Lady and the Tramp November 16, 1988, Peggy Lee sued the Walt Disney Company for breach of contract, claiming that she retained the rights to transcriptions of the music, arguing that videotape editions were transcriptions. After a protracted legal battle, she was awarded $2.3 million in 1991. The remastered soundtrack of "Lady and the Tramp" was released on CD by Walt Disney Records on September 9, 1997, and was released as a digital download on September 26, 2006. On February 27, 2001, Disney Television Animation released a direct-to-video sequel to the film titled "". Produced 46 years after its predecessor and takes place two
Lady and the Tramp Disney decided to animate the film in CinemaScope making "Lady and the Tramp" the first animated feature filmed in the process. This new innovation presented additional problems for the animators: the expansion of space created more realism but gave fewer closeups. It also made it difficult for a single character to dominate the screen so that groups had to be spread out to keep the screen from appearing sparse. Longer takes become necessary since constant jump-cutting would seem too busy or annoying. Layout artists essentially had to reinvent their technique. Animators had to remember that they had to move their