Elle

Elle is a 1960 2D animated short film distributed by Walt Disney Studios.

It is written and directed by Michael O'Donoghue and Raquel Welch.

It features the voice talents of Frank Langella, Dennis Fimple, Rita Tushingham, Michael Gambon and Jill St. John.

It is listed as one of three little girl wonderland films of all time alongside the Wizard Of Oz and Alice In Wonderland.

The give way forever stretching staircase originated from this film making one of the most famous scenes which has been parodied in other films and games for the past 40 years.

Plot
A Little Brunette Girl Elle (Jill St. John) doesn't fit in her at school as she has a wildly hyperactive imagination which other kids from little school frown upon.

She exceeds in the subject of art where she puts drawing and painting her ideas to good use.

However a mean bully girl Marissa Maclaire rips up an unfinished drawing she had planned to take home and finish.

Elle violently attacked the girl and as a result got expelled from her small school.

This causes great strain upon Elle's single parent mother Evangeline (Rita Tushingham) who now can't drop her off at school whilest she is at work and instead resorts to dropping her off at the local art museum.

There Elle eventually nods off and dreams that she is awoken by the sound of a playing piano.

She discovers a strange man playing the piano named Mr. Plankman (Dennis Fimple) who proclaims he will be her guide to the Place Where She Belongs.

From there as the Plankman begins playing hynoptic songs on the piano Elle is wisked into different paintings containing different worlds of characters.

One world sees her contend with ravaging pirate monkeys who are terrorizing a girl much like herself.

One world sees her swept underwater with a bunch of fish boys.

Another sees her running across a vast desert of sand tunes which rise to great heights and contain a gigantic monster worm within the dunes which is very upset.

Along the way however she learns the Place Where She Belongs is threatened by an evil dead man with a marvellous moustache whom is named Mr. Sanderson.

Mr. Sanderson plans to abduct the four talented ones from some of the painting worlds Elle is whisked into.

It is revealed however that there is a secret fifth talented whom is actually Elle.

Mr. Sanderson's plan is to get the five talented ones to produce a painting for him which will become five worlds which he can add the corridor world of the World She Belongs.

By doing so he break the thread of promise and rule all worlds within the world of the World Where She Belongs