"""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"" (both 1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful ""Cinderella"" (1950) and ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), the latter of which received five Academy Awards. In the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into television programs, such as ""Walt Disney's Disneyland"" and ""The Mickey Mouse Club""; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair, the 1960 Winter Olympics, and"
"had its initial public offering. The studio continued releasing animated shorts and features, such as ""Pinocchio"" (1940), ""Fantasia"" (1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942). After World War II began, box office profits declined. When the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of Disney's animators were drafted into the armed forces. The U.S. and Canadian governments commissioned the studio to produce training and propaganda films. By 1942, 90% of its 550 employees were working on war-related films. Films such as the feature ""Victory Through Air Power"" and the short ""Education for Death"" (both 1943) were"
"renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. The studio's streak of success continued in the 1930s, culminating with the 1937 release of the first feature-length animated film, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", which becomes a huge financial success. With the profits from ""Snow White"", Walt relocated to a third studio in Burbank, California. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as ""The Reluctant Dragon"" (1941) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of ""Seal Island"" (1948), the"
"box office and the studio lost around $500,000 as a result. The required propaganda cartoon shorts were also not as popular as Disney's regular shorts, and by the time the Army ended its stay at Disney Studios when the war ended in 1945, Disney struggled to restart his studio, and had a low amount of cash on hand. Further Disney feature films of the 1940s were modestly budgeted collections of animated short segments put together to make a feature film. These began with ""Saludos Amigos"" in 1942 and continued during the war with ""The Three Caballeros"" in 1944 and after"
"Beanstalk"" and ""Bongo"" on hold until the war was over. The only feature film that was allowed to continue production was ""Bambi"", which was released in 1942. ""Bambi"" was ground-breaking in terms of animating animals realistically. However, due to the war ""Bambi"" failed at the box-office and received mixed reviews from the critics. This was to be short lived as it grossed a considerable amount of money in the 1947 re-release. Disney was now fully committed to the war and contributed by producing propaganda shorts and a feature film entitled ""Victory Through Air Power"". ""Victory Through Air Power"" did poor"
"Methods"". Disney also met with Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury, and agreed to produce short Donald Duck cartoons to promote war bonds. Disney also produced several propaganda productions, including shorts such as ""Der Fuehrer's Face""which won an Academy Awardand the 1943 feature film ""Victory Through Air Power"". The military films generated only enough revenue to cover costs, and the feature film ""Bambi""which had been in production since 1937underperformed on its release in April 1942, and lost $200,000 at the box office. On top of the low earnings from ""Pinocchio"" and ""Fantasia"", the company had debts of $4"
"to fade into rows of identical graves, with nothing on them except a swastika and a helmet perched on top. Thus Hans's education is complete – ""his education... for death."" ""Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi"" was released when Disney was under government contract to produce 32 animated shorts from 1941 to 1945. In 1940, Walt Disney spent four times his budget on the feature film ""Fantasia"" (1940) which suffered from low box office turnout. Nearing bankruptcy and with half of his employees on strike, Walt Disney was forced to look for a solution to bring money into"
"Williams, James MacDonald, Luis van Rooten, Don Barclay, Mike Douglas, William Phipps, and Lucille Bliss. At the time, Walt Disney Productions had suffered from losing connections to the European film markets due to the outbreak of World War II, enduring some box office bombs like ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"", and ""Bambi"", all of which would later become more successful with several re-releases in theaters and on home video. At the time, however, the studio was over $4 million in debt and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Walt Disney and his animators turned back to feature film production in 1948 after producing"
"of ""Snow White"" heralded one of the most productive eras for the studio; the Walt Disney Family Museum calls the following years ""the 'Golden Age of Animation'"". With work on ""Snow White"" finished, the studio began producing ""Pinocchio"" in early 1938 and ""Fantasia"" in November of the same year. Both films were released in 1940, and neither performed well at the box officepartly because revenues from Europe had dropped following the start of World War II in 1939. The studio made a loss on both pictures and was deeply in debt by the end of February 1941. In response to"
