"For much of the Academy Awards' history, AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular Oscar for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration. Instead, the Academy occasionally bestowed special Oscars for exceptional productions, usually for Walt Disney Pictures, such as for ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" in 1938, and the Special Achievement Academy Award for the live action/animated hybrid ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" in 1989 and ""Toy Story"" in 1996. In fact, prior to the creation of the award, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's ""Beauty and"
"New York"" (1928), the first all-talking full-length feature film. The animated short film ""Dinner Time"" (1928) by the Van Beuren Studios was among the first animated sound films. It was followed a few months later by the animated short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), the first sound film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was the first commercially successful animated short film and introduced the character Mickey Mouse.""Steamboat Willie"" was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons. It became the most popular cartoon of its day. For much of 1928, Warner"
"on story development alone, which proved its worth when the Disney studio released in 1933 the first-ever animated short to feature well-developed characters, ""Three Little Pigs"". In 1935, Tex Avery released his first film with Warner Brothers. Avery's style was notably fast-paced, violent, and satirical, with a slapstick sensibility. Many consider Walt Disney's 1937 ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" the first animated feature film, though at least seven films were released earlier. However, Disney's film was the first one completely made using hand-drawn animation. The previous seven films, of which only four survive, were made using cutout, silhouette or"
"an exclusive contract with Technicolor (through the end of 1935) to produce cartoons in color, beginning with ""Flowers and Trees"" (1932). Disney released cartoons through Powers' Celebrity Pictures (1928–1930), Columbia Pictures (1930–1932), and United Artists (1932–1937). The popularity of the Mickey Mouse series allowed Disney to plan for his first feature-length animation. The feature film ""Walt Before Mickey"", based on the book by Diane Disney Miller, featured these moments in the studio's history. Deciding to push the boundaries of animation even further, Disney began production of his first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, ""Snow White"
"Lion King"" (US, 1994), ""The Prince of Egypt"" (US, 1998), ""Akira"" (Japan, 1988), ""Spirited Away"" (Japan, 2001), ""The Triplets of Belleville"" (France, 2003), and ""The Secret of Kells"" (Irish-French-Belgian, 2009). Full animation refers to the process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films that regularly use detailed drawings and plausible movement, having a smooth animation. Fully animated films can be made in a variety of styles, from more realistically animated works like those produced by the Walt Disney studio (""The Little Mermaid"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""Aladdin"", ""The Lion King"") to the more 'cartoon' styles of the Warner Bros. animation studio."
"was created. After ""Project Little Man"", the Imagineering team at Disney's first project was a ""Chinese Head"" which was on display in the lobby of their office. Customers could ask the head questions and it would reply with words of wisdom. The eyes blinked and its mouth opened and closed. The Walt Disney Production company started using animatronics in 1955 for Disneyland's ride, the Jungle Cruise, and later for its attraction Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room which featured animatronic Enchanted Tiki Birds. The first fully completed human audio-animatronic figure was Abraham Lincoln, created by Walt Disney in 1964 for the"
"scene during its first release. Disney then directed Winkler Studios, his distributor, to cut the scene from any further U.S. releases. The only remnant of the scene in the United States is two frames in which Pete’s whiskey bottle is still visible. Alice Solves the Puzzle Alice Solves the Puzzle is a 1925 animated short film produced and directed by Walt Disney in the Alice Comedies series, notable for being the first film to feature Pete, the longest-recurring Disney character. The film is also notable for being one of the first animated films to have been heavily censored. A girl"
"was ""Gertie the Dinosaur"" (1914) by Winsor McCay. It is considered the first example of true character animation. At first, animated cartoons were black-and-white and silent. Felix the Cat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit are notable examples. From the 1920s to 1960s, theatrical cartoons were produced in huge numbers, and usually shown before a feature film in a movie theater. Disney (distributed by Pat Powers, then Columbia, then United Artists, then RKO, then independently), Fleischer (distributed by Paramount), Warner Bros., MGM, and UPA (distributed by Columbia) were the largest studios producing these 5- to 10-minute ""shorts."" Other studios included Walter"
"Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy. The name ""Mickey Mouse"" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but"
"decade by unveiling, in 1929, the first all-color, all-talking feature film, ""On with the Show"". Cartoon shorts were popular in movie theaters during this time. In the late 1920s, Walt Disney emerged. Mickey Mouse made his debut in ""Steamboat Willie"" on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City. Mickey would go on to star in more than 120 cartoon shorts, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other specials. This would jump-start Disney and lead to creation of other characters going into the 1930s. Oswald, a character created by Disney, before Mickey, in 1927, was contracted by Universal"
"regained their popularity, with Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, ""Toy Story"", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became"
"past"". The only film not included in this collection was the subsequently released ""Get a Horse!"" (2013) which first premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was shown ahead of ""Frozen"". Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and"
"partially redesigned for Technicolor later that year. In 1937, Disney invented the multiplane camera, which gave an illusion of depth to the animated world. He first used this on the Silly Symphony cartoon ""The Old Mill"". Much of Disney's work was heavily influenced by European stories and myths, and the work of illustrators such as Doré and Busch. Also in 1937, Disney changed distributors to RKO Radio Pictures and remained under distribution until the early 1950s. In 1937, Walt Disney produced ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", the first American feature-length animated film. This was the culmination of four years"
"(1951), ""Peter Pan"" (1953), ""Lady and the Tramp"" (1955), ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959), ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961), ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), ""The Aristocats"" (1970), ""The Rescuers"" (1977), and ""The Fox and the Hound"" (1981). The animation for ""The Black Cauldron"" (1985) was the last to be completed at the site. The Animation Building initially served as the creative and administrative nucleus for the entire studio. Walt's brother Roy O. Disney, who ran the company's financial operations, shared a wing with the accounting and legal departments on the first floor, which was where the animators, in-betweeners and clean-up artists worked."
