Art of the Sword in the Stone (part 1)
/The Sword in the Stone is an animation movie produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman in 1963. The film was based on the novel of the same name, which was first published in 1938 as a single novel, and that was later republished in 1958 as the first book of T. H. White's tetralogy The Once and Future King. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie.
THE STORY
As an orphaned child, Arthur, who was then known as Wart, wants to help his foster brother, Kay, succeed in becoming a knight. While helping Kay train, Wart stumbles upon a cabin belonging to Merlin, a bumbling but talented wizard. Merlin does his best to convince the boy that he is bound for greatness, and when Wart and Kay travel to London to attend a jousting contest, they learn that Merlin was right..
