Just remembered about this whilst watching the closing credits for March of the Penguins. What did they need all those computer designers for?

According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic "lemming migration" was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.

More here
http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlife_news.view_article&issue_id=6&articles_id=56

Man they say in the opening, "a nasty little rodent called the lemming"....hell they don't look nasty from here, they look plump and juicy, and their tundra-ready coats look puuuuuurrrfect for a pair of jammies and matching slippers!!!
"Wait Lemmy, don't migrate, have some fish!"

They do look tasty.
I didn't now that about the footage.

I thought he said "nasty little rodent" the first time round too. I think he actually says "mousey little rodent"... though it's hard to tell, especially given the impending displays of lemming hatred

Snopes.com as a 2nd resource for ya

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm

didn't know. *informative.

Chalk up another little bit of evil to the Disney Corporation.

*dark *lies *documentaries *evil *terrible (who DID think this was a good idea!) *wtf for its being fake.

Adding video to channels (Dark, Documentaries, Lies, Terrible, Wtf) - requested by Thylan.

*promote Don't let the lies spread.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, March 11th, 2007 2:19pm PDT - promote requested by Thylan.

Duplicate, I posted this four months ago.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Chucking-Lemmings-off-a-cliff-for-Uncle-Walt

Sorry, mine is the duplicate, I should have been more specific.