"and appointed him art director of the film. Wong's backgrounds were revolutionary since they had more detail around the center and less around the edges, thus leading a viewer's eye to the characters. Due to World War II, which began in Europe in 1939, ""Pinocchio"" and ""Fantasia"" failed at the box office. Facing financial difficulty, Disney was forced to cut 12 minutes from the film before final animation to save production costs. ""Bambi"" was released in theaters in 1942, during World War II, and was Disney's 5th full-length animated film. The film was re-released to theatres in 1947, 1957, 1966,"
"1930s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The film was considered a flop on its initial release, leading to Walt Disney showing it on television as one of the first episodes of his TV series Disneyland. It proved to be very successful on Television, especially during the psychedelic era. It was eventually re-released in theaters which proved to be massively successful. The film became even more successful though merchandising and subsequent home video releases. The theme"
"the success of ""Snow White"", Disney went on to produce ""Pinocchio"", which was released in 1940. It was considered a stunning achievement both technically and artistically, costing twice as much as ""Snow White"". However ""Pinocchio"" was not a financial success, since World War II (which began in Europe in 1939) had cut off 40% of Disney's foreign release market and although it was a moderate success in the United States, the domestic gross alone was not enough to make back its revenue. However, the film did receive very positive reviews and has made millions from subsequent re-releases. Later that year,"
"the angelic side makes Donald buy his war savings certificates. Immediately, a series of posters and war messages reinforce the message to ""Invest in Victory"". In 1939, with the outbreak of a global war, Walt Disney Studios felt a great pinch in their finances due to the loss of much of their European markets. This was further limited with the invasion of France by Nazi forces in 1940, which meant that the next Disney release ""Pinocchio"" (1940) was only dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese, a great deal less languages than previous Disney works. Due to this loss of profit, and"
"of the strikeand the financial state of the companyseveral animators left the studio, and Disney's relationship with other members of staff was permanently strained as a result. The strike temporarily interrupted the studio's next production, ""Dumbo"" (1941), which Disney produced in a simple and inexpensive manner; the film received a positive reaction from audiences and critics alike. Shortly after the release of ""Dumbo"" in October 1941, the U.S. entered World War II. Disney formed the Walt Disney Training Films Unit within the company to produce instruction films for the military such as ""Four Methods of Flush Riveting"" and ""Aircraft Production"
"by cartoons starring Mickey Mouse, Figaro, and in the 1950s, Chip 'n' Dale and Humphrey the Bear. In addition, Disney began reissuing the previous features, beginning with re-releases of ""Snow White"" in 1944, ""Pinocchio"" in 1945, and ""Fantasia"" in 1946. This led to a tradition of reissuing the Disney films every seven years, which lasted into the 1990s before being translated into the studio's handling of home video releases. In 1948, Disney returned to the production of full-length features with ""Cinderella"", a full-length film based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. At a cost of nearly $3 million, the"
"a planet where shooting stars are made. The short won the 1940 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, and was the first non-Disney film to do so. Other shorts nominated in 1940 included ""A Wild Hare"" by Warner Bros., introducing Bugs Bunny, and another MGM cartoon ""Puss Gets the Boot"", with Jasper & Jinx, the prototype for Tom and Jerry. It was added as a bonus feature in the Marx Bros. DVD release of ""Go West"" (1940). Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for losing their mittens, sail up into the Milky Way in a hot air balloon. Once in"
"only film which depicts a regular Disney character engaging with the enemy at war. Commando Duck Commando Duck is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on June 2, 1944 by RKO Radio Pictures. Donald Duck parachutes into the jungle of a remote Pacific island to wipe out a Japanese airfield undetected. His raft is caught beneath a waterfall and starts inflating. He makes sure the raft hits nothing that would pop it. When he gets to the edge of a cliff, he sees the airfield. The raft has already exploded, causing water to flow. This large"
