And the Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins episode 2, frozen.

The Snow Queen was first published in 1845 and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and little girl, Kay and Gerda.

The story is one of Anderson's longest and one of his most highly acclaimed by readers and critics.

Way back in 1943, Walt Disney and Samuel Goldwyn had considered the possibility of collaborating

together to produce a biography film of Hans Christian Anderson.

Goldwyn's studio would shoot the live action stuff and Disney would do the animated sequences.

The animated sequences were to include stories of Anderson's fairy tales such as The Little Mermaid, the Little Match Girl, the Snow Queen Thumbelina, the Ugly Duckling, the Red Shoes, and the Emperor's new clothes.

Walt and his animators were having a hard time with the Snow Queen.

They couldn't find a way to adapt and relate her character to modern audiences.

This among other things led to the cancellation of the Disney

Goldwyn project. Goldwyn went on to produce his own live-action film

version in 1952 entitled Hans Christian Anderson. It went on to receive six Academy Award nominations the following year.

Back at Disney, the Snow Queen, along with other Anderson fairy tales, including the Little Mermaid, were shelved.

In the late 1990s,

Walt Disney feature animation started on their own adaptation of the Snow Queen

after the tremendous success of movies like The Little Mermaid in 1989, Beauty and the Beast in 1991,

Aladdin in 1992, The Lion King in 1994, Polchahontas in 1995, the Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996, Hercules in 1997, and

Mulan in 1998.

This is an era that we Disney fans referred to as the Disney Renaissance.

But the Snow Queen project was scrapped completely in late 2002

when Glen King quit the project.

Three other veterans at Disney took a shot at it and all failed and

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