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Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt (possibly part Great Dane) named Tramp who lives on the streets. Once of the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love.

The film was based loosely on two previous works, the 1937 book Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene about a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks, and a story line worked on for several years by Disney story man Joe Grant about a Cocker Spaniel named Lady, based on his own pet. Greene later wrote a novelization of the film, which was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story.

This film begat a spinoff comic titled Scamp, named after one of Lady and Tramp's puppies. Scamp also starred in a direct-to-video sequel in 2002 titled Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure.

Plot Synopsis

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Lady's early days

Lady is a gift from Jim Dear to his wife Darling one Christmas. She quickly becomes the centre of their attention and is pampered with many presents. When Lady is six months old, she has to have a licence and is able to leave Jim Dear and Darling's house. She makes friends with two dogs living nearby, Jock and Trusty. A short time afterwards, she becomes friends with another dog—a stray dog called Tramp.

The baby and Aunt Sarah

Darling then has a baby and Lady feels that Jim Dear and Darling are not giving her as much attention as before. She is mystified by this but soon grows to like the new baby boy. Soon after the baby is born, Jim Dear and Darling go away for a few days and Aunt Sarah comes to the house to look after the baby. Aunt Sarah, who is not fond of dogs, has two Siamese cats—Si and Am—who run wild in the house. Lady manages to keep the goldfish and canary safe from harm, but is unable to prevent the two cats from knocking over furniture and tearing the curtains. But she begins to bark when the two cats go up the stairs to see the baby. Lady scares Si and Am and they pretend to have been hurt, which causes Aunt Sarah to come downstairs. Aunt Sarah then takes Lady to a pet shop to have her fitted with a muzzle, but Lady runs away while the shopkeeper is trying to fit her with a muzzle.

Tramp

Lady comes face to face with a group of vicious dogs on the other side of town, but Tramp arrives on the scene and rescues Lady. Tramp then takes Lady around the town, introducing her to a few of his friends, including a beaver who removes Lady's muzzle. Tramp then takes Lady to Tony's Italian Restaurant, where Tony the cook prepares them a special spaghetti meal. They sleep for the night in a nearby park. The next morning, they chase chickens around a chicken pen, and narrowly escape being shot by the owner of the chicken house. Lady is captured by the dog catcher and taken to the dog pound, where she does not stay for long. Because she has a name tag, she is soon identified and taken home—but Aunt Sarah chains her to a kennel in the garden.

Back home

Jock and Trusty both come to see Lady, but she is not in the mood for visitors. And when Tramp comes, she is angry with him for getting her locked up in the pound, and tells him she does not want to see him again. Just as Tramp is leaving, a rat appears in the garden and Lady begins to bark. She barks so loud that Aunt Sarah wakes up and tells her to stop barking. Then Tramp re-appears and Lady tells him that the rat has gone into the baby's room. Tramp enters the house and soon comes face to face with the rat. He chases the rat all around the bedroom. Just as the fight is reaching its climax, Lady comes in. Tramp eventually manages to kill the rat but in the process tips over the baby's cot, and Aunt Sarah is awakened by the baby crying.

Race against time

Aunt Sarah calls the dog pound and demands that the dog catcher come to collect Tramp. She tries to convince him to destroy Tramp; meanwhile, Lady is locked in the cellar. Just as the dog catcher is collecting Tramp, Jim Dear and Darling return. They then unlock the cellar door and release Lady, despite Aunt Sarah's fears that Lady would harm the baby. Lady begins barking frantically and runs upstairs. Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear and Darling all follow her. They see the dead rat and everyone knows that Lady and Tramp had entered the house to catch the rat. Jock and Trusty are both waiting outside the house and hear about the rat. They decide to go after the dog catcher's wagon and finally sniff its scent, and run towards the wagon while it is just yards away from the dog pound. They confront the horses which are pulling the wagon and it topples over into a tree. Several passers-by are helping the driver and trying to release the horses when a taxi pulls up and Jim Dear and Lady get out. Tramp is released from the wagon, while Trusty is trapped under the wheel. Jock is convinced Trusty is dead and he begins to cry.

Christmas

At Christmastime, Lady gives birth to her and Tramp's four puppies ,and they are all photographed together with the baby. Just then, Jock and Trusty arrive— it turns out Trusty survived the accident with an injured leg. "Uncle Trusty" then starts telling the puppies about his good old friend "Old Reliable", and the film ends.


