A surprising fact about 'The Rescuers' we did not know...

Which I incorporated into the Wikipedia article as well as the trivia section here:

"Contrary to popular belief, Walt Disney was involved in the development of the film. Though actual production did not begin until about 1973, the suggestion of considering Margery Sharp's "Miss Bianca" novels was made in 1962 (at this time, only the first two had been published). Disney disliked the idea of a faithful adaptation of Sharp's The Rescuers (1959), in which Miss Bianca, Bernard and a third mouse named Nils rescued a Norwegian poet from imprisonment, and suggested that the subject of rescue be changed to a polar bear named Willie held captive in a zoo. Following Walt's death in 1966, Sharp's second novel in the series was selected as the primary source for adaptation."

The source of this information is the digital booklet included with Disney's "The Lost Chords" .mp3 collection.

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