Paul Bunyan (film)

Paul Bunyan is a 1958 American animated musical short film produced by Walt Disney Productions.

DTV sets clips of the short to Annette Funicello's Tall Paul and is featured in an episode of Sing Me a Story with Belle.

Paul's work opens up the American west to trade; soon a slick-talking salesman named Joe Muffaw encourages the loggers to "get with the times and become modern" by using steam-powered chainsaws to cut trees, and a steam train to transport the timber (up until this point Babe would haul the timber to the river on a wooden sled).

Paul protests that nothing can replace the heart and soul of himself and Babe, while Joe counters that his steam-saw and engine can cut and haul more timber than any man or ox, and the two men decide to host a tournament with only one rule, that whoever creates the highest pile of lumber at the end of the contest will be declared the superior way.

Paul and Joe work tirelessly throughout the tournament cutting down trees, with Babe furiously racing against the steam train.