Erdman PennerFilmography

Occupation:
Screenwriter

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

    Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

    1959

  • Disneyland: Adventures in Fantasy

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Sterling Holloway

    Synopsis: Disneyland host Walt Disney endeavors to demonstrate how inanimate objects can become "human", with the attendant full range of emotions and problems, in the wonderful world of animation. To demonstrate, Walt has three otherwise non-living objects narrate a series of cartoon segments, lifted from Read More

    1957

  • Disneyland: All About Magic

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Hans Conried

    Synopsis: This episode of Disneyland is set in the basement of the Disney studio, storehouse for many a fantastic and phantasmagoric prop. Walt Disney turns the hosting duties over to the Spirit of the Mirror, originally seen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and here played by the ineluctable Hans Read More

    1957

  • Disneyland: Disneyland, the Park, and Pecos Bill

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Roy Rogers, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, The Sons of the Pioneers

    Synopsis: The first portion of this Disneyland episode brings viewers up to date on construction of the Disneyland theme park as of the spring of 1957. Somehow or other, this segues into an illustrated history of American folklore. The episode's final segment consists of the "Pecos Bill" segment from the Read More

    1957

  • Disneyland: Cavalcade of Songs

    Crew: Teleplay By

    Synopsis: In this early episode of his TV anthology Disneyland, Walt Disney informs the viewers of how he has used music in his cartoons and live-action films, beginning with the classic "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" in 1933's The Three Little Pigs. Other examples include the songs from Snow White and Read More

    1955

  • Lady and the Tramp

    Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson

    Synopsis: Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based on an original story rather than an established "classic". Lady is the pampered female dog belonging to Jim Dear and Darling. When her Read More

    1955

  • Disneyland: A Story of Dogs

    Crew: Screen Story

    Synopsis: This early episode of TV's Disneyland anthology was essentially a glorified promotional trailer for Walt Disney's upcoming animated theatrical feature Lady and the Tramp. Shown hard at work on the project at the Disney studio were supervising director Clyde Geronomi, animation director Wolfgang Read More

    1954

  • Peter Pan

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel

    Synopsis: A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy (not to mention the more sinister aspects of the leading character), Disney and his staff fashioned a cheery, tuneful cartoon Read More

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  • Alice in Wonderland

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna

    Synopsis: This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Chasing after the White Rabbit, who runs into view singing "I'm Late! I'm Late!," Alice falls down the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy alternate world Read More

    1951

  • Cinderella

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Helene Stanley

    Synopsis: Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after eight years of turning out episodic pastiches like Make Mine Music and Three Caballeros. A few understandable liberties are taken with the original Charles Perrault fairy tale (the wicked stepsisters, for example, do not Read More

    1950

  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, Pat O'Malley, John Floyardt

    Synopsis: Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The Read More

    1949

  • Melody Time

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Roy Rogers, Dennis Day

    Synopsis: Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Read More

    1948

  • Make Mine Music

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Benny Goodman, Sterling Holloway, Dinah Shore, David Lichine

    Synopsis: In his first postwar animated feature, Walt Disney attempted to repeat the Fantasia formula, substituting "pop" music for the Classics. Make Mine Music consists of ten unrelated cartoon vignettes, each one featuring a popular recording artist. "A Rustic Ballad" is the story of the Martin-Coy Read More

    1946

  • Victory Through Air Power

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Walt Disney's animation/live action hybrid feature Victory Through Air Power is unabashed, and undeniably entertaining, wartime propaganda. At the time the film was made, Disney was fascinated with the theories of Major Alexander de Seversky, a proponent of strategic long-range bombing. Since Read More

    1943

  • Fantasia

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Disney and Read More

    1940

  • Pinocchio

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable, Mel Blanc, Don Brodie

    Synopsis: When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio (Dick Jones), is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. Read More

    1940

  • Mickey's Amateurs

    Crew: Director

    1937

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