期刊名称：E-Fabulations : e-Journal of Children's Literature
电子版ISSN：1646-8880
出版年度：2007
卷号：01
出版社：Universidade do Porto
摘要：Peter Pan was first imagined as a film by Walt Disney after he saw, in 1913, J. M. Barrie’s play. He tried to buy the rights of the adaptation in 1935 and finally purchased them four years later from the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, to which they had been legated by the Scottish novelist and playwright. The project made its appearance in 1953, after the golden period of the Walt Disney studios: the 40s. In fact, the end of the 30s and the beginning of the 40s had seen a succession of masterpieces, amongst which Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Bambi, directed in 1942. After the baby-elephant blockbuster, the Walt Disney Studios began to suffer from World War II consequences, and entered a barren period for feature films. These years were characterised by the massive production of short works and the company only started to regain its prestige after the end of the conflict. Its main post-war projects were 1950’s Cinderella and the next year’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece Alice in Wonderland. Catastrophic commercial results of the latter showed that it was necessary to respect the original text and, at the same time, create a proper identity. Peter Pan was the next project: it was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske and it was the last Disney film to be distributed by RKO Pictures6
