Como Se Hizo Peter Pan /The Making of Peter Pan

don't worry there's nothing wrong with your television set this is a pixie bow the sound is much too high for human ears oh there you are T you get that stuff off of me if you're familiar with the story of Peter Pan you know that little sprinkling of Tinker Bell's fairy dust can make you fly I think hey wait a minute haven't you forgotten something aren't you gonna take the audience along fly away with us second star to the right and straight on till morning and discover the behind-the-scenes story of how the timeless tale of Peter Pan was transformed into a soaring Disney classic but Peter how do we get to Neverland the story of Peter Pan began its life on the London stage in 1904 it was written by Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew berry Sir James berry was inspired I guess he was visited by the muse when he created Peter Pan it was just a marvelous idea and the testament is the fact that it's lived all these years and had so many incarnations he created something that I guess will be immortal in 1913 a touring company of Peter Pan was seen by this youngster the boy was Walt Disney he never forgot this epic of boyhood and its unique combination of fantasy and swashbuckling adventure in 1924 Walt also saw a silent film version of Peter Pan starring Betty Bronson as Peter the film contained many innovations such as a live actress playing Tinkerbell and special effects that were the state of the art for their day the silent film however adhered to many of the conventions of the stage version of Peter Pan including the stars rather obviously flying on wires a performer in a dog suit as Nana and a costumed actor as the crocodile Walt Disney's efforts to make Peter Pan as an animated feature actually began in the late 1930s during the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in an era when Disney's filmmaking imagination was at its peak animation was in many ways the ideal medium for Peter Pan because it's a fantasy Walt Disney himself noted the cartoon method gave us many advantages over the stage craft of Berry's day which no amount of pixie dust could cure here for the first time was a medium where the imagination is limitless animation could do anything and you're so free to do things to picture things to show people things that you couldn't do on stage in 1939 Disney acquired the screen rights and by early 1940 storyboards were begun these never-before-seen watercolor illustrations by renowned British artist David Hall were part of Disney's initial work Hall had also done extensive visual development of Alice in Wonderland for Disney in 1938 in this early version of the story Nana traveled with Peter and the children to Neverland as seen in these rare original story sketches much of the art created at this time was also darker than the original play and far more sinister than a typical Disney effort now my dear princess you'd better talk meteor this is a last chance flies allure no spirit did you ever read Tyler Lee another part of this early work was an elaborate musical number for Captain Hook's pirate crew which was ultimately replaced by a different song the elegant Captain Hook an attempt to persuade the Lost Boys to join the pirates ranks this earlier song written by studio music director Frank Churchill along with Ray Kelly is reconstructed here using a rare song demo recording coupled with never-before-seen storyboard drawings of the original sequence hi pirates the only life for red-blooded men if you think in the future and you'd like a life of people if you'd like to make a fortune for you if you've ever had a hag around to sail the seven seas then a pirate's life is just a life for you Yoho there you go so you might as well make up your minds decide if you'd like a share of plunder if you care for blood and thunder simply step right up and sign by 1941 a basic story structure was completed however the onset of World War two stopped the development after the war Walt Disney brought Peter Pan back into development progress continued throughout the 1940s including extensive concept art by renowned color stylist Mary Blair finally in 1950 he said now is the time let's do it and they did the Disney version of Peter Pan has another interesting first it's the first time a boy was shown as Peter Pan there had been a tradition from the time of Maude Adams on the stage and right through Mary Martin and in recent years Cathy Rigby sandy Duncan many others have done it of women playing Peter Pan but it was something that was broken a tradition it was broken by Walt Disney by showing Peter Pan as a boy now it's an animated boy but it was really a boy's voice and he was depicted as a boy which is what he's supposed to be Walt assigned the character of Peter Pan to animator Milt Kahl I remember hearing Milt Kahl lecture about animation one time and he said that one of the real challenges for him was animating weightlessness animating a character who is sort of floating in mid-air not flying but just sort of floating it's details like that that we in the audience are not supposed to think about of course we shouldn't we're involved in the story young Bobby Driscoll was assigned to the role of Peter we're dead burn Captain Hook throw into the crocodile I guess Bobby Driscoll was an obvious choice for Walt to make because he was the resident juvenile star at the studio Driscoll had debuted in song of the south after which Disney cast him in several projects including so dear to my heart and as Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island get on with it girl my name is Wendy