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Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt (possibly part Great Dane) named Tramp who lives on the streets. Once of the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love.

The film was based loosely on two previous works, the 1937 book Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene about a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks, and a story line worked on for several years by Disney story man Joe Grant about a Cocker Spaniel named Lady, based on his own pet. Greene later wrote a novelization of the film, which was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story.

This film begat a spinoff comic titled Scamp, named after one of Lady and Tramp's puppies. Scamp also starred in a direct-to-video sequel in 2002 titled Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure.

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