"that the cartoon started production as an Oswald entry. ""Plane Crazy"" (as well as ""Steamboat Willie"") has been released as part of the ""Walt Disney Treasures"" DVD collections twice: Plane Crazy Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released in 1928 by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first creation of the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound"
"match with a live kitten. In a variation from this and inspired to do so Walt Disney's first directorial efforts, years before Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was born in 1927 and Mickey Mouse in 1928, were the live-action animated ""Alice Comedies"" cartoons, in which a young live-action girl named Alice interacted with animated cartoon characters. Many previous films combining live action with stop-motion animation using back projection, such as Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen films in the United States, and Aleksandr Ptushko, Karel Zeman and more recently Jan Švankmajer in Eastern Europe. The first feature film to do this was"
"from its ten-year exile to Glendale. A 240,000-square-foot building designed by Robert A. M. Stern opened across the street from the main Disney lot in Burbank on December 16, 1994. In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to create ""Toy Story"", Disney's first fully computer-animated film. The next Disney animated film, 1995's ""Pocahontas"", opened to mixed reviews, though it still earned $346 million worldwide and garnered two Academy Awards for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song for ""Colors of the Wind."" The following year, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", Disney's first animated film produced at a budget"
"a feature-length animated film.There was some difficulty that came with doing this, however. Reiniger is quoted as saying ""We had to think twice. This was a never heard of thing. Animated films were supposed to make people roar with laughter, and nobody had dared to entertain an audience with them for more than ten minutes. Everybody to whom we talked in the industry about the proposition was horrified."" The result was ""The Adventures of Prince Achmed"", completed in 1926, one of the first animated feature films, with a plot that is a pastiche of stories from ""One Thousand and One"
"world's first animated feature film. The movie, which had been a major gamble for the Walt Disney studio became a huge artistic and financial success and lead to a series of pioneering animation features. He went on to do layout on six short films and was then put in charge of pre-production layout for Bambi. In preparation, he learned how to use the studio's huge new multiplane camera used for the panoramas through the woods. He was proud of the work done at the studio. Many artists had worked long unpaid hours on Snow White. Instead of overtime pay, the"
"by Walter Ruttman, Hans Richter, and Oskar Fischinger, however, the Nazis censorship against so-called ""degenerate art"" prevented the abstract animation from developing after 1933. The earliest surviving animated feature film is the 1926 silhouette-animated ""Adventures of Prince Achmed"", which used colour-tinted film. It was directed by German Lotte Reiniger and French/Hungarian Berthold Bartosch. In 1923, a studio called Laugh-O-Grams went bankrupt and its owner, Walt Disney, opened a new studio in Los Angeles. Disney's first project was the ""Alice Comedies"" series, which featured a live action girl interacting with numerous cartoon characters. Disney's first notable breakthrough was 1928's ""Steamboat Willie"","
"series as ""The Golden Girls"" and ""Home Improvement"". Katzenberg was also charged with turning around Disney's ailing Feature Animation unit, creating some intrastudio controversy when he personally edited twelve minutes out of a completed Disney animated feature, ""The Black Cauldron"" (1985), shortly after joining the company. Under his management, the animation department eventually began creating some of Disney's most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features. These films include ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991)—which was the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture—""Aladdin"" (1992), and"
"My Heart"" (1948) featured animated segments, while the ""True-Life Adventures"" series, which included such films as ""Seal Island"" (1948) and ""The Vanishing Prairie"" (1954), were also popular. Eight of the films in the series won Academy Awards. The release of ""Cinderella"" in 1950 proved that feature-length animation could still succeed in the marketplace. Other releases of the period included ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951) and ""Peter Pan"" (1953), both in production before the war began, and Disney's first all-live action feature, ""Treasure Island"" (1950). Other early all-live-action Disney films included ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952), ""The"
"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"