Wendy Mora and to the dollar news enough Walt also didn't have to look far for the voice of Wendy he found what he called the gentle and gracefully feminine voice in the same actress who had played Alice in Wonderland Katherine Beaumont I heard about Peter Pan because the studio had started working on the writing part of it I went directly from finishing Alice and immediately started working on the voice for Wendy wind and rain hi I am here young mistress oh my goodness you got here in a hurry I didn't get to finish the magic words well it so happened that I was in the neighbor haunts can read scene here as the face in the magic mirror was cast in the tradition of the stage play as both Captain Hook teacup and mr. darling Oh Hans can read was inspired casting you'd have to say as Captain Hook he was a consummate actor and had been one of the busiest and best radio actors throughout the 30s and 40s so he was well schooled in how to act to bring the villainous cap hook to animated life Walt assigned veteran animator Frank Thomas fires wondering who is going to get the juicy assignment of doing Captain Hook and now I heard the wrong one me to do it I don't see putting me on them that kind of a villain a comic thing the story man ed Penner had seen him as a father died grand manors you know thought this is a way to live with midnight suppers wine all these gourmet connoisseur type things while the director Soylent is a tough mean guy who'd shoot the cannon and sheep through his own crew on the ship and he was he was a menacing villain he was a menacing opponent forty Japan not let me see where was I Walt knew that for his version of Peter Pan Tinkerbell would have to be developed as a fully realized character from the late 1930s on character sketches traced Tinker Bell's development and each reveals the then-current conception of feminine beauty the character that I worked on was Tinker Bell and Tinker Bell was visualized as a spot of light which no doubt was something like a strong flashlight that moved around the background of Lee of the stage in our medium you couldn't just use a spot of light so I came up with the design that you see here she's a pure pantomime character which in itself I think is very interesting that she didn't talk but you know what she's thinking there's been a rumor for years that she was patterned after Marilyn Monroe it's the kind of likable story people will repeat because it sounds good but it doesn't really wash because she was not a star yet she was not a superstar or a pop-culture icon she was in Hollywood but the designers and animators the Disney wouldn't have known who she was I was Tinker Bell I got this call to come over to Disney to do this audition they said we want her to step on a mirror that up a hand mirror that's on a dresser looked down Priyan herself and then suddenly see her hips and be very uncomfortable with the size of them so I did I said certainly and I stepped on and I looked down and I saw my hips and I measured him I stamp my foot marched away and they said would it be convenient for you to come next Tuesday so they knew that I had the imagination that they needed the use of Margaret Kerry as a live model for Tinker Bell was only part of the considerable reference used by Disney animators to bring Peter Pan to the screen the second part of my performance after after the recording was done was what was really making the film although in this situation it wasn't a film the audience saw it was only for the animators and it basically was done so that the animator could watch the action taking place the audience always got confused and we talked about live-action help we'd say well it artist needs a model you've got to have something to guide you but it's also very helpful in little ways of a guy turning and looking back over his shoulder how far did you turn his head and that and you find if you got the real person to do it this other arm here would come out as a Turner doriath something come up to his chin or some little thing you hadn't thought of and very often that was make this scene if America has an art form I'd say it's the Disney feature cartoon after nearly two decades of work dozens of story treatments and thousands of drawings Walt Disney's Peter Pan was finally finished it was first released on February 3rd 1953 and was an immediate audience favorite it has remained one of Disney's greatest animated achievements and a beloved classic when we watch Peter Pan guess what it's all safe we all come back all right it's a story that has meaning for everybody adults you know looking back and seeing so the boy who doesn't want to grow up the idea of keeping that youthful spirit not surrendering your childhood that's a very strong idea and a very magical one that has enormous appeal and then of course it was sprinkled with that Disney magic I mean talk about you know a perfect marriage Peter Pan and Disney I have the strangest feeling that I've seen that ship before a long time ago when I was very young the process of doing research for this DVD release of Peter Pan the studio archives uncovered a magazine article written by Walt Disney himself entitled why I'm a Peter Pan it was originally published in April 1953 just a few weeks after the film's premiere in a magazine called brief which is no longer in publication what you are about to see and hear is a dramatic recreation of an abridgment of that article in which Walt Disney explains the special significance of this story for him this is truly a rare opportunity for us to hear this story in Walt's own words and the world of make-believe is always delighted and