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The original stories that inspire our favorite films.

31/10/2025

From my daughter, to all of you. Stay safe and have a great time! ~Paul

30/10/2025

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29/10/2025

Here is my annual reminder that Disney Story Origins Episode 08 — The Legend of Sleepy Hollow still exists. 🎃

In this DSO Halloween Special, we compare and contrast Disney's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" with Washington Irving's classic short story. This podcast contains certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith....

25/10/2025

It’s been a long swim, but we finally reached the shore with this final episode. I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride, and that this last installment brings it all home for you.

This series has been a blast to put together—even with the challenges.

I hope you like this closing chapter of the Jaws series, and as always, thank you so much for listening.

More to come. ~Paul

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Comparing and contrasting "JAWS" by Universal with the novel "JAWS" by Peter Benchley. This podcast contains certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by federal law and the fair use doctrin...

20/10/2025

Here's another one. I'm still figuring out how to use movie clips and not get struck down by YouTube's Copyright algorithm, but I think I'm locking down a formula. I hope you watch. I hope you enjoy. I hope you click like, and I hope you subscribe! 😁~Paul

In this video I discuss some of the differences between The Hunger Games novel, and the movie, and why I won't do a full episode on them. I hope you enjoy it...

18/10/2025

80 YouTube subs and climbing! Thank you to the Distance Nerding Podcast and The Fandom Nexus for helping spread the word. I’m really excited for CSO’s future on YouTube!

17/10/2025

Yesterday morning CSO's YouTube channel had 2 subscribers (one of them is my wife). I asked you for help getting me to 50 to unlock the ability to livestream. This morning the channel has 61 subscribers. To those of you who went out of your way to give me that boost: THANK YOU. Any ideas about what I can livestream to you guys...I'm all ears! 👂👂

Once again, thank you all for listening. You're the best! ~Paul

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16/10/2025

I’m preparing to launch content on YouTube, hopefully including livestreams. But YouTube won’t let me livestream until I have no less than 50 subscribers. It would give me a big kickstart and be a huge favor for any of this show’s fans to pop over there and give it a sub. 🙏

Where movies meet the stories that inspired them. From fairy tales and folklore to novels and history, this show breaks down the origins behind your favorite films and tells the stories side by side. Hosted by Paul Hale this show deep dives and page-to-screen storytelling at its best.

13/10/2025

It took some digging, but I found it. 😊

12/10/2025

Some people just know.

She was afraid people would rewrite history so she saved over 30 years of TV history on 71,000 VHS Tapes. She at one time maintained nine apartments to store her tapes.

Marion Stokes recorded television nonstop for over 30 years, documenting news, local programs, commercials, sitcoms, and late-night shows.

She began in the 1970s and continued until her death in 2012, using up to eight machines to capture multiple channels like CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN.

Her goal was to save history and help people find the truth in media. She believed TV networks were throwing away their own archives, but she wanted to save everything as a resource so anyone could look back and check the facts.

She used her own money to fund the project. She became wealthy because she invested in Apple early on.

After she died, her son donated her recordings to the Internet Archive, so one day the public will be able to search and watch this whole record of television history.

The Internet archive claims the exact number tapes are 71,716.

11/10/2025

If you know, you know

10/10/2025

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It’s common knowledge that the books, myths and historical events that Hollywood draws inspiration from are always better and more interesting than the films that are based on them. We’ve grown up hearing that old platitude, “The book is better.” It’s a platitude, because it is true more often than not. And when you see a movie based on a book, a myth or some historical event, Hollywood always makes drastic changes, leave things out, or puts things in. Hollywood will do its best to capture the essence of the story, without telling the whole story. Historical facts, or sections of the original work that is ignored is irrelevant to the stories that the filmmaker is trying to tell. No one takes that principle and bends it to their will like Disney. Disney does it their way, no matter what the story is. Some fairy tales and myths fit into their formula nicely. But if it doesn't, if the story is a square peg, and their family-friendly formula is a round hole, they will take the square peg, put it on top of that round hole, and drive it in with a sledgehammer, and whatever’s left lying around that didn't make into that round hole is why I created this podcast, the blog site, and this page. The Disney Story Origins Podcast, discusses what Disney left out, forgot to mention, changed and some might say subverted to tell a Disney-style story. Also, this is not an effort to bash on Disney. This is a podcast for Disney fans to hear the real stories, shake our heads, to smile and say, "Wow, I never knew that." The page is meant as a community for listeners of the podcast, where once and awhile I will post little facts that most people don't know regarding the differences between actual stories and Disney's version. Just by opening a book, putting a few keystrokes into Google, you can learn the heritage and history of these stories and get the real story. If you don’t have time or nary the inclination... welcome to Disney Story Origins. ~Paul J. Hale

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