Disney animated feature film source material
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This is a list of source material for Disney animated features in the official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics).
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[edit] 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
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks - The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton
- The Black Cauldron - The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
- Dumbo - Dumbo by Helen Aberson
- 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 by Rudyard Kipling
- Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins and seven sequels by P.L. Travers
- Oliver & Company - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Peter Pan - Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie
- Pinocchio - Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- 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
[edit] Adapted from folk tales, fairy tales or legends
- Aladdin - Arab folk tale from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
- Beauty and the Beast - French folk tale
- Chicken Little - Loosely based on the folk tale The Sky is Falling
- Cinderella - French folk tale
- Hercules - Character in Greek mythology
- The Little Mermaid - Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
- Mulan - Chinese folk tale about Hua Mulan
- Pocahontas - American folk tale (inspired by a real event)
- Robin Hood - English folk tale about Robin Hood
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Folk tale collected by Brothers Grimm
[edit] 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
- Lilo & Stitch - original idea by Chris Sanders
- 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.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire - partly inspired by the legendary Atlantis
- Brother Bear - primarily inspired by Native American and Inuit legends and myths.
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