That is literally almost the only thing I remember from it, too.
I loved that stupid film, though; I used to get so excited when various elementary school teachers would trot it out.
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Don’t forget Our friend the Atom
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Me too. That would have been around 1986?
Some of the most awkward (by today’s standards) shorts Disney did were the “Inter-American” educational shorts from 1945; they did a series of shorts aimed at South Americans and Mexicans to teach basic life skills. Several were released on DVD. One I remember was called “Cleanliness Brings Health”, and it compared two Mexican men named Pablo and Pedro if I remember correctly. One of them washes his hands after using the restroom while the other shits in a cornfield and makes dinner with poopy hands, and his family gets sick. There’s something truly bizarre about watching a cartoon starring a Mexican caricature in a huge sombrero being told by the narrator that he should stop eating poop.
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She’s not the only one.
I was already hooked on billiards even before watching this in 7th grade math class but holy crap three-cushion billiards is hard.
Wasn’t he one of those characters who was granted political amnesty and immigration status after the war in exchange for helping the U.S. create an animation program that could compete with the Russians?
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Yeeeeees. This is one of my favorite old Disney animated shorts, i rewatched this a few years ago and still enjoyed it greatly. However of the random animated things Disney has put out the #1 on my list is The Three Caballeros.
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For me it was probably in the late 70s.
It was possibly the most important thing I learned in grade school: We’re a collection of organisms and our bodies are a simulated marine environment.
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I show bits of this when I teach math for liberal arts, but you have to watch out for the falsehoods. For example, while it does an excellent and clever job of illustrating the how the golden ratio appears in ancient and Renaissance art and architecture, that idea has been pretty conclusively debunked. (DDML is probably the reason so many people still believe it.)
W/r to the wonderful Bell Science films, I loved how the Star Trek Voyager producers gave them a shout-out with the tricky way they named the doctor after Hemo. I always assumed this was an in-joke from one set of Bell Science lovers to another.
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Definitely take the golden ratio with a grain of salt. However it does help visualize and understand mathematical patterns being observable in nature. I would consider the golden ratio a good segway into proper examples like… fractals. I’m sure there’s more but not much of a math geek 
Thanks to DDML everyone believes that the Parthenon was built to be in golden ratio, even the authors of the textbook I used last time I taught the course. It was kind of fun to project the photo from that book on the screen then measure the sides of the rectangle they superimposed and see how off of phi it really was.
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