"beginning with the one-hour Christmas special, ""One Hour in Wonderland"". This was followed by the 1951 Christmas special, ""The Walt Disney Christmas Show"", the long-running (1954–2008) anthology series, ""The Wonderful World of Disney"" (which was Disney's first regular series as a whole), the children's variety show ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", and the 1957-1959 adventure series, ""Zorro"". However, one element was missing from Disney's expansion into television: An original animated television series. Until the early 80's, the studio had never produced its own original animated shows in-house, because Walt Disney felt it was economically impossible. Nearly all pre-1985 TV animation was"
"first of a series of blockbusters that would be released over the next decade by Walt Disney Feature Animation, a period later designated by the term Disney Renaissance. Accompanied in theaters by the Mickey Mouse featurette ""The Prince and the Pauper"", ""The Rescuers Down Under"" (1990) was Disney's first animated feature sequel and the studio's first film to be fully colored and composited via computer using the CAPS/ink & paint system. However, the film did not duplicate the success of ""The Little Mermaid"". The next Disney animated feature, ""Beauty and the Beast"", had begun production in London but was moved"
"Steamboat Willie Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, although both the characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of ""Plane Crazy"". ""Steamboat Willie"" was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed because Walt Disney, having seen ""The Jazz Singer"", had committed himself to producing one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons."
"Barney Bear, and the first animated adaptation of Superman, Casper and Little Lulu, among others. Feature length animation also began during this period, most notably with Walt Disney's first films: ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"", ""Dumbo"" and ""Bambi"". Also began animation on television with the first animated series from 1949 to the early 1960s. Walt Disney decided to become a newspaper cartoonist drawing political caricatures and comic strips. However nobody would hire Disney, so his older brother Roy, who was working as a banker at the time, got him a job at the ""Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio"" where"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"
"Hawaiian Holiday ""Not to be confused with ""Hawaiian Vacation"", a Pixar short."" Hawaiian Holiday is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon stars an ensemble cast of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy while vacationing in Hawaii (then a territory of the United States). The film was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, produced by John Sutherland and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Pinto Colvig as Goofy and Pluto. It was Disney's first film to"
"evolution of the fairy tale film. Some of the earliest short silent films from the Disney studio were based on fairy tales, and some fairy tales were adapted into shorts in the musical comedy series ""Silly Symphony"", such as ""Three Little Pigs"". Walt Disney's first feature-length film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", released in 1937, was a ground-breaking film for fairy tales and, indeed, fantasy in general. Disney and his creative successors have returned to traditional and literary fairy tales numerous times with films such as ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959) and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991). Disney's influence"
"Mermaid"", Disney's first animated fairy tale since ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959), is an important film in animation history for many reasons. Chief among these are its re-establishment of animation as a profitable venture for The Walt Disney Company, as the company's theme parks, television productions, and live-action features had overshadowed the animated output since the 1950s. ""Mermaid"" was the second film, following ""Oliver & Company"", produced after Disney began expanding its animated output following its successful live action/animated film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", and became Disney's first animated major box office and critical hit since ""The Rescuers"" in 1977. Walt Disney"
"Robin Hood (1973 film) Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions which was first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. As the twenty-first Disney animated feature film, the story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian. The idea to adapt ""Robin Hood"" into an animated feature dated back to Walt Disney's interest in the tale of Reynard the Fox during production of ""Snow White"
"a pilot for the ""Aladdin"" television show spin-off, was the first of these productions. Walt Disney Feature Animation was also heavily involved in the adaptations of both ""Beauty and the Beast"" in 1994 and ""The Lion King"" in 1997 into Broadway musicals. Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Disney story team were heavily involved in the development and production of ""Toy Story"", the first fully computer-animated feature ever produced. ""Toy Story"" was produced for Disney by Pixar and directed by former Disney animator John Lasseter, whom Peter Schneider had unsuccessfully tried to hire back after his success with Pixar shorts such as"