absorbed me ever since I was a little boy it began when I was a child every evening after supper my grandmother would take down from the shelf the well-worn volumes of Grimm's fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen we would gather round her and listen to the stories that we knew so well we could repeat them word for word of all the characters in the fairy tales I love snow-white best and when I plan my first full-length cartoon she inevitably was the heroine next to Snow White I cared most for Peter Pan but my introduction to him was even more exciting we were living on a farm and one morning as we walked to school we found entrancing new posters a road company was coming to the nearby town of Marceline and the play they were presenting was Peter Pan with Maude Adams it took most of the contents of to toy savings banks to buy our tickets but my brother Roy and I did for two hours we lived in Neverland with Peter and his friends I took many memories away from the theater with me but the most thrilling of all was the vision of Peter flying through the air shortly afterward Peter Pan was chosen for our school play and eyes and aloud play people no actor ever identified himself that the party was playing more than I and I was more realistic than Maude Adams in at least one particular I actually flew through the air Roy was using a block and tackle toys we know it gave way and I flew right into the faces of the surprised audience when I began producing cartoons Peter Pan was high on my list of subjects actually it was a long time before we began work on the story and first place I was unwilling to start until I could do full justice to the well-loved story animation techniques were constantly improving but they still fell short of what I felt was needed to tell the story of Peter Pan as I saw it not until 1947 did we begin on production when we finally sat down to go to work we faced a real challenge Peter Pan this is a work of sheer magic and you do not create magic to order we had somehow to recreate the essence make believe and do it in such a way that millions of people who have known and loved Berry's plays since it was first performed in 1904 would recognize it and approve of what we had done we found the key to our approach in the words of Barry himself nothing of importance ever happens to us after we reach the age of 12 and he also once wrote the heartfelt plea oh that we might be boys and girls all our lives packed into these two sentences as the secret that the author had found the understanding that no experience of our grown-up lives can equal the experience of the child to whom everything in the world is bright and new and full of wonder what Barry wished to do and what we had to do in bringing his play to the screen was to recreate a children's world but a children's world in which adults could find a place as a reminder of the difficulty of building this kind of illusory world our research told us how Barry himself was in an agony of nervousness on the historic opening night of his play in London she was afraid of the gallery gods the tough-minded spectators in the cheap seats but he worried needlessly when the audience was asked from the stage the now famous question do you believe in fairies they rose to a man to shout yes Peter Pan's first success then was with grownups the sophisticated first night audience and the adult theater goers who came on the nights that followed for several days did any children see the play but when they did they claimed it for their own and ever since Peter Pan has been something unique in the theatre a fairy tale for children and adults the difficulties of recreating the world that Barry made were great but they were also exciting and stimulating Berry's own play notations in stage directions scribbled during rehearsals were extremely helpful to us his concepts of the characters and their reactions to magical events and strange circumstances gave us more insight into what than the actual dialogue and same description we made no attempt and had no intent to hold the scope of the story to the theatre stage dimension we could find Neverland which very first called never Neverland very much as we pleased the camp of the Indians the pool of the mermaids the trails of the Lost Boys Lagoon of the Pirates ship the cave Skull Island all the mysterious landmarks and berries fanciful geography all could be established with our own imaginations there is no miracle the mind can conceive the cartoon animation technique cannot create we needed no stage wires to lift Peter and Wendy and they're eager Co adventurers into flight across the rooftops we could detach Peter from his rusev shadow the stroke of an animators pencil we can make the little sprite Tinkerbell glow like a Firefly she darts through space and have her speak with the sound of bells our mechanics of fantasy are certainly different from the ones Barry had at his command 50 years ago but I think that in some ways we've come closer to his original concept than anyone else has but he's the same Peter Sam never land on the same Tinker Bell and the same darling family that we have always loved her personality is big but her size is small and with a sprinkling of her magic pixie dust she can make you fly her name is Tinker Bell and she's the most dynamic and well-loved fairy of them all once upon a time a beautiful pixie named Tinkerbell was born she came from the imagination of British author James and Barry who brought her to life in his 1904 stage play Peter Pan the first time anyone saw Tinkerbell was in the world premiere of Barry's play on stage she