Film Class: Animated Musical

1.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1937 Disney film

Overview: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers ...

Release date: 21 December 1937

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Director: William Cottrell, David Hand

Cast: Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.

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Animated films about witchcraft 53T

Animated films about royalty 38T

Animated films based on Snow White 10T

2.

Pinocchio

1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney based on the Carlo Collodi story

Overview: Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Loosely based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel The Ad ...

Release date: 7 February 1940

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical

Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee

Cast: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Don Brodie, Stuart Buchanan, Walter Catlett, Marion Darlington

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

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Animated films about shapeshifting 8T

American animated feature films 68T

1940s English-language films 3,645T

3.

Mulan

1998 film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

Overview: Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the film was ...

Release date: 5 June 1998

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, War

Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook

Cast: Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Fierstein, Freda Foh Shen, June Foray, James Hong, Miriam Margolyes

Producer: Pam Coats, Robert S. Garber

Writer: Robert D. San Souci, Rita Hsiao

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

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Films about Hua Mulan 8T

American animated feature films 68T

1990s English-language films 3,888T

4.

Dumbo

1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney

Overview: Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl ...

Release date: 23 October 1941

Genre: Animation, Family, Music, Fantasy, Musical

Director: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson

Cast: Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Edward Brophy, Hall Johnson Choir, Cliff Edwards, Verna Felton

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

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Animation controversies in film 102T

1940s English-language films 3,644T

Animated films set in Florida 5T

5.

Aladdin

American animated musical fantasy film

Overview: Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the ...

Release date: 11 November 1992

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker

Cast: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried

Producer: Ron Clements, Donald W. Ernst

Writer: Ron Clements, John Musker

A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

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Animation controversies in film 102T

American animated feature films 68T

1990s English-language films 3,891T

6.

The Prince of Egypt

1998 film produced by DreamWorks Animation

Overview: The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The second feature film from DreamWorks and the first to be ...

Release date: 16 December 1998

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Biography, Fantasy

Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner

Cast: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover

Producer: Penney Finkelman Cox, P.J. Hanke

Writer: Philip LaZebnik, Nicholas Meyer

Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.

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Animation controversies in film 102T

Jewish films 28T

Films based on the Book of Exodus 17T

7.

The Little Mermaid

1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation

Overview: The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation in association with Silver Screen Partners IV and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is ...

Release date: 15 November 1989

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker

Cast: Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards, Buddy Hackett

Producer: Howard Ashman, Maureen Donley

Writer: John Musker, Ron Clements

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.

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Animated films about shapeshifting 8T

Animation controversies in film 102T

Walt Disney Pictures animated films 7T

8.

The Lion King

1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation

Overview: The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner ...

Release date: 15 June 1994

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Comedy

Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Matthew Broderick, Niketa Calame-Harris, Jim Cummings, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Guillaume

Producer: Alice Dewey Goldstone, Don Hahn

Writer: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts

Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.

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1994 American animated films 7T

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award–winning films 154T

Satellite Award–winning films 315T

9.

The Jungle Book

1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions

Overview: The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard ...

Release date: 18 October 1967

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Comedy

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

Cast: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Louis Prima

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

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American animated feature films 69T

1960s English-language films 3,136T

Animated films about monkeys 19T

10.

Pocahontas

American 1995 animated film

Overview: Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film ...

Release date: 15 June 1995

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, History, Musical, Romance, Adventure

Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg

Cast: Joe Baker, Christian Bale, Irene Bedard, Billy Connolly, James Apaumut Fall, Mel Gibson

Producer: Baker Bloodworth, James Pentecost

Writer: Carl Binder, Susannah Grant

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.

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Animation controversies in film 102T

American animated feature films 68T

Animated films based on actual events 7T

11.

Lady and the Tramp

1955 American animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney

Overview: Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated musical romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. Based on Ward Greene's 1945 Cosmopolitan ...

Release date: 16 June 1955

Genre: Animation, Family, Music, Romance, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson

Cast: Peggy Lee, Larry Roberts, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, George Givot, Lee Millar

Producer: Walt Disney, Erdman Penner

Writer: Ward Greene, Erdman Penner

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

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1950s English-language films 3,484T

American children's animated musical films 175T

Animated films about rats 37T

12.

