Disney's Middle Ages takes on tales and events set roughly between 500 and 1500, and remixes them for today's audiences. Disney's Middle Ages is also deeply tied to the tradition of 19th-century fairy tales, most notably those of the Brothers Grimm (first published in 1812).
The “Dark Age” is an unofficial term used to describe Disney from the 1970s to the 1980s. After the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the company was in disarray and began to struggle financially. Their animated films surprisingly began to underperform as the market declined in relevance.
The golden era began with the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, putting Walt Disney Productions on the international map and proving that animation had great potential outside the realm of 5-minute cartoon gag reels. Walt Disney and his team elevated hand-drawn animation to the status of art with life ...
Since the death of its founder in 1966, the Disney Company has produced other features set in the Middle Ages such as Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Robin Hood (1973) and Tangled (2010)--this last a version of the Rapunzel legend.
The Experimental Era was just that – experimental. Disney was in a good place financially and with fans and wanted to see what new stories would connect with audiences.
Disney animated movies are commonly categorized into eras, and while some resources might categorize them a little differently, most fans generally agree on the following eras: The Golden Age (1937 – 1942) The Package Era (1942 – 1949) The Silver Age (1950 – 1959)
The Disney Renaissance was a period from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films. These were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, similar to the films produced during the era of Walt Disney from the 1930s to 1960s.
The story of "The Little Mermaid" takes in the mid-1800s, predominantly, in three different locations: the underwater kingdom, the Prince's palace, and the sea witch's dwelling. The little mermaid travels between these three places throughout the story.
Sure, it's a fairytale, but it feels pretty medieval to us. Plot: Sleeping Beauty is based on a tale that finds its early origins in a 14th-century romance text, filtered through the 17th-century French author Charles Perrault and, of course, the Brothers Grimm.
100 Years of Storytelling. In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pioneering a new form of family entertainment.
The era of Disney films from 1989 to 1999 - dubbed the Disney Renaissance - was a magical decade when Walt Disney Animation Studios returned to its roots of making musical, animated adaptions of well-known classic stories after putting out flop after flop for decades.
Arguably the darkest film in the entire Disney animated canon is the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The movie opens with Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother and attempting to kill an infant Quasimodo before he's forced to stop. He attempts to atone for the sin of murdering Quasimodo's mother by taking the boy in.
And then we come to The Princess and the Frog, the first time truly African American characters appear in a Disney animated film. They did a great job with the story and hiring wonderful African American actors.
30 years ago, The Little Mermaid saved a film studio and revolutionized what a Disney film could be. Here's how that happened. It's been nearly 30 years since The Little Mermaid swam into theaters on November 17, 1989, ushering in a new era for Walt Disney animated films.
Rather, Ursula's appearance is radically different from her family, and she sports tentacles that look like a permanent black dress. It's possible Ursula is not a mermaid in appearance because she and Triton did not have the same mother or father. If they're half siblings, Ursula's tentacles make more sense.
While it is known that her mother perished, there is no story attached to the event. However, much later, in 2008, an animated The Little Mermaid prequel revealed that Ariel's mother was crushed by a pirate ship during an altercation between humans and merpeople.
Ariel's story really begins in Ancient Greece. According to lore, she is a nereid, one of the dozens of daughters of the sea-god Triton. This isn't the first time that the internet has been set alight over the suggestion that famous figures of antiquity could be anything but white.
That's right — it's been one hundred years of timeless, memorable stories. To commemorate the occasion, the "Disney 100 Years of Wonder" celebrates the company's rich history of magic and storytelling.
This Oct. 16 marks the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. With over 200,000 employees and a market capitalization exceeding $150 billion, it is one of most successful and influential media conglomerates in the world.
The last live-action film that Walt was involved with and produced was The Happiest Millionaire. Production began at the beginning of 1966 and the film was released June 23rd, 1967. Follow Me, Boys! was the last film that was released by the studio before Walt's death, on December 1st, 1966.
Walt and Roy founded Disney Brothers Studio on October 16, 1923, to produce the films. In January 1926, the Disney studio on Hyperion Street was completed, and Disney Brothers Studio's name was changed to Walt Disney Studio.
Walt Disney signs a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies. The year marks the start of The Walt Disney Company, first known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.
1929 Walt launches “Silly Symphonies,” a series of cartoons that combine music and animation. 1930 Roy and Walt Disney license Mickey-‐related merchandising. 1931 Membership in the Mickey Mouse Club passes one million people.
