The abstract fantasy made so much sense at a time when most things were confusing as hell. Adults acted wacky, angry, sweet, and vacant. The world wasn’t ours, but the pieces felt familiar. As a kid, Alice’s journey was an animated film drawn from my perspective. For adults, the bright colors, a cookie cutter ’50s soundtrack, and the clouds billowing from Caterpillar’s hookah swirl together like a dream. Walt Disney’s passion project has a reputation as a psychedelic trip. The movie that I saw fewer times, but captured my imagination then and to this day, is Alice in Wonderland. Maybe my parents wanted me to fall asleep. So we asked the staff: which of the animated movies sticks with you most today? With Disney Plus unlocking the vault for the first time, we got a little nostalgic to name the ones we devoured upon first discovery, and fondly remember today.ĭisney Animation Alice in Wonderland (1951)ĭisney’s 1973 Robin Hood was a go to for me, but these days I find it. Those memories of “Disney magic,” when disparate craftsmanship coalesces into 24-frames-a-second cinema, are hard to shake.Īs animation fans, many of us at Polygon either basked in the theatrical glow of Disney animated releases, turned VHS tapes to dust, flocked to YouTube to relive the musical numbers, or are guilty of a little of everything. In a film like 101 Dalmatians, the intricacies of xerography only reveal themselves as living caricatures and ink-spotted puppy dogs. When Cinderella’s ragged clothes transform into a ball gown, the meticulous illustration that pulls off the effect - a defining achievement for the artists involved - simply renders as swirling pixie dust. That doesn’t dawn on you when you sit down to watch Bambi or Peter Pan or The Little Mermaid. Disney’s animated films were ahead of curve (while also being the curve) for most of the 20th century. The company would go on to blend live-action and animation, re-engineer the entire workflow process to make artist brushstrokes more tangible, and in the 1990s, introduce the revolution of computer animation. Twenty years later, Sleeping Beauty melted the minds of theater-goers with state-of-the-art 70mm projection. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first-ever feature-length animated film in 1939. Disney Animation became synonymous with American animation through technical wonder.
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