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Disney goes ape; Animated 'Tarzan' treads familiar paths while breaking new ground.

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19990613
Author:Rodman, Sarah

When making a film, it's nice to have the author of the original work on your side. Even if he's dead.

The people at Walt Disney got a nice surprise when they decided to animate Edgar Rice Burroughs' much-filmed 1912 classic "Tarzan." In some correspondence shown to them by Burroughs' grandson, the author had written notes in 1936 about adapting the story for animation.

"It must be good," he wrote. "It must approximate Disney excellence."

With that seal of approval the Mouse House proceeded, and on Friday will release its version of the tale of the orphaned infant ...

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