AnimationSeries· 1953· Adventure

Peter Pan

by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Peter Pan: it draws on 2 recorded sources.

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What influenced Peter Pan

The works this one is recorded as drawing on.

Disney's film adapts Barrie's play rather than the 1911 novel he later made from it, and the stage origin shows in what the film keeps: the nursery, the flight out of the window, the pirates, and the appeal to the audience about believing in fairies. The film's depiction of the Neverland Indians is the part now carrying a content warning on Disney's own platform, and it is an intensification of what the play does rather than an invention of the film.

Peter and Wendy

Book · 1911

AdaptationMEDIUM

Disney's adaptation of Barrie's novel, in development since the 1930s. It keeps the nursery, the flight, the pirates and the crocodile, and removes Barrie's narrator, whose asides about the children's mother are most of what makes the book unsettling.

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Peter Pan

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A boy who refuses to grow up flies into a London nursery to retrieve his shadow, and takes three children back to an island of pirates, mermaids and lost boys where nobody ages and a crocodile follows the captain by the sound of a clock in its stomach.