And you’d have needed plenty of energy to join Disney’s exploration of Latin America, as documented in Technicolor in Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, which intercut real-life footage of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro with artists’ sketches of the Andes and animated shorts of Donald Duck doing the samba in Brazil and visiting Lake Titicaca.

In the late 1940s, Disney ventured into the realm of nature documentaries with the aptly titled True-Life Adventures series. There were 13 films in total and the crew went from examining seals on the Pribilof Islands in Alaska to spending three years charting the life of lions in the arid plains of Africa. Aside from picking up eight Academy Awards along the way, the series became fodder for Adventureland in the very first Disneyland theme park, with many of the natural wonders Disney’s studio documented over the years recreated in animatronic form in the Jungle Cruise attraction. Disneyland captures the spirit of a man who wandered far in real life and in his imagination; it’s a world where no destination is too far or fantastical.