J On The Spectrum - Disney's 100th Anniversary - Medieval Times
Disney's 100th anniversary is this year, and to celebrate, I'm going to tell the story of this legendary animation company over a yearlong period.
Continuing into the 1960s, Walt Disney was the premiere provider of all American family entertainment, yet still made those animated films every so often. Following One Hundred and One Dalmations, Disney would begin work on two different animated films, Chanticleer, and The Sword in the Stone, based on T.H. White's book of the same name. Walt had purchased the rights to the book in 1939, and finally got around to making it around 1960. Chanticleer moved steadily in development and pre-production, but after several disagreements between the top animators, storymen, and Walt Disney himself, Chanticleer was shut down and they caved into to The Sword in the Stone instead. Chanticleer would later be picked up by Don Bluth and repurposed into the animated feature Rock-A-Doodle by 1990.
Walt wasn't very involved so much in the production of The Sword in the Stone, yet according to Floyd Norman, he was involved in every movie that was produced at Walt Disney Productions throughout his entire life. This marked a significant moment in Disney history, because it's the first animated Disney feature that had songs from Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, the Sherman Bros. According to Richard, anytime you ever did something that pleased Walt for any given production, he wouldn't really say, "That's great!" or anything like that, he just simply said to you, "That'll work." The Sherman Bros are given very little to do in this film, and it does show. Also, this animated feature just happens to be @JamesNintendoNerd's favorite of the Disney classic features. He is known as the Angry Video Game Nerd on YouTube.
As the 60s dragged on, people may have felt that Disney was creating an ideological image ignorant of somehow evolving with the times. They may have dismissed his films as kitschy or corny or something. They must have felt the same way about this movie once it opened in London on December 12, 1963. The film took in $4.75 million at the box office in the United States and Canada on a $3 million budget, which doesn't scream success. Variety reviewed the film saying it, "demonstrates anew the magic of the Disney animators and imagination in character creation ... But one might wish for a script which stayed more with the basic story line rather than taking so many twists and turns which have little bearing on the tale about King Arthur as a lad." I would tend to agree. Sure there are great moments in the film, but there aren't that many memorable moments in there, and it appears to be lacking in substance. To me, during the entire Disney A-lister and significant moment animation marathon, out of all the films Walt Disney made as animated features in his lifetime, this one is just about the weakest. Walt Disney himself was getting weak as well. Being of a generation that smoked and drunk a lot, he had to have frequent doctor visits and one hospital visit due to health problems from both smoking and drinking. All this time he was planning a big project in Florida called E.P.C.O.T., or the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which would be a cutting edge community of the future from a mid-century view.
Yet despite the theme parks, the future building, the television shows, and live action projects, there was one film that Walt Disney always wanted to make, and he had wanted to do it ever since the longago days of Snow White and Pinocchio.
Next week, Walt Disney creates what critics call "His Greatest Masterpiece", kicking off the film career of a Broadway actress, and garnering the most Oscar recognition of any film in his life, including his only nomination for Best Picture.
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