was just a darting ball of light she communicated with the sound of tinkling little bells since Peter was the only one who could understand her he translated for the children in the audience Tinkerbell made the transition from stage to screen in 1924 in the silent film version of Peter Pan this was the first time that Tinkerbell was seen as a live girl in her film debut she appears as a bright and ethereal creature a free-spirited fairy with a mind of her own her performance was enthralling and magical the Tinkerbell of the silent feature is this ornate pixie she's got this long flowing dress she's got headgear her hair is out I mean she's clearly a magical elf character Tinker Bell's next big break in the movies came in the early 1950s when Walt Disney began work on his animated film Peter Pan Marc Davis one of Disney's most talented animators was assigned the job of giving life and form to this unpredictable pixie Tinker Bell was one that I was asked to visualize and know they knew that this had to be a visual type of character couldn't be a spot of life not in our medium she can't speak she's a pure Scout of my own character which in itself I think is very interesting that she didn't talk but you know what she's thanking faced with this challenge the Disney animators felt that they needed a human model to help them bring Tinker Bell to life there were rumors that she was modeled after starlet Marilyn Monroe but Marilyn Monroe was unknown at the time the Disney studio was developing Peter Pan the true inspiration for the animators was actress Margaret Cary it's magic for me to be able to say yes I was the reference model for Tinkerbell I would walk in and mark and Jerry jarana bee would be sitting next to the camera and they would show me storyboarding that they did what they had in mind and they would talk very quietly to me what they wanted they would mark the area that they wanted me to work in now behind me was this big blue psyche and nothing else usually on the stage once in a while there was a problem that's where your pantomiming comes in because you have to figure out in your head where everything is and what end then hit those marks again so they would tell me what they wanted her to do and then I would become Tinker Bell in front of the Calla breath released in 1953 Walt Disney's Peter Pan was a great success Tinker Bell's larger-than-life personality and fierce independence made her a favorite of boys and girls of all ages Tinker Bell was now a star so I think there's this great sense of humor about Tinker Bell there's this great kind of wry understanding she looks like an innocent little character she's not innocent at all and you know certainly if you were a little boy growing up in that era you'd like Tinker Bell a lot because she's mighty pretty one thing everyone needs to know about Pixies as that they are ruled by their emotions even Tinker Bell can have a hot temper and so Tinker Bell expresses her emotions there's no hiding it there's no subtlety there's no idea of being quiet and demure whatever she thinks is is out there Tinkerbell lives truly in the most my life because fairies are so small and always on the move they unfortunately only have room for one emotional feeling at a time the one emotion Tinkerbell couldn't control was her love for Peter Pan well Peter just took her for granted and she was there as she was annoying she was fun when when he needed her but Peter was all for Peter Tinkerbell is from never Neverland a place where there aren't any rules she is liberated a pixie way ahead of her time she's today's woman she's absolutely today's woman women can do anything I'm gonna try this I'm going to do whatever it is no one has told her yep oh no no that's not what ladies do Tinker Bell represents both a feminist woman a smart woman Tinkerbell has it all a modern fairy who makes her own decisions living life to the fullest you think of those magical qualities and worldwide appeal made her the logical choice to serve as goodwill ambassador for Walt Disney Studios because she's a pixie she can be everywhere all the time Tinkerbell was a great way to open up the TV show it was a great way to bridge segments of the TV show and it was also great to link the live-action parts of the park when she would fly across the castle and introduce the fireworks she was really the gatekeeper she was the one that would open the door and say here's this wonderful world of Disney even though Tinker Bell's influence continues the character of Ariel in the Little Mermaid was inspired by the free-thinking Tinker Bell Tinker Bell pioneered the independent spirit and take-charge attitude of a whole new generation of Disney's leading ladies and because of Tinker Bell's popularity it's no surprise that she'll soon be starring in her own animated feature table to me is magic hole she's fantasy she's really beautiful Tinkerbell has always to be represented the magic of Disney Tinkerbell not only personified Disney magic power of women she's still just as adorable as she ever was she is this feeling of freedom and adventure that people won Tinkerbell is a timeless character the very essence of all that is possible when a fairy is true to herself and in the end Tinkerbell continues to live happily ever after and will always provide the invitation to an ever awaiting world of magic for children of all Tinkerbell brings with her the magic of Neverland when we're with tink we never have to grow up since the misty beginnings of time when man first scratched these crude drawings of the walls of his cave he has felt an instinctive urge to share his impressions with