Disney animated feature film source material

This is a list of source material for Disney animated features in the official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics).

Adapted from books or book series

* "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" - "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" by Dodie Smith
* "Alice in Wonderland" - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll
* "Bambi" - "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" by Felix Salten
* "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" - "Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner" by A.A. Milne
* "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" - "The Magic Bed-Knob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks" by Mary Norton
* "The Aristocats" by Thomas Rowe
* "Lady and the Tramp" by Ward Greene
* "The Black Cauldron" - "The Book of Three" and "The Black Cauldron" from The Chronicles of Prydain series of books by Lloyd Alexander
* "Dumbo" - "Dumbo" by Helen Aberson
* "James and the Giant Peach" - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
* "The Fox & the Hound" - The Fox & The Hound by Daniel Pratt Mannix IV
* "The Great Mouse Detective" - "Basil of Baker Street" by Eve Titus and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
* "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
* "The Jungle Book" - "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
* "Mary Poppins" - "Mary Poppins" and seven sequels by P.L. Travers
* "Pete's Dragon", a short story by "S.S. Field"
* "Peter Pan" - "Peter and Wendy" by James Matthew Barrie
* "Meet the Robinsons" - "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" by William Joyce
* "Oliver & Company" - "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
* "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" - "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
* "The Reluctant Dragon" - The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham, originally a chapther of Kenneth Graham's book Dream Days
* "So Dear to My Heart" - "Midnight and Jeremiah by "Sterling North"
* "The Rescuers" - "The Rescuers" and "Miss Bianca" by Margery Sharp
* "The Sword in the Stone" - "The Sword in the Stone" by T. H. White
* "Tarzan" - "Tarzan" and sequels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
* "Treasure Planet" - "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
* "Victory Through Air Power" by Alexander P. de Seversky
* "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" - "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" by Gary Wolf

Adapted from folk tales, fairy tales or legends

* "Sleeping Beauty" - Fairy Tale/Ballet by Charles Perrault and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "Aladdin" - Arab folk tale from "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights"
* "Beauty and the Beast" - Based on a popular tale by "Gabrielle Villanueve" and "Madame Leprince de Beaumont"
* "Chicken Little" - Loosely based on the folk tale "The Sky is Falling"
* "Cinderella" - French/Chinese fairy tale
* "Hercules" - Character in Greek mythology
* "The Little Mermaid" - Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
* "Mulan" - Chinese folk tale and ballad about Hua Mulan
* "Pocahontas" - American folk tale (inspired by a real event)
* "Pinocchio" - based on the fairy tale of "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi
* "Robin Hood" - English folk tale about "Robin Hood"
* "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" - Fairy tale collected by Brothers Grimm
* "Song of the South" - based on the stories of Brer Rabbit by Uncle Remus, otherwise original.

Original

* "The Emperor's New Groove" - distantly related to the Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen, the original storyline was to be based on The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
* "Disney's Dinosaur" - loosely based on The Countdown to Extinction ride at Walt Disney World, which was renamed Dinosaur
* "Enchanted" - idea by Bill Kelly
* "Lilo & Stitch" - original idea by Chris Sanders

Claimed to be original, but not

* "The Lion King" - partially inspired by "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, the Bible stories of Joseph and Moses, and the Disney animated film "Bambi"; often speculated to be greatly inspired by Osamu Tezuka's classic anime, Kimba the White Lion, due to numerous similarities between the two animations.
* "The Nightmare Before Christmas" - original idea by Tim Burton, pun on the title of the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas.
* ' - partly inspired by the legendary Atlantis, while somewho believe it to be based on the anime '.
* "Brother Bear" - primarily inspired by Native American and Inuit legends and myths.

Combination

* "Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons"
* "Fantasia"
* "Fantasia 2000"
* "Fun and Fancy Free"
* "Make Mine Music"
* "Melody Time"

ee also

*List of Disney animated features

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/6351/disfai.html Walt Disney and Fairytales]