Based on a short story of the same name by James Street, it was released by Buena Vista Distribution. It is the last'One Boy and his Animal' themed film made by Disney, as this subgenre eventually grew out of fashion. The 1972 film is a remake of a 1940 film starring Billy Lee as Lonnie.
PAGES: 133, DATE: November 1971, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 3620, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Bernard McEveety, RUNTIME: 1hr, 32 mins, 25 secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions. CONDITION: Title page wear in the form of foxing, discoloration, corner and edge wear, small crimps and creases. Slight foxing to internal pages as well as corner and edge wear and slight crimp or crease makes here and there.
American Western film starring Stuart Whitman, Frank Aletter, Lonny Chapman, Douglas Fowley, Harry Carey Jr. PAGES: 92, DATE: September 1972, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 3557, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Jerome Courtland, RUNTIME: 1hr, 26 mins, 56 secs. Napoleon is an 11 year old boy being brought up in the Rocky Mountains by his grandfather. Napoleon has befriended a circus clown, and when the clown has to return to Europe, Napoleon agrees to look after the clown's ageing lion.
Contrary to popular belief he's a gentle creature, so boy and animal form a friendship. However, Napoleon's world is turned upside down when his grandfather dies. PAGES: 120, DATE: April 1972, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 3598, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Bernard McEveety, RUNTIME: 1hr, 31 mins, 20 secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions. Annabel Andrews (Jodie Foster) and her mother, Ellen (Barbara Harris), don't always see eye to eye. After a particularly frustrating argument on Friday the 13th, the two simultaneously wish they could switch places -- and suddenly their wish is granted.
The two learn a lot about themselves and their relationship in the process. PAGES: 110, DATE: December 1976, PRODUCED BY: Ron Miller, DIRECTED BY: Gary Nelson, RUNTIME: 1hr, 38mins, 11secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions, PRODUCTION NO: 0151. CONDITION: Cover wear, top right staining, foxing, rust on metal bind. Slight page wear - corner wear - edge wear. Small crimps or creases may be found on isolated pages.
American comedy film and a sequel to The Shaggy Dog (1959) produced by Walt Disney Productions. As with the first film in the series, it takes some inspiration from the Felix Salten novel, The Hound of Florence. PAGES: 105, DATE: November 1976, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 0155, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Robert Stevenson (last film directed), RUNTIME: 1 hour, 31 mins, 45 secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions. CONDITION: Title page wear in the form of foxing, discoloration (severe on back and portions of front), corner and edge wear, small crimps and creases. Slight foxing to internal pages as well as discoloration apparent on pages towards the back, corner and edge wear and slight crimp or crease makes here and there.
[1977 A Tale of Two Critters]. A Tale of Two Critters is an American adventure documentary film produced by Walt Disney Productions, written and directed by Jack Speirs and released theatrically by Buena Vista Distribution on June 20, 1977. PAGES: 39, DATE: May 1977, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 3795, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Jack Spiers, RUNTIME: 47 mins, 37 secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions. CONDITION: Title page wear in the form of foxing, discoloration (blue pen mark on front), corner and edge wear, small crimps and creases. When an orphan girl is kidnapped no-one seems to care, except a secret worldwide association of mice called The Rescue Aid Society: `The Rescuers'.
Bernard and Bianca, two members of The Rescuers, set out on a perilous journey to find Penny, with the help of an airsick albatross called Orville, and Evinrude, the determined dragonfly. They pit their wits against gem-grabbing kidnapper Madame Medusa. PAGES: 79, DATE: May 1977, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 2519, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, Art Stevens, RUNTIME: 1hr, 16min, 59 sec, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions. Slight foxing to internal pages. Title page is ripped free from its holes but remains fairly in place wedged the way I have it.Thriller drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges. The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on September 16, 1979 escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era when emigration to West Germany was strictly prohibited by the East German government. It was the final theatrical film directed by Delbert Mann, and the last in which Kay Walsh appeared before retiring. PAGES: 89, DATE: December of 1981, PRODUCED BY: Tom Leetch, DIRECTED BY: Delbert Mann, RUNTIME: 1hr, 47mins, 8secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions, PRODUCTION NO: 0206.
CONDITION: Cover wear in the form stains, yellowing, discoloration. Rust on the metal bind. Page crimps or corner crimps/creases. [1981 The Watcher in the Woods]. Supernatural horror film starring Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, and David McCallum. Based on the 1976 novel by Florence Engel Randall, the film tells the story of a teenage girl and her little sister who become encompassed in a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home in the English countryside. PAGES: 71, DATE: July 1981, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 3874, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY: John Hough & Vincent McEveety, RUNTIME: 1hr, 23mins, 16secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions.CONDITION: Title page wear in the form of foxing, discoloration, cover has circular rust stains as well as light blue staining, corner and edge wear, small crimps and creases. Slight foxing to internal pages as well as discoloration apparent on pages, corner and edge wear and slight crimps or creases here and there.