"(1941), ""Went the Day Well?"" (1942), ""The Way Ahead"" (1944) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film ""In Which We Serve"" in 1942, which won a special Academy Award. These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (1943), ""A Canterbury Tale"" (1944) and ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film ""Henry V"", based on the Shakespearean history ""Henry V"". The success of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" allowed Disney to make more animated features like ""Pinocchio"" (1940), ""Fantasia"" (1940),"
"receipts to the studio of $1,423,046.78. This was primarily due to the fact that World War II and its aftermath had cut off the European and Asian markets overseas, and hindered the international success of ""Pinocchio"" and other Disney releases during the early and mid-1940s. Joe Grant recalled Walt Disney being ""very, very depressed"" about ""Pinocchio's"" initial returns at the box office. The distributor RKO recorded a loss of $94,000 for the film from worldwide rentals of $3,238,000. Many film historians consider this to be the film that most closely approaches technical perfection of all the Disney animated features. Film"
"its $1.7 million budget, it only grossed $1.64 million. Production of full-length animated features was temporarily suspended after the release of ""Bambi"". Given the financial failures of some of the recent features and World War II cutting off much of the overseas cinema market, the studio's financiers at the Bank of America would only loan the studio working capital if it temporarily restricted itself to shorts production. Then in-production features such as ""Peter Pan"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", and ""Lady and the Tramp"" were therefore put on hold until after the war. Other issues affecting the studio at the time included"
"initial release were both below ""Snow White's"" unprecedented success and below studio expectations. Of the film's $2.289 million negative cost – twice the cost of ""Snow White"" – Disney only recouped $1 million by late 1940, with studio reports of the film's final original box office take varying between $1.4 million and $1.9 million. Animation historian Michael Barrier notes that ""Pinocchio"" returned rentals of less than one million by September 1940, and in its first public annual report, Walt Disney Productions charged off a $1 million loss to the film. Barrier relays that a 1947 ""Pinocchio"" balance sheet listed total"
"though its high budget and promotions costs of an estimated $4 million (equivalent to $ million in ), coupled with the lower revenue generated by discounted children's tickets, meant that the film did not make a profit until it was rereleased in the 1940s and in subsequent rereleases. At the 1939 Academy Awards ceremony, Garland received her only academy award, a Juvenile Award for her performances in 1939, including ""The Wizard of Oz"" and ""Babes in Arms"". In 1940, she starred in three films: ""Andy Hardy Meets Debutante"", ""Strike Up the Band"", and ""Little Nellie Kelly"". In the last, she"
"This was further limited with the invasion of France by Nazi forces in 1940, which meant that the next Disney release ""Pinocchio"" (1940) was only dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese, a great deal less languages than previous Disney works. Due to this loss of profit, and losses on recent films, Disney studios faced a bleak outlook of a deficit of over half a million dollars, layoffs and pay cuts for the first time in the studio, and a $2.23 million ceiling on their credit allowance. With bleak prospects, the studio was made into a corporation in April 1940, which raised"
"a very effective instructional tool. In a screening for members of the public, civilians felt that they had gained enough information ""... to pick up a Mk.1 and blast a German tank out of existence."" With the outbreak of a global war, Walt Disney Studios felt a great pinch in their finances due to the loss of much of their European markets. This was further limited with the invasion of France by Nazi forces in 1940, which meant that the next Disney release ""Pinocchio"" (1940) was only dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese, a great deal less languages than previous Disney"
"million in gross revenue worldwide. The film begins with the sound of an orchestra tuning and Deems Taylor's introduction from ""Fantasia"". Panels showing various segments from ""Fantasia"" fly in outer space and form the set and stage for an orchestra. Musicians take their seats and tune up and animators draw at their desks before James Levine approaches the conductor's podium and signals the beginning of the first piece. In 1940, Walt Disney released ""Fantasia"", his third animated feature film, consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music. Initially he planned to have the film on continual release"
"Award for Animated Short Film because of its impressive visual power. Although ""Snow White"" had been largely finished by the time the multiplane camera had been completed, Disney ordered some scenes be re-drawn to use the new effects. ""Snow White"" premiered in December 1937 to high praise from critics and audiences. The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and by May 1939 its total gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful sound film made to that date. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one full-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes. The success"
