Wart and Kay are spending part of their afternoon hunting deer in a clear, sunny field. In Disney's Sword and the Stone, Wart meets Merlin in the following way:
This will be compared against the depiction of the tale in White's book, and the shaping forces of movie convention pointed out. The work of the writer and director of the film in the changing of the medium will be examined in the first few scenes of the movie, where Wart meets Merlin for the first time. The restrictions and conventions of movie making, namely, time span, and target audience, had the largest part in shaping the direction the movie took with the adaptation of White's classic. The change of medium used to depict this story resulted in the changing of parts of the story. White's Once and Future King, (1) and was understandably a very large undertaking, necessitating the use of a sole director. In the case of this movie that credit went to Wolfgang Reitherman. The 1963 Disney film, the Sword in the Stone (2) was the first Disney film to give sole directorial credit to anyone involved in the film process (3).
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