others he was eager to tell not only his experiences but also of the many vivid things some joyful and some tragic that came crowding into his imagination with a desire to communicate these to other people man created the art of storytelling as time went by he found the stories can be told in many ways with crude sketches with events carved in stone or sometimes with a painting that said more than words ever correct tales could be told with hooks and flames and even with music or top- quoi take it or not they're gonna see bigger no joke make it a soul signature yes they were elaborate way of telling a story and no less magical there were simple way now you just set yourself down here mister with opions idol called this bear ready hmm the newest the most bodacious critter of the home world now this year tail didn't happen Jessie yesterday nor today before twas long time ago then shortly after the beginning of the 20th century the motion picture film was discovered a new and exciting way of telling a story now the audience of the storyteller could be lifted and taken beyond book covers and the confining space of the operatic in theater stage now the I could join the soaring fight of the imagined wherever it may lead however wondrous and mine's fun the storytellers dream could now be seen as well as imagined yes now there were all of these many ways of telling stories but more important than this one of the storytellers themselves down through the ages there were the immortal ESOP LaFontaine the great French fabulous the Brothers Grimm William Shakespeare men divinely endowed with wisdom and wit they were the great spinners of adventure yarns James Fenimore Cooper and Robert Louis Stevenson and then there was a very special kind of storyteller a Scotsman by the name of James M Barrie he was the man who said that nothing very important ever happens to us after we are 12 years old you see James Barrie was the creator of the little boy who never grew up Peter Pan Barrie particularly loved the outdoor adventure tales of his fellow storytellers Cooper and Stevenson their fascination and influence on him can plainly be seen in the adventurous characters which appear throughout his story of Peter Pan and although James Barry wrote Peter Pan as a play he shaved at the indoor physical limitations of the stage until the last years of his life he experimented constantly seeking new ways to give his imagination free rein then one day along came another storyteller his name Walt Disney they never met but it was in James Barry and his creations that Walt Disney found a kindred spirit in his decision to make a film of Peter Pan Disney hope to show completely to fulfill those dreams of Barry's which could only be suggested on the stage and so the Disney production of Peter Pan quietly began slowly at first the delicate task of transplanting the creatures of Berry's imagination to the animated screen was undertaken for instance here's Peter Pan's archenemy the pirate captain for mustn't be too short and fat or too tall and thin they're fair that's about right at least this rough sketch and servers are starting for his Nana another character no longer an actor hidden in a dog suit as he was on the stage but the wonderful fluffy creature of Barry's imagination now a wondrous Indian chief as a child might imagine him from a favorite story oh there's the famous picks the Tinkerbell on the stage she could be seen only as a moving light now at last she had a chance to show her personality they were all there the mermaid mr. Smee The Lost Boys Wendy Maiko and John thousands of drawings made thrown away remade tested over and over again then hundreds of thousands of finished drawings to move the characters through the story and the rough sketches for the characters were approved and sent on for development Disney story men began to work out the various scenes of Peter Pan this is done with the aid of large boards onto which are laid out the story sketches in continuity much like the panels in the newspaper comic strip they are rough sketches played against songs and dialogue which have already been recorded here now is the creative storyline of a scene in which Captain Hook and his men mainly try to persuade Wendy and the lost children to join their villainous pirate crew you faster now it was the animators turn to take the story sketches and begin to breathe life and movement into them while the character animators and the story men busied themselves with their individual tasks nearby still another type of artist devoted his efforts to a specialized assignment the story backgrounds there's a pen zai view looking down on the land of never never here the City of London back in nineteen for the mermaid lagoon skull rock here's another department full of strange sounds and violence but no less creative in its own way than the artists with brush and pencil this is the Disney's sound effects department for the production of peterpan over 400 separate sound effects were required right down to the ominous tick-tock of the alarm clock in the stomach of Captain Hook's famous crocodile yes in a hundred rooms and departments Disney artists and artisans craftsmen and technicians were busy telling the story of Peter Pan in their own way amid the ordered confusion of sketches and drawings sounds and music with both individual skill and patient teamwork they work toward the special moment That moment when all the bits and pieces would be joined in a pattern and from it all would suddenly emerge Peter Pan himself appearing out of nowhere - laughs - stop the hands of the clock and for a magical little while