Almost 24 years ago, in November 1995, audiences flocked to the movie theater to see a new kind of animated film: one not drawn by hand, but created entirely within a computer. While some may have gone due to the…
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Princess Iron Fan: Asia’s First Full-Length Animated Feature
by Pamela O'Brien • April 16, 2018 • 1 Comment
Created during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tiě shàn gōngzhǔ (Princess Iron Fan, 1941, by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming) was the first full-length animated feature film made in China, as well as the first in Asia. Princess Iron…
Dwarfland: The Premier of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by Pamela O'Brien • December 4, 2017 • 3 Comments
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, or “Disney’s folly” as critics called it, was the Walt Disney Company’s first animated feature-film, but with a budget of over $1.5 million it was in no way a sure success. Walt, however, was…