Which documentary was released first, The Plow That Broke the Plains or Seal Island?
Seal Island (film) Seal Island is a 1948 American documentary film directed by James Algar. Produced by Walt Disney, it was the first installment of the "True-Life Adventures" series of nature documentaries. It won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Solomon Butcher Solomon D. Butcher (January 24, 1856 – March 18, 1927) was an itinerant photographer who spent most of his life in central Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. A settler under the Homestead Act, he began in 1886 to produce a photographic record of the history of white settlement in the region. Over 3,000 of his negatives survive; more than 1,000 of these depict sod houses. Butcher wrote two books incorporating his photographs: "Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska" (1901), and "Sod Houses, or the Development of the Great American Plains" (1904).