agreed and signed a contract with the navy for 20 war-related shorts for $90,000. Most of the company's employees worked on the project and created films such as Victory Through Air Power, and included some of the company's characters in several of the films. In August, 1942, Bambi was released as Disney's sixth animated film and performed poorly at the box office. In 1943, following the trip to South America, the studio made Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros; the two films are package films, several short cartoons grouped together to make a feature film. Both films performed poorly upon their releases. Disney made more package films, including Make Mine Music (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), to try to recover from its financial losses. The studio started production on less-expensive live-action films with a mixture of animation, starting with Song of the South which became Disney's most controversial film. Because the company was short of money, in 1944, it planned to re-release its feature films to create much-needed revenue. In 1948, Walt Disney Studio began the nature documentary series,True-Life Adventures, which ran until 1960 and won eight Academy Awards. In 1949, during production of the animated film Cinderella (1950), the Walt Disney Music Company was founded to help with profits for merchandising, hoping the music from Cinderella would be a hit. 1950–1967: Live-action films, television, Disneyland, and Walt Disney's death In 1950, Cinderella, Disney's first animated film in eight years, was released and was considered a return to form for the studio. With a production cost of costing $2.2 million, it was Disney's most financially successful film since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, making $8 million in its first year. Walt had not been as involved as he was with earlier films because he was distracted with trains and visited England to make Disney's first fully live-action film Treasure Island (1950). Because Treasure Island was a success, Walt returned to England to produce The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men. In 1950, the television industry began to grow, and on 25 December, NBC aired the company's first television production "One Hour in Wonderland", which was a promotional program for Disney's next animated film Alice in Wonderland (1951) and sponsored by Coca-Cola. While Walt was in England, Alice in Wonderland was released; it was financially