Peter Pan 1953

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Call Number: Youth-DVD Disney Peter
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
An adaptation of the play "Peter Pan" by Sir James M. Barrie.
"Disney's FastPlay"--Container.
DVD special features: Introduction by Diane Disney Miller; Tinker Bell : a fairy's tale.
Narrator, Tom Conway ; voices, Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conreid, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, Candy Candido.
Wendy and her brothers embark on fantastic adventures with the hero of their bedtime stories, Peter Pan! With faith, trust and Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter teaches them how to fly and leads them to the "second star to the right" and beyond, to Never Land!
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix (English), Dolby digital 5.1 (French and Spanish).
Contents: Peter Pan.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Peter Pan submitted by SBNB on July 12, 2015, 2:51pm This is a classic Disney movie. I used to love it.

Peter Pan notes for parents submitted by schriste on July 28, 2015, 8:00pm If you haven't seen this film in a while, you might remember the basics: Peter Pan brings the Darling children--Wendy, John and Michael--to Never-Never Land, where no one grows up. Peter wants Wendy to tell stories and to be the mother the Lost Boys lack. However magical the flight there, the Darling children soon discover Never-Never Land may be a place of eternal childhood but it includes some serious problems, most notably Captain Hook's obsession for capturing Peter. If you're planning to watch this with your children, you need to be prepared to discuss the racist portrayal of the "Indians" who are "savages" and caricatured as such. Parents of young girls may also note that none of the female inhabitants of Neverland welcome Wendy--Tinkerbell tries to kill her as do the mermaids of Mermaid Lagoon out of jealousy that someone else has caught the interest of Peter Pan. (And Tinkerbell herself has a scene early in the movie where she looks in a mirror and frowns about the size of her posterior. She's a pixie with the body of a Barbie doll and still...!) Smee speaks frequently of getting back to regular pirating and of slitting throats. Beyond these aspects which likely caused no qualms in 1953, for sensitive kids there are the usual cartoon-y "bad guys" and some scary situations, made mostly lighter by Peter Pan himself, who sees it all as play. As with any Disney film, you can expect some scenes of great animated beauty, particularly the flight to and from Never-Never Land. In short, my children enjoyed the adventure story of the film and several of the scenes which concerned me didn't register with them. While they'd like to see it again I'm in no particular hurry for a second showing.

Classis submitted by AprilCDB on July 27, 2016, 1:05pm Classic movie. My son is loving it.

Classic Disney submitted by purchasingqueen on August 31, 2016, 9:19pm Classic about a boy who won't grow up.

Truly a Classic submitted by majean on August 17, 2018, 7:43pm Definitely one of Disney's classics!

Classic submitted by Bigal2212 on August 22, 2018, 12:39pm A classic film.

Classic submitted by TLW1998 on June 24, 2022, 12:31am I love Peter Pan. This is a great Disney movie, even for little kids.