Welcome, Welcome, Welcome! to the magical world of story telling. On topic today is the well loved CLASSIC 'Lady and the Tramp' by Disney. Oh bless them. They continue to inspire generations after generations. The realistic style of there animation is beliveable and in turn captivating. Joyfully we relate to there lovable characters and find ourselfs exscaping into there world of imagination.
How did Disney get his idea for 'Lady and the Tramp'? Who could ever really know. Many people around Walt remember the time he had an 'IDEAS' man working at his studio by the name of Joe Grant. This was during the late 1930's at Disney studios when Walt became inspired by a drawing Joe had sketched of his family pet, a spring a spanual. Some kind of cute dog. It is believed that Walt was invited to dinner by Joe and his wife. That night when Walt viewed the drawing the ideas for 'Lady and the Tramp' were born.
Work began on the concept and by 1943 Walt viewed the storyboard for the first time. He didn't like it. The problem layed with Lady. She was too nice. The mean 'Mother-in-law' with the crazy cats and the evil rate were not enough of a catalist for the making of a great strong story.
While the show had been put back on the shelf, Disney came across an artical in the Cosmopolitian magazine about a sinical dog named Dan- 'Happy Dan the sinical dog'. From the artical Walt had the idea of combining a 'sinical dog' with a 'too nice' lady dog. A great IDEA was born.
There may be many takes on how Walt concieved the idea but my favorate story was about the gift he gave his wife. Wraped up in a hat box was a puppy. Could this of been the birth of his original idea, may it simply be an evolutionary step for his idea or did it really happen at all? Retorical questions are always fun for coming up with new ideas.
The time had rolled by and Disney studios had servived the budget cuts and down scales impossed by the global confict of WWII. It was time to start making feature films once again. It was now 1953 and a new animator was helping Walt with 'Lady and the Tramp'. His name was Ward Greene. Joe Grant had left the studio and his initial contribution had been cut from the film. The evolving IDEA of a love story between two different characters from two different world became the main theme for the film.
This beautiful film entered the world in 1955. It was released to theaters on June 22. As a gratefull fane of Disney's works I would like to say that however this move concept was created it has become a gift to the world for all to enjoy.
Dream BIG!
Jac
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