again lead the world to a land of dreams and adventure and over the tea you be a career in the you oh he took tests identified his hideouts I ran a minute back where is it mermaid lagoon search that old cannibal cool yeah you you you yes in the art of the storytellers there is magic strange unexplainable gets so real it becomes part of all our lives as Walt Disney joins hands with James berry there is magic born again under their spell the stream comes alive with glowing color and high adventure once you know Peter he will live in your heart forever here for all to see is true magic the timeless art of the storyteller you I clemont's and I'm John Musker in our years with Walt Disney Feature animation we've been animators producers and directors having been through it all we can tell you the probably the most difficult and time-consuming part of the process of making an animated film is getting the story right the process of developing the story can take many years you try many many different ideas and written treatments visual concept art and storyboards some stick but a large number of those ideas get discarded along the way it was no different when Walt Disney was still around and running the studio many of his now classic animated films went through long periods of development before actual animation production Peter Pan was no exception Walt had originally intended for Peter Pan to be his second animated film after Snow White in the Seven Dwarfs which opened in 1937 Peter Pan did not actually make it to the screen until 1953 nearly 16 years later in fact the year that we were born we're here in the studio's animation research library where all the artwork for Disney's animated features is stored some of this material dates back to the late 1930s and early 1940s today we are going to go back in time to take a look at some of those ideas ideas that we're considered but ultimately rejected so please join us now as we take a look at the Peter Pan that almost was Peter Pan began in 1904 as a stage play by JM Barrie which is the story most of us are familiar with a lot of Walt Disney's effort in the early years was spent in trying to find the right balance between faithfully adapting Berry's classic and exploring different ways to tell the story for the medium of animated film for instance in one of the greatest departures from Berry's Peter Pan instead of opening the story in the darlings Nursery Disney explore the possibility of starting the story in Neverland this version establishes Tinker Bell's jealousy as she asks the mermaids if they've seen Peter Pan know if it isn't Little Miss Tinker Bell what's bothering your pretty bells my dear still ringing your bells for Peter Pan careful tink dear you'll crack a chime funny thing Peter Pan's scarcely ever pays any attention to her why should he my new pyjamas little pixie wick see in this opening sequence the lost boys play follow-the-leader and are captured by the Indians Peter makes peace with the Indians makes beat up and they keep the Lost Boys are mad at Peter because if there's peace with the Indians there's nothing for them to do so they want to go to the real world like Peter does and hear mother's telling stories Peter promises to kidnap a mother for them wealth eventually toned down the idea of kidnapping Wendy by returning to JM Barrie stage play in which when is eager to see Neverland another radically different approach to the beginning of the story came from the earliest treatment in May 1939 which was based on Barry's first Peter Pan book Peter Pan and Kensington Gardens this version started with the birth of Peter Pan on bird Island and told the story of how he flew from his nursery in London to return to his birthplace and how he came to live in Neverland and become the leader of the Lost Boys at a story meeting a few weeks later Walt changed his mind saying we ought to get right into the story itself which is when Peter comes to the house to get his shadow that's where the story picks up how Peter came to be is really another story with this approach when movie was to open in the darlings nursery pieces over the next few years Walt and his story team explored several different versions of the nursery scene oh don't knock it motherhood in the film Wendy tells her mother she's keeping Peter Pan's shadow in the drawer shadow in one early version of the story it was mrs. darling who sees Peter Pan outside the window of the children's nursery and captures a shadow in the writers own words the darlings nursemaid is a Newfoundland dog named Nana she is every bit as efficient however as a human nursemaid and diligently goes about her duties turning down the beds and laying out the children's night clothes the night mr. and mrs. darling are dining out and mrs. darling enters the nursery dressed for the occasion she is quite startled to see the face of a mysterious boy peering in at the window mr. darling enters in a tantrum struggling with his dress tie mrs. darling skilful finger subdues a time mr. darling calms down only to blow up again when he collides with Nana and gets his dress suit covered with dog hair Oh when the children are out of earshot mrs. darling tells her husband about the mysterious face at the window recalling a visit from the strange boy a week ago mr. darling is quite sure the whole affair is just so much foolish imagination until mrs. darling produces the shadow that the strange boy left behind after his first visit it proves to be a very lively shadow and mrs. darling barely has time to hide it again as the children return to the nursery ready for bed what's cool about Peter Pan of