Gnomeo & Juliet

computer-animated film loosely based on ''Romeo and Juliet''

Overview: Gnomeo & Juliet is a 2011 animated romantic comedy film directed by Kelly Asbury from a screenplay by Rob Sprackling and John Smith. It is loosely based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ...

Release date: 23 January 2011

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Kelly Asbury

Cast: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Ashley Jensen, Michael Caine, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings

Producer: Baker Bloodworth, David Furnish

Writer: Rob Sprackling, John R. Smith

Separated by a garden fence and a feud, are blue gnomes on one side and red gnomes on the other. This doesn't stop blue Gnomeo and red Juliet from falling ...

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2010s English-language films 2,909T

Canadian computer-animated films 28T

2010s British animated films 6T

13.

Corpse Bride

2005 British-American stop-motion-animated fantasy film

Overview: Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 gothic stop-motion animated musical fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson (in his directorial debut) and Tim Burton from a screenplay by ...

Release date: 7 September 2005

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Musical

Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley

Producer: Allison Abbate, Jeffrey Auerbach

Writer: Tim Burton, Carlos Grangel

When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her ...

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2005 children's films 25T

Animated films set in the 1870s 5T

Fiction about posthumous marriage 5T

14.

Cinderella

1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney

Overview: Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, it features supervision ...

Release date: 15 February 1950

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson

Cast: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald

Producer: Amy Bailey, Walt Disney

Writer: Charles Perrault, Bill Peet

When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from ...

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Films with screenplays by Winston Hibler 20T

American animated feature films 68T

1950s English-language films 3,487T

15.

Beauty and the Beast

1991 American animated musical fantasy romance film

Overview: Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the 1756 fairy tale by Jea ...

Release date: 13 November 1991

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Cast: Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, Angela Lansbury, Paige O'Hara, Jerry Orbach

Producer: Howard Ashman, Don Hahn

Writer: Linda Woolverton, Brenda Chapman

A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.

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Films with screenplays by Burny Mattinson 8T

Animated films about shapeshifting 10T

Walt Disney Pictures animated films 107T

16.

Bambi

1942 American animated Disney drama film directed by David Hand

Overview: Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, the production ...

Release date: 8 August 1942

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong

Cast: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn, Thelma Boardman, Janet Chapman

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Felix Salten, Perce Pearce

The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

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1940s English-language films 3,645T

Films about deer and moose 16T

Films about mother–son relationships 142T

17.

Anastasia

1997 American film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

Overview: Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical historical fantasy film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by the writing teams of Susan Gauthier and Bruce Graham, and ...

Release date: 14 November 1997

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

Cast: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters

Producer: Don Bluth, Maureen Donley

Writer: Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin ...

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Films shot in Phoenix, Arizona 1T

1990s English-language films 3,886T

Anastasia (franchise) 6T

18.

Alice in Wonderland

1951 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions

Overview: Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Ad ...

Release date: 26 July 1951

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson

Cast: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton

Producer: Walt Disney

Writer: Lewis Carroll, Winston Hibler

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

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Films with screenplays by Winston Hibler 20T

1950s English-language films 3,484T

1950s fantasy adventure films 36T

19.

Cómplices al rescate

Mexican TV series or program

Overview: Cómplices Al Rescate (English: Accomplices to the Rescue) is a Mexican children's-teen telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. It premiered on January 7, 2002, and ended on July 12, 2002.

Release date: 7 January 2002

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Alejandro Aragón, Adriana Barraza

Cast: Laura Flores, Francisco Gattorno, Belinda Peregrín, Norma Herrera, Daniela Luján, Manuel Saval

Producer: Eduardo Meza, Rosy Ocampo

Writer: Socorro González, Lourdes Barrios

This is the story of two twin sisters "Mariana Cantú" and "Silvana Del Valle". Silvana is taken away from her mother and sister ...

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Teen telenovelas 30T

Television series about siblings 140T

Children's telenovelas 73T

20.

The Rescuers

1977 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions

Overview: The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor respectively star as Bernard ...