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The Sword in the Stone Overview:

The Sword in the Stone (1963) was a Animation - Adventure Film directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and produced by Walt Disney.

Academy Awards 1963 --- Ceremony Number 36 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringGeorge BrunsNominated
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The Sword in the Stone BlogHub Articles:

The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 16, 2019 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Back in the days shortly after the death of Unther Pendragon, King of England, there appeared in London a magic sword protruding upright from the center of an anvil. It bears an inscription proclaiming that whosoever shall remove the sword from the stone would be crowned the new king of England. ... Read full article

A Espada era a Lei / The Sword in the Stone (1963)

By Lê on Jun 2, 2016 From Critica Retro

A Espada era a Lei / The Sword in the Stone (1963) É ótimo ver animações quando se é criança, mas é uma experiência completamente diferente (e reveladora) revisitá-las quando você é adulto. Embora minha memória não seja meu melhor atributo, lembro-me de ter visto “A Espada ... Read full article

The Sword in the Stone review

By Joey on May 2, 2014 From Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest

The Sword in the Stone review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest The Sword in the Stone details the early relationship between Arthur and Merlin – with a specific emphasis on the latter’s efforts at preparing the former for his rule as England’s King. The Sword ... Read full article

The Sword in the Stone review

By Joey on May 2, 2014 From Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest

The Sword in the Stone review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest The Sword in the Stone details the early relationship between Arthur and Merlin – with a specific emphasis on the latter’s efforts at preparing the former for his rule as England’s King. The Sword ... Read full article

March to Disney: The Sword in the Stone

By Bernardo Villela on Mar 10, 2014 From The Movie Rat

Introduction Last year to coincide with a trip to Walt Disney World in March, I decided to have a month-long focus on Disney fare. Their vaults are vast and varied enough such that this is a theme that could recur annually. Below you will find links to the inaugural posts written for the theme. The... Read full article

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The Sword in the Stone Quotes:

Sir Ector: Here's to the tournament, and here's to Kay, and here's to the new King of all England!
[Sir Ector and Kay rush down after the Maid to see plates washing by themselves, and brooms and mops sweeping the floor by Merlin's magic while he and Wart have sneaked off]
Sir Ector: [thundering the words] GADZUKES! BLACK MAGIC OF THE WORST KIND!
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The Sword in the Stone Facts
Arthur was voiced by three different boys - Rickie Sorensen, Richard Reitherman and Robert Reitherman. The changes in voice are very noticeable in the film because of the way Arthur's voice keeps going from broken to unbroken, sometimes in the same scene. One of the easiest noticed is in the last scene in the throne room when Arthur asks in his "changed voice", "Oh, Archimedes, I wish Merlin was here!" Then, the camera cuts farther back and Arthur shouts in his "unchanged voice," "Merlin! Merlin!"
Two songs written for the film but scrapped before production began were "The Blue Oak Tree" and "The Magic Key". The latter was to be Merlin's lecture to Arthur about the value of an education. It was replaced with the more amusing "Higitus Figitus".
The first Disney animated feature with songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
Although Walt Disney never knew it, he himself was character designer Bill Peet's model for Merlin. Peet saw them both as argumentative, cantankerous, playful and very intelligent. Peet also gave Merlin Walt's nose.
This was the first Disney animated feature made under a single director. Previous features were directed either by three or four directors, or by a team of sequence directors under a supervising director. The man hired for the job was veteran animator Wolfgang Reitherman (one of the fabled Nine Old Men), who would direct all of the Disney features up until the 1980's.
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