course is the fantasy and here you know they're standing on a cloud sort of with a rainbow passing that has Nana on the cloud Nana yeah this early version there were some version they actually put Nana and neverland with them and that would have been interesting to see another version suggested telling the entire story through the voice-over narration of Nana the children's faithful nursemaid as she accompanied the children to Neverland you this idea was never fully realized but these discussions probably helped develop the delightful character we know from the Final Four I'm so happy I I think I'll give you a kid in the film Wendi tries to give Peter Pan a kiss but the jealous Tinkerbell destroys the moment by pulling Wendy's hair and some earlier versions Peter doesn't understand what a kiss is shall I give you a kiss she says thank you says Peter holding out his hand expectantly don't you know what a kiss is Wendy asks aghast well not to hurt his feelings she gives him a thimble now says Peter shall I give you a kiss oh if you please says Wendy primly inclining her face toward him Peter drops an acorn button into her hand so Wendy says she will wear his kiss on a chain around her neck these are great I mean there's some wonderful drawings here some which I've never seen before this is a really fun one of John playing with I guess a starfish character yeah in the early versions of the story the one that wasn't released John was actually left behind in the film Wendy Michael and John all fly away to Neverland with Peter Pan leaving Nana at home some of the earlier versions John was left behind for being too practical and serious in the writers own words I'll go says Wendy if my brothers can go to know Peter inspects John's dream it is dull and drab John dreaming of himself as the image of his father he's at a desk adding figures oh not him says Peter disgustedly Peter turns to Michael and looks at his dream michael is fighting an Indian with his right hand and grabbing a tiger by the tail with his left he'll do says Peter and John was left out of the adventure until 1948 when writer Ralph Wright sent a memo to Walt suggesting to make John a strong character a comic little replica of his dad and John goes along only to protect Wendy on this dangerous experiment though he tries to disprove everything at the bottom of the memo won't wrote good time to smile in the film our first introduction to Neverland comes as Peter and Wendy and the boys arrive in an earlier version our first glimpse of Neverland comes just before their arrival in a sequence entitled the vicious circle that established The Lost Boys the Indians and the Pirates in a comical circular chase around the island for a time Walt in his story team played with the idea that Wendy brought along her Peter Pan picture book to Neverland in the writers own words Wendie clutches the book as Peter recklessly exposes himself and the children to capture by taunting the Pirates who charge without hesitation fan quickly pushes the kids behind a huge leap leaving only their feet exposed Smee fires a supercharged blunderbuss at point-blank range belief is blasted to bits leaving only a row of empty shoes the children unseen by the Pirates are safely perched on limb overhead but falls from the tree and into the hands of the Pirates back in the pirate ship the pirates discover hooks picture in the book they are very much amused cook looks at the book and finds himself picture Smee takes a peek at the book and reads aloud the exact location of Peter Pan secret hideout is he's interrupted by hook who yells let me see that Smee obligingly tears the page out of the book and hands it to hook the page is caught by a gust of wind and is whisked through the porthole a comic chase follows ending with the page going over the side of the ship and landing in the water the ever-present crocodile bites out the text leaving only the margins for a time Walt in his story team tried to fit in a sequence similar to a sequence that had been cut out of Snow White Peter brings Wendy and her brothers to his hideout and treats his hungry guests to an imaginary dinner all ready for dinner mates oh boy I will eat hearty mates they are seated at a table and Peter carves in pantomime an imaginary turkey what is this anyway okay business up boys eating invisible celery with sound effects drinking soup filling water glasses etc all in pantomime with sound effects Nana's bewilderment when she is given a plate of food to eat she tries to be polite and licks the invisible food but does not believe Peter when he tells her that there is food on the plate too bad you need real food to enjoy dinner may believe is much more fun the imaginary dinner is followed by a real dinner served by the fairies as Walt said in one of the earliest story meetings I think the fairies ought to wait on them the fairies picked luscious things out of the trees and bring them to them fairies are sort of servants to ordinary kids fairies or something they dream about but down here you clap your hands and fairies appear just ideal but unfortunately as in Snow White this charming scene was cut from Peter Pan as well and this is Roger right there was something with the treasure as a treasure there's some great drawings here this cave filled with treasure that they're sort of silhouetted by these giant candles just great staging on this movie you'd better talk Vidia soon the tide will be in remember there is no path through water to the happy hunting ground one of the first story treatments in 1939 contained a sequence from JM Barrie's play the sequence on skull rock in which Peter