Identify a Disney CS Lewis cartoon for me

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Back in the 1970's or 1980's, there was a cartoon, put out I believe by Disney, that had to do with the Chronicles of Narnia, I believe. I'm reaching pretty far back into the old file cabinet to pull out this one. I know for a fact that there was a cartoon movie, about a boy knight and his friends, trying to save a magical pig. No, I am not high while writing this. The pig could talk, and I remember something about a witch with a huge pot that was either going to cook the pig etc. Like I said, this was a long time ago. I also remember a talking dog like animal that had angered the knight. I remember that I got a book with it, an illustrated book, obvious Disney style. I distinctly remember the authors name, C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia books, and that of course someone else had adapted it for the book.

I realize that this is a big shot in the dark, but any help is appreciated.


No, I haven't taped a Sebenza lately, I can't even afford a Sebbie. I've checked IMDB also.
 
Are you thinking of "The Black Cauldron?" I don't think it was CS Lewis, but it did have a talking pig being pursued by an evil demon-king.
 
Thats it. I distinctly remember the author being either CS Lewis or TS Eliot. Eliot is a poet, so I thought it was Lewis. The author is actually Lloyd Alexander. From what I remember, I liked the adapted book version. It looks like it was a POS, from the reviews. I thought it correlated with Narnia. Thanks for the title.

For some reason I thought of it, with all of the Narnia commercials bombarding the airwaves.
 
The author would be Lloyd Alexander. The movie was awful, the books are quite nice for their age target.

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King

Based on Celtic myth, similar in many ways to the material Tolkien used. As a 5th grader, they were my favorite books.


Phil
 
If the letter linked to here>

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/29/cs_lewis_dont_let_di.html

is authentic, then any C.S. Lewis work done by Disney was against his wishes.

Dear Sieveking
(Why do you 'Dr' me? Had we not dropped the honorifics?) As things worked out, I wasn't free to hear a single instalment of our serial [The Magician's Nephew] except the first. What I did hear, I approved. I shd. be glad for the series to be given abroad. But I am absolutely opposed - adamant isn't in it! - to a TV version. Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. At least, with photography. Cartoons (if only Disney did not combine so much vulgarity with his genius!) wld. be another matter. A human, pantomime, Aslan wld. be to me blasphemy.

All the best,
yours
C. S. Lewis

[Letter to BBC producer Lance Sieveking (1896-1972), who has written at the top: 'The Magician's Nephew' and, after the address, the phone number "62963".]
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Damn Walt Disney and his vulgarity!
 
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