J. M. Barrie's tale of the boy who would not grow up. Bill Peet worked on several sequences, concentrating on the comic menace of Captain Hook and the relentless Tick-Tock Crocodile, characters whose pantomime rivalry suited his gift for visual comedy.
Bill worked on several sequences including those with the Tic-Toc-Croc and Captain Hook. The cat-and-mouse dynamic between the vain pirate captain and the clock-swallowing crocodile gave Bill exactly the kind of broad physical comedy he loved to stage.
His contribution
Bill developed story material for the Captain Hook and Crocodile sequences, staging the running gag of the ticking crocodile stalking the terrified pirate. His turkey-in-flight and pirate sketches show the loose, energetic draftsmanship that fellow animators prized as a springboard for their work.
Story sketches
- RELEASED
- February 5, 1953
- DIRECTOR
- Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- BASED ON
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1904)
- BILL'S ROLE
- Story Artist (Captain Hook and the Crocodile sequences)
- RUNTIME
- 77 min