Pan rescues Tiger Lily who's been kidnapped by Captain Hook but unlike the final film in that version of the story Peter and the others discover the pirate's treasure hidden in skull rock that's skull Rock where the Pirates bury their treasure a later version of the storyboards shows them exploring skull rock and encountering the Pirates booby traps that garden center that version ended with Tigerlily giving Peter Panda Indian kiss which Peter refers to as a thimble in Indian language hmm curv al Hey in the film's Tinkerbell is banished by Peter Pan for endangering Wendy when she first arrives in Neverland hey Cobell I hereby banish you forever in earlier versions of the story Tinkerbell suffered further humiliations that led to our ultimate betrayal of Peter Pan's hideout one version begins with Smee telling Captain Hook that trouble is brewing between Peter Pan and Tinkerbell Yusei has vanished in Cobell years before on account of Wendy captain but this version goes beyond the film version when Smee informs Captain Hook that Peter is throwing a party for Wendy that very nice and at that party Wendy goes to find Tinkerbell who's sulking in her room Tinka boho to come to the party we're having so much fun trying to cheer Tinkerbell up Wendy takes off her ring and puts it on Tinker Bell's head like a crown why you look just like a little Queen that's it you can be queen of the party but when Tinkerbell comes to the party Peter proclaims Wendy as queen all hail Queen Wendy yeah in the film Captain Hook's men captured Tinkerbell and bring her back to the pirate ship where hook tricks Tinkerbell into revealing the secret location of Peter Pan's hideout Thank You Media you'll be moved fool but in a draft from 1941 Tinkerbell is so angry with Peter and Wendy that she goes of her own free will same idea well we're in the film Wendy sings a song about mothers to the Lost Boys that makes them sad even the pirate sneaking up on the hideout get nostalgic a few years earlier Walt and his story team tried a version of the story in which the Lost Boys decide to go home with Wendy Peter Pan draws a line in the sand telling them that once they go to the real world and grow up they can never return and Wendy gives Peter a piece of her mind and furthermore pieces on here the most conceited dishonest deceitful person I've ever met you never think of anyone but yourself yourself success as you are in one early version after Wendy makes the Lost Boys miss their mothers Peter Pan tells the story of his own mother how he flew out the window as a baby and when he returned he found the window locked and a new baby in his bed my mother had forgotten all about me so you see Wendy you're wrong about mothers they don't wait and some very early versions of the story as in Barrie's play when the Indians make peace with Peter Pan for saving Tigerlily they vowed to guard Peters hideout from the Pirates and the Indians are guarding the hideout when the Pirates attack when John to your plate quiet everybody the Indians won they'll beat the tom-toms it's safe to go now the boys will guide you through the woods the film Captain Hook leaves a package for Peter Pan a bomb disguised as a present from Wendy now into taking a Peter Pan but in the earliest versions of the story Walt Disney and his story team took their cue from JM Barrie's Peter Pan knowing that Wendy in her duties as The Lost Boys mother gave each of the boys medicine before bedtime Captain Hook put poison in Peters dose Tinkerbell tries to warn him but he doesn't believe her so she drinks the poisoned medicine before Peter can tink it was poison Peter begs Tinkerbell not to die telling her she's the most important thing to him and as in the JM Barrie stage production asked the audience if they believe in everything Tinkerbell represents to applaud for her to help keep her alive but after much discussion Walt decided that the appeal for audience applaudes which were so well in the theatre would be difficult to pull off a movie and this is this is from the sword fight between Peter Pan and Captain Hook and wooly rider man again when Idol men animated Captain Hook in the sequence great action animator and it's just full of life this whole sword fight really broad funny slapstick you know there were actually a lot of gags that never made it into the fight singer climactic fight between Peter Pan and Captain Hook was always part of the story the development of the fight through storyboards concerned the gradual creation of specific gags within the fight including one whole sequence that showed Tinkerbell in the Pixies joining in the bath temporarily turning the tide in their favor even the beloved ending of the film went through many many versions until Walt Disney was happy with the resolution of the story in one version Peter Pan gives the Lost Boys the chance to go home in another Nana is the only one who sees the pirate ship sailing off but in the end Peter Pan flies Wendy and her brothers home and then returns to Neverland as the darlings watch from the window Walt Disney was a perfectionist when it came to storytelling and with his team of writers and artists he worked tirelessly to craft foam pushing the technology of animation and the art of storytelling beyond the limits of the films that came before the Peter Pan that almost was contained wonderful sequences emotional moments in the heart that made all his films timeless classics so you can be sure that the Peter Pan that is is the story wall 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Length: 64min 30sec (3870 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 09 2012