The Sword in the Stone Drawing

The Sword in the Stone Drawing

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 fantasy animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963. The eighteenth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was the last Disney animated feature released while Walt Disney was alive.

It is part of the 'English Cycle' of animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Robin Hood and The Great Mouse Detective .

The film is based on the novel The Sword in the Stone, at first published in 1938 as a single novel. It was then later republished in 1958 as the first book of T. H. White’s tetralogy The Once and Future King. From Merlin’s statement that The Times won't come out for another 1200 years ("They can't wait for the London Times. First edition won't be out for at least, uh... 1,200 years."), it may be extrapolated that the film is set circa A.D. 558.