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As you know, most of the Disney classic animated films are based on an older work. But how many of those older versions have you actually read or seen?
To help you get started, here's a list of all the sources I'm aware of. Note that I'm not including any one of the animated shorts that are wholly original or just based on general myth, since most of them are and I'd be here all day, but I will account for any feature films or package films that are 100% original.
Did I miss anything? Anything else you think should be included? Let me know!
Snow White (Grimm)
Pinocchio (Collodi)
Fantasia:
Bambi, a Life in the Woods (Salten)
Make Mine Music:
Alice in Wonderland
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Smith)
The Sword in the Stone (White) - add if you read the original or revised (omnibus) version if you know!
The Jungle Book (Kipling)
The Aristocats (McGowan, Rowe)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Black Cauldron
Beauty and the Beast (du Beaumont)
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (unknown - added to Thousand and One Nights by Galland)
The Lion King
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs)
Fantasia 2000
Meet the Robinsons
Real-Life/Historical Sources:
Here's my personal results!
Snow White, Casey at the Bat, Cinderella, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Peter and Wendy, The Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone (revised), Winnie-The-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Hamlet, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Noah's Ark, The Emperor's New Clothes, Treasure Island, Chicken Little (actually it was Henny Penny and no, I don't remember the version), The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, The Snow Queen.
Bonus: Romeo and Juliet, Ali Baba and the King of Thieves, James and the Giant Peach, The Little Match Girl.
That's 22 with 4 bonuses!
To help you get started, here's a list of all the sources I'm aware of. Note that I'm not including any one of the animated shorts that are wholly original or just based on general myth, since most of them are and I'd be here all day, but I will account for any feature films or package films that are 100% original.
Did I miss anything? Anything else you think should be included? Let me know!
Snow White (Grimm)
Pinocchio (Collodi)
Fantasia:
- The Nutcracker (Tchaicovsky)
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Goethe)
Bambi, a Life in the Woods (Salten)
Make Mine Music:
- Casey at the Bat (Colonna)
- Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) - especially if you've seen it live!
- Little Bear Bongo (Lewis)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (Tabart; Jacobs; others)
- Little Toot (Gramatky)
- Trees (Kilmer)
- The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving)
Alice in Wonderland
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
- Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
- Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (Barrie) - the play
- Peter and Wendy (Barrie) - the book
- Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog (Greene)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Smith)
The Sword in the Stone (White) - add if you read the original or revised (omnibus) version if you know!
The Jungle Book (Kipling)
The Aristocats (McGowan, Rowe)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne)
- The House at Pooh Corner (Milne)
- The Rescuers (Sharp)
- Miss Bianca (Sharp)
The Black Cauldron
- The Book of Three (Alexander)
- The Black Cauldron (Alexander)
- Basil of Baker Street (Titus)
- Oliver Twist (Dickens)
Beauty and the Beast (du Beaumont)
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (unknown - added to Thousand and One Nights by Galland)
The Lion King
- Hamlet, probably (Shakespeare)
- Kimba the White Lion (Tezuka) - manga or the show!
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs)
Fantasia 2000
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Andersen)
- The story of Noah's Ark (Biblical)
- The Emperor's New Clothes (Andersen)
- Treasure Island (Stevenson)
- My Western Home / Home on the Range (Higley) - the poem
Meet the Robinsons
- A Day with Wilbur Robinson (Joyce)
- The Frog Prince (Grimm)
- Rapunzel (Grimm)
- The Snow Queen (Andersen)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
- The Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss)
- Homeward Bound (Burnford)
- Mary Poppins (Travers)
- Car, Boy, Girl (Buford) - The Love Bug series
- The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (Norton)
- Bonfires and Broomsticks (Norton)
- Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Wolf)
- Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) - The Lion King 2
- Ali Baba and the King of Thieves (unknown, added to The Thousand and One Nights by Galland) - Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- James and the Giant Peach (Dahl)
- The Little Match Girl (Andersen) - originally intended for Fantasia 2006, released as a short
Real-Life/Historical Sources:
- Make Mine Music - "The Martins and the Coys."
- Melody Time - "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed," "Pecos Bill."
- Pocahontas
- Mulan
- Robin Hood (original telling of Robin Hood story)
- The Rescuers Down Under (original sequel to an adaptation of a book)
- Hercules (Greco-Roman myth, original telling of Hercules story)
- Winnie-The-Pooh (original sequel to an adaptation of a book)
- Big Hero 6 - but bonus points if you've read the original Sunfire & Big Hero Six #1-3.
- Moana (Polynesian myth)
- Saludo Amigos
- The Three Caballeros
- Dinosaur -listed as a classic in the US
- The Wild - listed as a classic in the UK
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Lilo & Stitch
- Brother Bear
- Bolt
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Zootopia
Here's my personal results!
Snow White, Casey at the Bat, Cinderella, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Peter and Wendy, The Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone (revised), Winnie-The-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Hamlet, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Noah's Ark, The Emperor's New Clothes, Treasure Island, Chicken Little (actually it was Henny Penny and no, I don't remember the version), The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, The Snow Queen.
Bonus: Romeo and Juliet, Ali Baba and the King of Thieves, James and the Giant Peach, The Little Match Girl.
That's 22 with 4 bonuses!
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