Walt Disney's The Emperor's New Clothes (1957)

A bright, crisp, well-tailored Disney animated dramatization of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. The Emperor's New Clothes was Walt Disney's animated featurette filmed in the CinemaScope Widescreen film process. it was released to theaters on November 15, 1957.

Plot
Snip and Tuck, two swindlers posing as tailors, weave a jolly trick on Emperor Velvet, who is willing to sacrifice his castle, friends—even his Empress Velveteen and their children, Prince Terry, Prince Cloth and Princess Polly Ester—to buy the most luxurious new clothes available. The "tailors" pull the wool over everybody's eyes until a homespun boy has the courage to speak the unadorned truth, and all the fools are uncovered at last—and the swindlers are turned over to Shroud, keeper of the dungeon.

Production Company
Walt Disney Productions

Distributed by
Buena Vista Film Distribution Co. Inc.

Produced by
Walt Disney

Color process
CinemaScope

Technicolor

Voices & Live Action Models
Voice of Snip - Eleanor Audley

Voice of Tuck - Hans Conried

Voice of Lieutenant Rags - Jim Backus

Voice of Patches - Barbara Jo Allen

Voice of Shroud - Thurl Ravenscroft

Voice of Sir Yessir - Ray Bolger

Voice of Lady Yesmum - Verna Felton

Voices of The Townspeople - Paul Frees, June Foray, Cecil Roy, Billy Bletcher, Dallas McKennon, Pinto Colvig, Mel Blanc and Hal Smith

Voice of Empress Velveteen - Barbara Luddy

Voice of Prince Terry - Walter Tetley

Voice of Prince Cloth - Dick Beals

Voice of Princess Polly Ester - Joyce Terry

Voice of Emperor Velvet - Bill Thompson

Voice of Lord Trevor - Jackson Beck

Voice of Lord Daniel - Jack Mercer

Live Action Model for Emperor Velvet - Don Barclay

Live Action Model for Tuck - Gene Sheldon

Live Action Model for Snip - Henry Brandon

Live Action Model for Empress Velveteen - Helene Stanley

Narrator - Winston Hibler

Production Supervisor
Ken Peterson

Sound Supervisor
Robert O. Cook

Film Editors
Roy M. Brewer Jr.

Donald Halliday

Music Editor
Evelyn Kennedy

Special Processes
Ub Iwerks

Eustace Lycett

Music
George Bruns

Songs
Sonny Burke

Paul Webster

Jack Lawrence

Paul J. Smith

Orchestration
Joseph S. Dubin

Choral Arrangements
John Rarig

Story Adaptation
Erdman Penner

From the story by Hans Christian Andersen

Additional Story & Character Designs
Joe Rinaldi

Winston Hibler

Ted Sears

Bill Peet

Ralph Wright

Milt Banta

Bill Berg

Dick Huemer

Joe Grant

Fred Hellmich

Art Direction & Production Design
Don DaGradi

Ken Anderson

Layout
McLaren Stewart

Tom Codrick

Don Griffith

Erni Nordli

Basil Davidovich

Victor Haboush

Dick Ung

Al Zinnen

Ken O'Connor

Herb Ryman

Dick Kelsey

Dale Barnhart

Xavier Atencio

Vance Gerry

Joe Hale

Homer Jonas

Jack Huber

Ray Aragon

Color Styling
Eyvind Earle

Background
Dick Anthony

Claude Coats

Walt Peregoy

Collin Campbell

John Hench

Ray Huffine

Art Riley

Jimi Trout

Bill Layne

Thelma Witmer

Richard H. Thomas

Frank Armitage

Al Dempster

Fil Mottola

Ralph Hulett

Anthony Rizzo

Character Styling
Tom Oreb

Directing Animators
Milt Kahl

Frank Thomas

Marc Davis

Ward Kimball

John Lounsbery

Ollie Johnston

Character Animators
Hal King

Hal Ambro

Don Lusk

Henry Tanous

Harvey Toombs

Bob Carlson

George Nicholas

John Kennedy

Fred Kopietz

Ed Parks

C. August Nichols

Julius Svendsen

Ken Hultgren

John Sibley

Bob Youngquist

Blaine Gibson

Eric Cleworth

Ken O'Brien

Amby Paliwoda

George Kreisl

Art Stevens

Marv Woodward

Jerry Hathcock

Bob McCrea

Bill Keil

Cliff Nordberg

Dick Lucas

Effects Animators
Dan MacManus

Jack Boyd

Josh Meador

Jack Buckley

Supervising Directors
Clyde Geronimi

Hamilton Luske

Chuck Jones

Bill Justice

Sequence Directors
Eric Larson

Wolfgang Reitherman

Les Clark

Wilfred Jackson