Disney Animated Sequences You Re-watched Without Noticing!

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Back in the day, before fancy computer graphics, and technology that made everything a whole lot easier, animated movies were pretty much hand drawn, frame by frame. This meant that the whole process took quite a long time. And with deadlines and bosses breathing down their necks, animators would have to use whatever tricks they could to speed up production. One trick in particular (which we're focusing on in this video) was the clever idea to trace over old animated footage from other movies, hoping that no one would notice.
Unfortunately for them, we did notice.
So here are 10 Times Disney Reused Scenes From Other Movies to Cut Corners!
1) The Fox and the Hound
It's an emotional tale.
But we're not here to focus on that right now. We're here to point out this one scene that was reused from Bambi. And in order to disguise it a bit, they cleaned it up and flipped it horizontally. So let's just un-flip it and see... Yup, definitely the same.
2) 101 Dalmations
There is one scene that was definitely reused. And that's the scene where we see the Elizabeth Tower (otherwise known as 'Big Ben', which is actually the name of the bell, but anyway...). It's the exact same scene used in Peter Pan, just slightly rotated and zoomed out a bit...and without Peter Pan...Obviously.
3) Robin Hood
Perhaps the most recognizable copied scenes are of little John dancing.
Forgetting the fact that he's basically a version of Baloo from 'The Jungle Book' but with clothes on, he seems to know all of Baloo's moves, exactly...frame by frame.
4) The Sword in the Stone
In the 1963 movie 'The Sword in the Stone', animators used footage from an animated short called 'The Truth About Mother Goose'. And maybe they thought that with it being an animated short, it would be harder to detect? The only problem is that instead of simply flipping or cutting out some shots in order to disguise it a bit, they just copied the whole scene, shot by shot.
5) The Rescuers
Perhaps a more familiar scene is the scene where Penny tries to escape. As she appears to have the exact same movement as Mowgli from 'The Jungle Book'
6) The Rescuers Down Under
If viewers were feeling a sense of 'Déjà vu' while watching this movie, it was probably because they were simply watching recycled scenes that were taken from the original 1977 movie 'The Rescuers', 16 years earlier. The best example can be seen during Orville's takeoff. It looks exactly the same, as do the reactions from the characters. The only main difference being the background.
7) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Poo
In this Disney movie, the character Christopher Robin has quite a resemblance to Mowgli from 'The Jungle Book'. And maybe it's just because he's of a similar age or that he just seems to do the same things as Mowgli. Or maybe they've traced over entire scenes of Mowgli to save themselves time in not having to recreate the characters movement. Yeh, that'll be it.
8) Alice in Wonderland
When the walrus is in the water, luring the oysters away we see groups of fish coming onto the shot. But if you look carefully you can see that the fish have actually been lifted from an underwater scene in the 1940 movie 'Pinocchio'.
9) Beauty and the Beast
Maybe they just couldn't help themselves because in the final dance scene it appears they've traced over the dance scene from 'Sleeping Beauty', or at least copied it frame by frame.
10) The Jungle Book
This movie has also borrowed scenes all over the place. Like this shot of Bambi, I mean a random deer. Or these little wolf pups wagging their tails, that has clearly been traced from a scene in '101 Dalmations'.
And these wolves that hug Mowgli? They're right out of 'The Sword in the Stone'.
So there you have it, which copycat scenes surprised you the most? Leave it in the comment section below.
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[@mosacanite4533]

I started noticing when I was 10 years old when I noticed, but NO ONE BELIEVED ME!! I’m over it now 😂

[@cheatlngg1945]

Sould've wrote They called me a madman

[@mosacanite4533]

@@cheatlngg1945 RIGHT! Now everybody sees what we noticed 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@StrangerBlocks]

@@cheatlngg1945 was just about to comment this

[@robfriedrich2822]

When the movies were made, they were only accessible in cinema and also not always. So nobody could compare and notice the reuse of animations

[@kevinlennox7539]

Not to mention Disney was almost bankrupt during some of these movies' creations. It made sense to cut corners.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@kevinlennox7539 and also disney would rather use their money to make better animated scenes

[@Dullfang2]

Tony stark: 'thought we wouldn't notice, but we did'

[@The1Rashid]

Hope this comment blows up

[@Jenniferraum]

😂😂

[@alanm.335]

Good one. 👌

[@michaeljohn5130]

"Thought we wouldn't notice, and we didn't"

[@Minillus]

Galaga man, best MCU character ever

[@032319581]

Baloo and Little John were very obvious, but I never realized they drew over the others. Saw similarities, but not so obvious.

