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Many of the animated and live-action films produced by Walt Disney Pictures are based on pre-existing works, including novels, short stories, legends, folk tales, television series, anime series, and other films. Some compilation films, such as Fantasia also include segments that are based on such works.
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From books
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad - Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Alice in Wonderland - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
- The Aristocats by Tom Rowe
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire - partially inspired by The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bambi - Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks - The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton
- The Black Cauldron - The Chronicles of Prydain book series of books by Lloyd Alexander
- Dumbo - Dumbo by Helen Aberson
- 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
- James and the Giant Peach - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Jungle Book - The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
- Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins and seven sequels by P.L. Travers
- Meet the Robinsons - A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce
- Oliver & Company - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians - The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
- Pete's Dragon, a short story by S.S. Field
- Peter Pan - Peter and Wendy by James Matthew Barrie
- Pinocchio - The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- The Reluctant Dragon - The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham, originally a chapther of Kenneth Graham's book Dream Days
- The Rescuers - The Rescuers and Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp
- So Dear to My Heart - Midnight and Jeremiah by Sterling North
- The Sword in the Stone - The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
- Tarzan - Tarzan 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 K. Wolf
From folk tales, fairy tales or legends
- 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 (based on a real event)
- Robin Hood - English folk tale about Robin Hood
- Sleeping Beauty - Fairy Tale/Ballet by Charles Perrault and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 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.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire - partly inspired by the legendary Atlantis, while some[who?] 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.
Partial adaptations
- Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
- Fantasia
- Fantasia 2000
- Fun and Fancy Free
- Make Mine Music
- Melody Time
Short stories
- Lady and the Tramp - "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" by Ward Greene
See also
References
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