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"Uncle Trusty" then starts telling the puppies about his good old friend "Old Reliable", and the film ends. In 2002 the Dutch-speaking author Toon Tellegen published Brieven aan Doornroosje (http://www.vpro.nl/boeken/index.shtml?3141869+5025064+6677541#public14054658) ("Letters to Sleeping Beauty"), leading, in 2005, to a year-long daily series of such letters (http://www.brievenaandoornroosje.be/web/doornroosje/web/home.asp), imagined to be written by the prince making his quest to Sleeping Beauty's castle, being presented at the Flemish classical radio station (Klara (http://www.klara.be/)), every morning just before 7 h opening the day program. Just then, Jock and Trusty arrive— it turns out Trusty survived the accident with an injured leg. The story of the sleeping beauty was loosely the basis for the erotic novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice. At Christmastime, Lady gives birth to her and Tramp's four puppies ,and they are all photographed together with the baby. It is noteworthy that the King and Queen are not included in this analogue of a burial, but retire, while the protective spectral thorn forest immediately grows up to protect the castle and its occupants, as effective as a tumulus. Jock is convinced Trusty is dead and he begins to cry. (See grave goods).

Tramp is released from the wagon, while Trusty is trapped under the wheel. The Princess's sleeping attendants, waiting to accompany her when she wakes in the other world, even to the spit-boys in the kitchens and her pet dog, expresses one of the most ancient themes in ritual burial practices, though Perrault was probably unaware of the Egyptian burials, and certainly unaware of the royal tombs of Queen Puabi of the Third Dynasty of Ur, the courtiers that accompanied early emperors of China in the tomb, the horses that accompanied the noble riders in the kurgans of Scythian Pasyryk. Several passers-by are helping the driver and trying to release the horses when a taxi pulls up and Jim Dear and Lady get out. Freudian psychologists, encouraged by Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment, have found rich materials to analyze in Sleeping Beauty as a case history of incest and latent sexuality and a prescription for the passive socializaion of those young women who were not destined for work. They confront the horses which are pulling the wagon and it topples over into a tree. This can be compared with the gifts Moll Flanders apparently possessed, in the book with the same name that appeared precisely a quarter of a century after Perrault's Sleeping Beauty (1722). Jock and Trusty are both waiting outside the house and hear about the rat. They decide to go after the dog catcher's wagon and finally sniff its scent, and run towards the wagon while it is just yards away from the dog pound. More modern versions of the tale might include, apart from Intelligence, Courage and Independence as fairy gifts.

They see the dead rat and everyone knows that Lady and Tramp had entered the house to catch the rat. No such gift was however offered in Perrault's version: not appropriate in 1697, when a good ear for playing music appeared more essential. Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear and Darling all follow her. One of the fairy gifts is sometimes misremebered as Intelligence. Lady begins barking frantically and runs upstairs. See also Weaving (mythology). They then unlock the cellar door and release Lady, despite Aunt Sarah's fears that Lady would harm the baby. Among familiar themes and elements in Perrault's tale: the Wished-for Child (see Saint Anne, and Rapunzel); the Accursed Gift (see Nessus with Deianira); the Inevitable Fate; the Spinner (see Moirae, Norns); the Heroic Quest; the Ogre Stepmother; the Substituted Victim (see Isaac, Zeus with Cronos, Iphigeneia).

Just as the dog catcher is collecting Tramp, Jim Dear and Darling return. Earlier influences come from the story of the sleeping Brynhild in the Volsunga saga and the tribulations of saintly female martyrs in early Christian hagiography conventions. She tries to convince him to destroy Tramp; meanwhile, Lady is locked in the cellar. There are earlier elements that contributed to the tale, in the medieval courtly romance Perceforest (published in 1528), in which a princess named Zellandine falls into an enchanted sleep and is raped by a wandering prince, resulting in the birth of their child. Aunt Sarah calls the dog pound and demands that the dog catcher come to collect Tramp. Perrault's is an aristocratic tale told for a high-bourgeois audience, inculcating female patience and passivity. Tramp eventually manages to kill the rat but in the process tips over the baby's cot, and Aunt Sarah is awakened by the baby crying. Basile's was an adult tale told by an aristocrat for aristocrats, emphasizing concerns such as marital fidelity and inheritance.

