Peter Pan (1953)
The basis of another Fantasyland classic ride, today's movie is Peter Pan. The Movie: Peter Pan is the 14th film in the Disney Animated Canon and one of the most revered of Disney's Silver Age. The Silver Age movies are the films of the 1950s and 60s in which Disney returned to the standards of their pre-WWII movies up through the death of Walt Disney. Peter Pan was also the last film worked on by all nine of Disney's "Nine Old Men," the animation pioneers who were the heart of Disney animation. Peter Pan is based on the 1904 play by British author J.M. Barrie (and the subsequent 1911 novelization). The title character is the "boy who wouldn't grow up." He lives in Neverland with the fairy Tinker Bell and his pack of Lost Boys, while facing off with the band of pirates led by Captain Hook and his first mate Mr. Smee. The story begins with the Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, who live in the nursery, where Wendy tells the stor...