Screenwriter

Bill Peet

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13:00: average
39 min: in total

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Alice in Wonderland

Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske · 1951

A bored young girl follows a white rabbit down a hole into a nonsensical kingdom ruled by a short-tempered Queen of Hearts, encountering a parade of self-absorbed creatures along the way. Disney first considered adapting Lewis Carroll's books in the early 1930s and spent nearly two decades discarding drafts — a live-action hybrid with Mary Pickford, a literal script judged too grotesque, a version written by Aldous Huxley — before settling on the fully animated, more comic take released in 1951 to a muted box office and mixed reviews that only later warmed.

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman · 1961

Two London Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, cross the country to rescue their kidnapped puppies from the fur-obsessed socialite Cruella de Vil, picking up 84 more stolen Dalmatians along the way. Adapted from Dodie Smith's novel by Bill Peet, the only writer credited on the finished script, the film used a new Xerox transfer process to keep costs down after Sleeping Beauty's expensive failure had studio executives openly discussing whether animation was worth continuing at all — and the film's box-office success settled that question decisively.

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Peter Pan

Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske · 1953

Wendy Darling and her brothers follow Peter Pan to Never Land to escape growing up, then have to help him outwit Captain Hook once they're there. Disney bought the animation rights from Paramount in 1938 and began preliminary work almost immediately, only for the Second World War to divert the studio into government propaganda work for years; production finally resumed after 1945 and the finished film, made for $4 million, became a solid commercial success while carrying a depiction of its Native American characters that has drawn deserved criticism since.