The Story Before the Movie student blog from Magic of the Mouse Radio exploring the books, legends, fairy tales, history, and original stories that inspired Disney movies.

Almost every Disney film began as somebody else’s story — a fairy tale, a novel or a legend told long before the studio existed. Each post here sets the two side by side: what the original story said, what the movie changed, and which one the writer liked better.

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