Research scientist Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) is sent to the desolate Canadian tundra to find out whether the local wolf population is responsible for decimating Canada's caribou herds. Helped by Ootek (Zachary Ittimangnaq), a local Inuit native, Farley manages to establish an observation post and, while braving the harsh climate, begins to study a family of wolves, as well as the caribou.
He eventually determines that the greatest danger to the caribou doesn't move on four legs. PAGES: 65, DATE: September 1983, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney, DIRECTED BY:, RUNTIME: 1hr, 45mins, 18secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Pictures, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 0210, INCLUDES: Mailing envelope from Buena Vista. CONDITION: Slight yellowing and discoloration, rust on metal clasps. An aspiring mystery writer (Margot Kidder) hooks up with a real, live CIA agent (Robert Hays) during a two-week stay in Malta. PAGES: 80, DATE: March of 1983, PRODUCED BY: Walt Disney Productions, DIRECTED BY: Michael Tuchner, RUNTIME: 1hr, 31mins, 49secs, COPYRIGHTED: Walt Disney Productions, PRODUCTION NUMBER: 0242.
ALL SCRIPTS MEASURE: 8.75" x 14". ALL SCRIPTS FRONT COVER TITLE PAGES AND BACK COVER PAGES ARE THICK (double weight, almost like card stock).
ALL SCRIPTS ARE CUTTING CONTINUITY'S WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF ACTION IN THE SCENES AS WELL AS SOUND EFFECTS, ACCENTS, EMOTIONS (IN SOME INSTANCES) & THEIR RESPECTIVE LINES. WHEN YOU READ THESE SCRIPTS YOU CAN ACTUALLY VISUALIZE AND HAVE A FEELING OF BEING IMMERSED IN THE MOVIE ITSELF! ALL SCRIPTS ARE ORIGINAL Printed date on title/cover page directly by Walt Disney / Buena Vista. These are NOT copies or reproductions. Scripts have been preserved inside of filing cabinets for more than 50 years (in some cases).
I have provided images of the filing cabinets, in my possession - that I personally own and have these stored in (inside my office, smoke free, temperature controlled, no animals). More information on where these scripts came from and how I came to own them can be found detailed at length further below. WATCHER IN THE WOODS had its premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on April 17, 1980, but was pulled from release after only ten days, and future screenings were canceled by the studio because of an overwhelming negative response from critics and audiences.
Several changes were made thereafter, including the excision of a pre-credits sequence, and they even re-filmed an entirely new ending, which was directed by Vincent McEveety without Hough's involvement. Disney re-released the revised cut of the film on October 9, 1981 and that is what makes this script so valuable is that it is for the revised and final ending scene(s). STORY DEPARTMENT: The very end of this script contains an unusual Synopsis of WATCHER IN THE WOODS by Disney's Story Department dated 7/9/81 and it spans 2 pages. CREDITS: Also has revised credits which were revised in England at the end dated 5-29-81.
MY SCRIPTS & THEIR HISTORY. These scripts are EXTREMELY rare (as are the vast majority on my account). Rarer than many release or post scripts because not only is this script original, but it was most likely utilized during the course of production of the film itself and handled by an executive, a director or someone in the production studio (lighting specialists, etc) - and they surface rarely as a result. In the case of continuities vs.
At its peak, fourteen national studios had offices in the building. Cleveland was also home to over a dozen sponsored film studios, including CINECRAFT PRODUCTIONS (established in 1939), ESCAR (1942), GENERAL PICTURES CORP. (1957), and TRI-STATE MOTION PICTURES (1926). Other film studios, with their main offices in other cities, also had sales offices in Cleveland. These included Wilding Studios out of Chicago, the Jam Handy Organization out of Detroit, Roland Reed Productions, Jerry Fairbanks, Inc.And Riviera Productions out of Los Angeles. He was a serial collector in many facets. If you browse my items it'll really shed light into the legitimacy of this listing. A MODERN RECORD: In March of 2024 MegaTraders set a world record for the most valuable set (8) of original lobby cards for a "modern" cartoon fantasy film in the past decade.
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I may decide to next day deliver this depending on several factors, such as final sale price and your location. Signature confirmation for this collection is required. Scripts will be insured for full dollar amount paid. Thank you for taking the time to read my lengthy listing if you've made it this far!