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This article analyses the censorship files that were processed during Franco’s dictatorship of the fairy tale Cinderella. In this way, the reader is offered an overview of the editing and censorship process of this work from 1939 to 1975, with the intention of showing the aspects in which the censors noted the greatest incidences: religion and the female model. This temporal perspective of the monographic analysis of the same story seems to be very useful, as it allows to understand the changes in the censorship process throughout its existence, as well as the transformation of censorship legislation from an initial stage to the enactment of specific regulations on children’s and young people’s literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a reflection about using the Fairy Tales as an historic document. It talks about how the of story, and the society that write it, in order to analyze moral role when themes like vice and virtue in individuals appeared. This type of story telling is contrast with the respective North American Cinderella cinematographic adaptation to show how the vice and virtue theme is display in the female models from four cinematographic shorts and six full length movies from the USA dated from 1936 to 2007. This research looks forward to present the relationship between filmic adaptation with the written tradition version of the story, and the transformation that the image of women in the 20th Century has undergo from the Cinderella character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]