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- From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
- Subject: Re: any original Disney movies?
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:13:27 GMT
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- In article <92326.133806RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu>, <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >I've been learning just recently that a lot of the Disney Cartoon Movies which
- >I thought were original stories are actually retellings:
- >
- >The Little Mermaid, originally by some mangaish story?
- >Beauty and the Beast
- >101 Dalmations
- >The Rescuers too?
- >
- >I'm not too positive on all of these but if this is so, how can Disney put so m
- >any trademarks on characters which are not necessarily theirs'?
- >
- >Can anyone make a more definite list of their rehashing of old stories? (Not th
- >at I don't like the movies of course).
-
- Lady and the Tramp is the only original screenplay for a Disney animated
- film; all the rest are adaptations or reteeling of existing stories.
-
- Disney anecdote: Because of the weirdness of the old copyright laws,
- Mary Poppins was in the public domain in the U.S. Disney didn't
- have to pay the author anything for the screen rights. But out
- of the blackness of his heart he voluntarily gave her the munificent
- sum of $5,000.
-
- Erik Timmerman
- Film/Video Department
- RIT
-
-