Just as the fight is reaching its climax, Lady comes in. Shared themes of violence, rape, rivalry and cannibalism appear in the second parts. He chases the rat all around the bedroom. Perrault so transformed the tale of a sleeping beauty, "Sole, Luna, e Talia" in Giambattista Basile's collection of tales, Il Pentamerone, that she is scarcely recognizable in the first part of the tale, the only part that is still current. Tramp enters the house and soon comes face to face with the rat. Three of Disney's theme parks feature castles named after Sleeping Beauty. Then Tramp re-appears and Lady tells him that the rat has gone into the baby's room. Since then, the film has gained a following, and is today hailed as one of the best animated features ever made, thanks to its stylized designs by painter Eyvind Earle, its lush music score (adapted from Tchaikovsky's ballet), and its large-format widescreen and stereophonic sound presentation.

She barks so loud that Aunt Sarah wakes up and tells her to stop barking. When it was first released, Sleeping Beauty returned only half the invested sum of six million US dollars, nearly bankrupting the Disney studio. Just as Tramp is leaving, a rat appears in the garden and Lady begins to bark. In the film Aurora's father is named Stephan and Philip's father is named Hubert. And when Tramp comes, she is angry with him for getting her locked up in the pound, and tells him she does not want to see him again. The witch was aptly named Maleficent ("Evil-doer"). Jock and Trusty both come to see Lady, but she is not in the mood for visitors. Sleeping Beauty was "Princess Aurora" as in the Tchaikovsky ballet; the prince was given the only princely name familiar to Americans in the 1950s: "Prince Philip", named after Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Because she has a name tag, she is soon identified and taken home—but Aunt Sarah chains her to a kennel in the garden. The script was adapted from the story of Charles Perrault by Erdman Penner, with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. Lady is captured by the dog catcher and taken to the dog pound, where she does not stay for long. The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi. The next morning, they chase chickens around a chicken pen, and narrowly escape being shot by the owner of the chicken house. It was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, and the first one to be shot in Super Technirama 70, one of many large-format 70mm film processes (only one more animated film, The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 70). They sleep for the night in a nearby park. The Walt Disney Productions animated feature Sleeping Beauty was released on January 29, 1959 by Buena Vista Distribution, after spending nearly the entire decade of the 1950s in production.

Tramp then takes Lady to Tony's Italian Restaurant, where Tony the cook prepares them a special spaghetti meal. Mimed and danced versions of the ballet survived in the distinctly British genre of pantomime, with Carabosse, the evil fairy, a famous travesti role. Tramp then takes Lady around the town, introducing her to a few of his friends, including a beaver who removes Lady's muzzle. Choreographer George Balanchine made his stage debut as a gilded Cupid sitting on a gilded cage, in the last act divertissements. Lady comes face to face with a group of vicious dogs on the other side of town, but Tramp arrives on the scene and rescues Lady. Diaghilev staged the ballet himself in 1921 in London with the Ballets Russes. Aunt Sarah then takes Lady to a pet shop to have her fitted with a muzzle, but Lady runs away while the shopkeeper is trying to fit her with a muzzle. Sleeping Beauty was the first ballet that impresario Sergei Diaghilev ever saw, he later recorded in his memoirs, and also the first that ballerinas Anna Pavlova and Galina Ulanova ever saw, and the ballet that introduced the Russian dancer Rudolph Nureyev to European audiences.

Lady scares Si and Am and they pretend to have been hurt, which causes Aunt Sarah to come downstairs. Besides being Tchaikovsky's first major success in ballet composition, it set a new standard for what is now called "Classical Ballet", and remained one of the all time favourites in the whole of the ballet repertoire. But she begins to bark when the two cats go up the stairs to see the baby. The ballet, with Tchaikovsky's music (his Opus 66) and choreography by Marius Petipa, was premiered in the Saint Petersburg Maryinsky Theatre on January 24, 1890. Lady manages to keep the goldfish and canary safe from harm, but is unable to prevent the two cats from knocking over furniture and tearing the curtains. Although Tchaikovsky was maybe not all that eager to compose a new ballet (remembering that the reception of his Swan Lake ballet music, staged eleven seasons earlier, had only been lukewarm), he set to work with Vsevolovsky's scenario. Aunt Sarah, who is not fond of dogs, has two Siamese cats—Si and Am—who run wild in the house. When Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the Director of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, wrote to Tchaikovsky on May 25, 1888, suggesting a ballet based on Perrault's tale, he also cut the violent second half, climaxed the action with the Awakening Kiss, and followed with a conventional festive last act, a series of bravura variations.

