BUENA VISTA, brand new distribution arm of Walt Disney Productions, was born into the motion picture industry not with a long list of present and future productions to sell, but with a very select inventory. On the program at present are five pictures, only one with a definite release date, but those five typify the culmination of Disney art. The first, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," to open at Christmas time, is the imaginative depiction of Jules Verne's masterpiece of imagination. All live action, it stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas. After that will be "Lady and the Tramp," feature length cartoon which reverses the previous formula of telling a classic story by telling in cartoon form an original Disney classic story. Following will be "The African Lion," wherein the True-Life Adventure technique shows the result of three years of painstaking photography in the African jungle, and "The Littlest Outlaw," a live action feature about a boy and a horse. Still further in the future will be ‘Sleeping Beauty," feature cartoon of the classic in the tradition of "Snow White" and "Alice in Wonderland."
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