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Robin Hood, the twenty-first animated film released by Walt Disney Studios, premiered on November 8, 1973. It was the first feature the studio released that had no creative input from Disney himself, who died in 1966, and had many Hollywood insiders doubting the ability of the studio to carry on without him. The success or failure of this one film would make or break the most successful animation studio in U.S. history.
With so much at stake, it is surprising that the studio had allotted such a small budget to the production. To save money, the animators were told to recycle animation cells from previous films. These cells could be amended, touched up, and re-colored, allowing new characters to perform old routines. In particular, the song-and-dance sequence for “The Phony King of England” used cells from The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Snow White. Moreover, the animation cells of Baloo in The Jungle Book were used to animate Little John, while Robin Hood’s cells were originally those used for Peter Pan. The sequences involving the snake Sir Hiss and his mesmerizing of King John are recycled cells used for Kaa in The Jungle Book.
In 1941, Walt Disney distributed his fourth animated feature, Dumbo. Based on the children’s book of the same name, written by Helen Aberson and drawn by Harold Perl, Dumbo follows the adventures of Jumbo, Jr., a baby elephant. Because of his unnaturally large ears, which give him the power to fly, Jumbo, Jr. is nicknamed “Dumbo.” His only friend, other than his mother, is Timothy the mouse.
When Disney submitted his first cut of Dumbo to RKO, their distributor at the time, the studio was dismayed to find the running time was only 64 minutes. George J. Schaefer, the president of RKO, demanded Disney either edit the feature down to a short film or beef it up to 70 minutes. Disney refused, and insisted Dumbo be released as an A picture, in the maximum number of theaters nation-wide. Schaefer reluctantly agreed.
2008 ushered in the 85th year for the movie giant the world all refers to as Disney in general. Disney, specifically, began very small in 1923. The first productions were called “Alice” comedies, beginning with “Alice’s Day at Sea.” A lot of folks today have no memory of Alice, but the name Mickey Mouse rings a bell with nearly everyone in the country.
Mickey made his debut in Steamboat Willie in 1928 and became an instant star. He was not alone for long, however, as “siblings” soon followed with regularity. 1930 saw the birth of Pluto; 1932 brought Goofy, and Donald grouched his way onto movie screens in 1934. These beloved characters made Walt Disney a much talked about name before the first feature length animated film, Snow White, premiered in 1937.
Fantasia is the third film Walt Disney produced and is perhaps the most ambitious. The film has no dialogue, relying instead on a sumptuous soundtrack performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Though the film is mostly animated, it does have some live-action sequences featuring Stokowski and the Orchestra. Fantasia was also notable for being the first major film to be screened in stereophonic sound.
Disney originally exhibited the film as a two-hour special engagement across the country. It was met with a lukewarm reception, forcing RKO Radio Pictures, which bought the rights to distribute the film in 1942, to cut the running time down to roughly 81 minutes. Between 1946 and 1977 the film was reedited, resulting in a version 9 minutes shorter than the 1941 original release. The complete version would not be released until the 2000 DVD reissue. By the late 1930s, Mickey Mouse had begun to lose popularity. In fact, Donald Duck was proving to be a more profitable character for Disney at the time. In an effort to reestablish Mickey’s dominance, Disney placed his protg in an animated short entitled The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Based on the Goethe’s story of the same name, the story artists had intended to feature Dopey from Snow White in the title role, but Disney would have none of that. To that end, Mickey was reworked and given a host of new mannerisms, not to mention pupils. All of the reworking cost approximately $125,000, whereas a typical Disney animated short had cost the studio about $40,000.