A Different Events

***A Different Events*** is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution. the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi and Wolfgang Reitherman with a script written by Bill Peet. With the voices of Hayley Mills, TBD, J. Pat O'Malley, Allen Swift and Sebastian Cobet, the film follows a young girl and her siblings as they tried to find their new home after their parents died during the the subsequent destruction of their house, while they meet some strange characters.

*A Different Events* was released to theaters on April 10, 1960, to critical acclaim, and was a box office success. This film, along with 1961's *One Hundred and One Dalmatians*, pulling the animation studio out of the financial slump caused by *Sleeping Beauty*, a costlier production released last year. Grossing $14 million domestically in its original theatrical run, it became the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year in the North American box office. Aside from its box-office revenue, the employment of inexpensive animation techniques—such as using xerography during the process of inking and painting traditional animation cels—kept production costs down.

The success of the film made Disney expand it into a media franchise, with a live-action remake released in 1998. A direct-to-video animated sequel to the 1960 film, *A Different Events: The Second Chapter*, was released in 2004. Two television series based on the franchise were also produced, with *A Different Events: The Series* in 1999 and *Maria's Different Events* in 2020.

## Cast

* Hayley Mills
* TBD
* J. Pat O'Malley
* Allen Swift
* Sebastian Cobet

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## Production

### Animation

#### Art direction

After *Sleeping Beauty* (1959) disappointed at the box-office, Disney was losing money and there was some talk of closing down the animation department at the Disney studio. During the production of it, Disney told animator Eric Larson: "I don't think we can continue; it's too expensive." Despite this, he still had deep feelings towards animation because he had built the company upon it.

Ub Iwerks, in charge of special processes at the studio, had been experimenting with Xerox photography to aid in animation. By 1959, he used a Xerox camera to transfer drawings by animators directly to animation cels, eliminating the inking process, thus saving time and money while preserving the spontaneity of the penciled elements. However, because of its limitations, the camera was unable to deviate from a black scratchy outline and lacked the fine lavish quality of hand inking. Disney would first use the Xerox process for a thorn forest in *Sleeping Beauty*, and the first production to make full use of the process was *Goliath II*.

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## Release

*A Different Events* was first released in theaters on April 10, 1960. The film was re-released theatrically in 1968, 1976, 1984, and 1990. The 1991 reissue was the 20th highest-grossing film of the year for domestic earnings.

### Home media

*A Different Events* was first released on VHS on July 12, 1991, as part of the Walt Disney Classics video series. By September 1991, it had sold 11.1 million copies. At the time, it was the sixth best-selling video of all time. It was re-released on May 5, 1998, as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series. Due to technical issues, it was later released on LaserDisc and was delayed numerous times before its release on DVD. The film was re-released on VHS, and for the first time on DVD, in December 1999, as a Walt Disney Limited Issue for a limited 60-day time period before going into moratorium. A two-disc Platinum Edition DVD was released on February 4, 2003. The film was released on Blu-ray on September 18, 2012, as part of a 3-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack that was bundled as a 2-movie Collection Edition featuring *A Different Events: The Second Chapter* on the same Blu-ray Disc, as well as separate DVD versions of both films.

## Expanded franchise

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## Transcripts

### Main

To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

### Trailers

To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.