"was abandoning traditional animation, an idea that the studio dismissed. That same year, ""Frozen"", a CGI musical film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Snow Queen"", was released to widespread acclaim and became a blockbuster hit. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee with songs by the Broadway team of Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez, it was the first Disney animated film to earn over $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue and is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, surpassing Pixar's ""Toy Story 3"". ""Frozen"" also became the first film from Walt Disney Animation Studios to win"
"(1941) (animator) The Art of Skiing (1941) (animator) The Reluctant Dragon (1941) (effects animator) (uncredited) Baggage Buster (1941) (effects animator) (uncredited) A Gentleman's Gentleman (1941) (animator) The Little Whirlwind (1941) (effects animator) (uncredited) Pluto's Playmate (1941) (animator) Pantry Pirate (1940) (animator) Goofy's Glider (1940) (animator) Fantasia (1940) (effects animator) (segment ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"") (uncredited) Put-Put Troubles (1940) (effects animator) (uncredited) Pinocchio (1940) (effects animator) (uncredited) Brave Little Tailor (1938) (effects animator) (uncredited) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (effects animator) (uncredited) Animation Department: Bootle Beetle (1947) (animator) Clown of the Jungle (1947) (animator) Double Dribble (1946) (animator) Frank Duck"
"box office success. The box office returns from the film's initial release were both below ""Snow White""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s unprecedented success and the studio's expectations. Of the film's $2.289 million cost – twice of ""Snow White"" – Disney only recouped $1 million by late 1940, with studio reports of the film's final original box office take varying between $1.4 million and $1.9 million. However, ""Pinocchio"" was a critical success, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Best Original Score, making it the first film of the studio to win not only either Oscar, but both at the same time. ""Fantasia"","
"1937. It was briefly the highest-grossing film of all time before the success of ""Gone with the Wind"" two years later, grossing over $8 million on its initial release, the equivalent of $ in 1999 dollars. During the production of ""Snow White"", work had continued on the ""Mickey Mouse"" and ""Silly Symphonies"" series of shorts. ""Mickey Mouse"" switched to Technicolor in 1935, by which time the series had added several major supporting characters, among them Mickey's dog Pluto and their friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto would all be appearing in series of their own by 1940,"
"by popularity polls. And with the availability of full spectrum color, the Fleischer Studios produced three two-reel ""Popeye"" featurettes, ""Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor"" (1936), ""Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba and His Forty Thieves"" (1937), and ""Popeye the Sailor Meets Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp"" (1939). This series of longer-format cartoons were an indication of the emergence of the animated feature film, which was finally established by the success of Walt Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937). The Fleischer Studios had reached its zenith by 1936, with four series and 52 annual releases. Due to the phenomenal"
"edition of December 29, 1941. However, the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 of that year shifted the news cycle away from ""Dumbo"", although the previously planned essay on the film, with a more appropriate introduction, appeared in the December 29 issue's ""Cinema"" section. Today, the film holds a 97% rating at movie aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic Leonard Maltin described it as ""One of Walt Disney's most charming animated films"". In 2011, ""TIME"" named it one of ""The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films"". ""Dumbo"" won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Original Score, awarded to musical directors Frank"
"with seven of the Tom and Jerry shorts going on to win the Academy Award: ""The Yankee Doodle Mouse"" (1943), ""Mouse Trouble"" (1944), ""Quiet Please!"" (1945), ""The Cat Concerto"" (1946), ""The Little Orphan"" (1948), ""The Two Mouseketeers"" (1951), and ""Johann Mouse"" (1952). Tom and Jerry was eventually tied with ""Disney's Silly Symphonies"" as the most-awarded theatrical cartoon series. Hanna and Barbera also produced/directed for ""MGM cartoon studio"" half a dozen ""one-shot theatrical shorts"" besides ""Tom and Jerry series"", including ""Gallopin' Gals"" (1940), ""Officer Pooch"" (1941), ""War Dogs"" (1943) and ""Good Will to Men"" (1955). Fred Quimby retired in 1955, with"