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.
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire - partly inspired by the legendary Atlantis, while some believe it to be based on the anime Nadia: the Secret of the Water.
• 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

See also

• List of Disney animated features

External links

• Walt Disney and Fairytales