The bad news was the studio wanted it in less than a year, and “Snow White” had taken three years to complete. Not that there’s anything wrong with those guys, but, c’mon, they’re not exactly in the same realm as a film about an elderly couple dying of radiation poisoning after surviving a nuclear attack, now, are they?Īfter Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” became the top grossing picture of 1938, Paramount Pictures turned to Disney’s best known competitor, Max Fleischer (animator of the hugely popular Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons) for an animated feature of its own. That’s because, while some of these films can be aptly described with that term, it feels as though we’re doing others a disservice by lumping them into a category generally used to describe works by Bugs Bunny or Donald Duck. You may note that we’ve surrounded the word “cartoon” with quotation marks. Bullz-Eye decided to take a look back at a few of our favorite full-length animated features that haven’t gotten as much love in recent years as perhaps they should have…and just to be fair, we even managed to slip an underrated Disney film into the bunch as well. To do so, however, is to sell short quite a few other motion pictures that have emerged over the years.
That’s neither surprising nor wholly inappropriate, given how many full-fledged animation classics have come forth from Disney’s studios. Generally, when you think “animated film,” you think of one name: Walt Disney.
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