last package film by Disney, who returned to single-feature in 1950 with Cinderella. While costs were kept low by reusing previous animation work, the Headless Horseman sequence is memorable today and scary enough for the kiddies to enjoy (after being terrorized, of course). The Wind in the Willows segment was narrated by Basil Rathbone.