Soon after the baby is born, Jim Dear and Darling go away for a few days and Aunt Sarah comes to the house to look after the baby. Though Hérold popularized his piece with a piano Rondo brilliant based on themes from the music, he was not successful in getting the ballet staged again. She is mystified by this but soon grows to like the new baby boy. Before Tchaikovsky's version, several ballet productions were based on the "sleeping beauty" theme, amongst which one from Eugène Scribe: in the winter of 1828–1829, the French playwright furnished a four-act mimed scenario as a basis for Aumer's choreography of a four-act ballet-pantomime La Belle au bois dormant. Scribe wisely omitted the violence of the second part of Perrault's tale for the ballet, which was set by Hérold and first staged at the Académie Royale, Paris, April 27, 1829. Darling then has a baby and Lady feels that Jim Dear and Darling are not giving her as much attention as before. ("Lindoro" was the name assumed by the amorous Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville.). A short time afterwards, she becomes friends with another dog—a stray dog called Tramp. Composer Michele Carafa's Belle au Bois Dormant, with the famous tenor Adolphe Nourrit—more famous for his late Rossini and early Meyerbeer roles—creating the role of the Prince Lindor, opened March 2, 1825, at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris.

She makes friends with two dogs living nearby, Jock and Trusty. The King returned in the nick of time and the Ogress, being discovered, threw herself into the pit she had prepared and was consumed, and everyone else lived happily ever after. When Lady is six months old, she has to have a licence and is able to leave Jim Dear and Darling's house. There was a tearful secret reunion in the cook's little house, while the Ogre Queen was satisfied with a hind prepared with sauce Robert. Soon she discovered the trick and prepared a tub in the courtyard filled with vipers and other noxious creatures. She quickly becomes the centre of their attention and is pampered with many presents. When the Ogre Queen demanded that he serve up the Princess Queen, she offered her throat to be slit, so that she might join the children she imagined were dead. Lady is a gift from Jim Dear to his wife Darling one Christmas. The Ogre Queen sent the Princess Queen and the children to a house secluded in the woods, and directed her cook there to prepare the boy for her dinner, with a sauce Robert. The humane cook substituted a lamb, which satisfied the Ogre Queen, who demanded the girl, but was satisfied with a kid prepared in the same excellent sauce.

Scamp also starred in a direct-to-video sequel in 2002 titled Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. Once he had acceded to the throne, he brought the Princess and the children to his capital, which he then left in the regency of the Queen Mother, while he went to make war on his neighbor the Emperor Contalabutte, ("Count of The Mount"). This film begat a spinoff comic titled Scamp, named after one of Lady and Tramp's puppies. Secretly wed by the reawakened Royal almoner, the Prince continued to visit the Princess, who bore him two children, L'Aurore and Le Jour, which he kept secret from the Queen his mother, who was of an Ogre lineage. Greene later wrote a novelization of the film, which was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story. and, in modern versions, they all lived happily ever after. The film was based loosely on two previous works, the 1937 book Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene about a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks, and a story line worked on for several years by Disney story man Joe Grant about a Cocker Spaniel named Lady, based on his own pet. He kissed the princess, everyone in the castle woke to continue where they had left off..

Once of the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love. Eventually, a prince arrived, and, hearing the story of the enchantment, braved the wood, which parted at his approach, and entered the castle. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt (possibly part Great Dane) named Tramp who lives on the streets. The good fairy returned and put everyone in the castle to sleep. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. The wicked fairy's curse was fulfilled. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. The Princess asked to try the unfamiliar task and the inevitable happened.

Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. When the princess was fifteen or sixteen she chanced to come upon an old woman in a tower of the castle, who was spinning. The king forbade spinning on distaff or spindle, or the possession of one, upon pain of death, throughout the kingdom, but all in vain. A good fairy, though unable to reverse the spell, altered its effect so that the princess, instead of dying, would fall asleep for a hundred years, until awakened by the kiss of a prince's son. However, a wicked fairy who had been overlooked placed the princess under an enchantment as her gift, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die.

At the christening of a long-wished-for princess, fairies invited as godmothers offered gifts of beauty, wit, grace, and musical talents. The basic elements of Perrault's narrative are in two parts. More than many fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty partakes of many deep European myths, both pagan and Christian. Since Tolkien's generation, however, the most familiar Sleeping Beauty has become the Walt Disney animated film (1959), which draws as much from the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet (Saint Petersburg, 1890) as from Perrault.

Tolkien noted that Perrault's cultural presence is so pervasive that, when asked to name a fairy tale, most people will cite one of the eight stories in Perrault's collection. R. R. Professor J.

39). Sleeping Beauty ("La Belle aux bois dormant") is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose Tales"). Elements of the story are contained in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (published 1634), in the tale Sun, Moon and Talia (ch.