[@Vaporvice84]

When I was a little kid back in the 80's, I did notice 1 or 2 shots from Disney films that looked the same but with different characters. To be fair, before videotape came around in the early 80's, once a movie was no longer in theaters, you never saw it again unless it was aired on tv. Also, no social media, so people who noticed things like this could only tell people they knew. Postscript: in an interview with someone who worked at Disney a long time ago, he said that the effort to locate those films cells in the archives was so time consuming that it would've been faster and cheaper to simply draw new animation from scratch instead of copying/tracing the old ones.

[@rachelh5211]

All things being equal, maybe that's true. But I'm thinking they possibly hired the lower paid employees to locate the cells and duplicate them instead of having to pay the skilled artists.

[@gomogo2000]

No worries here! Just makes me love some of my favorite Disney movies even more...knowing they are interconnected like this.

[@Interestingenough4]

In "The Jungle Book," some of the animation in the chaos scene in King Louie's temple is directly lifted from "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad," when Mr. Toad and his friends are battling the weasels for the deed to Mr. Toad's mansion.

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

And the headless horseman s horse is similar to another horse

[@joeberryman3563]

There was a scene in Robin Hood where an elephant gets his trunk grabbed mid blow in the same manner as another in Jungle Book.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

Making animated movies is hard, and there's never enough time, so I don't blame them for cutting corners where they could get away with it.

[@fernandogamez7463]

I didn't know that the jousting scene of the Sword in the Stone was actually entirely reused from the Mother Goose short.

[@lalochivafan]

Someone had interviewed a Disney animator that worked with them back in the 70’s, he mentioned it never saved them money or time. it took them just as much time and money to have to go through the old archives and see exactly which scenes they could use, frame by frame, and then have to retrace most of the scene. This process would take days and in fact it would have been simpler just to draw a new scene. This was actually a decision of a manager at the time who was from the mentality of “why re-invent the wheel” and thought he could get away with it since these movies would only come out in cinema. It wasn’t until the advent of VHS where people really got the ability to watch movies multiple times from the comfort of their own home and started noticing these things.

[@generalmemeking334]

Yeah it just layed out the tracks for the train

[@erikharris3294]

Exactly right. They weren’t even doing well financially at the time of most of these movies if I do recall correctly.

[@phoenixthedutchie149]

Honestly I can’t blame them I do animation too not nearly the scale obviously but sometimes ya just gotta cut corners lmao

[@willdatsun]

The animation version of sampling

[@oneday5572]

The fact that it took us like 80 years to notice this...

[@CarlMahnke]

The big question is: Did they only copy from Disney works or also stole from foreign productions?

[@Matthew.Niverse]

Just their own works in their animation archives

[@russellhoyt588]

Like Lion King and Kimba.

[@karmabum21]

@@russellhoyt588 exactly what I thought of too

[@themeparkcutiefoodie2459]

Well done👏I thought I was going to see another copy of other videos but you got ones I have never seen.

[@pizzathefox8809]

Eh. It just saves them time and money. I don't really have an issue with it. (I would only have a problem with it if the scenes were copied, or traced from non disney movies. I hope they certainly didn't do that tho..)

[@l3vyy95]

I always noticed these even as a kid

[@romualdleou9506]

All of my fav Disney's classics. Undeniably the best era🐾🥀🦊👑👗🐁🧜‍♀️🧚‍♀️🏝♥️♠️♦️♣️... I also love Rapunzel and Frozen❄⛄... But old classics are and will always be the most heartwarming and pleasant to watch over and over... Gold era guys, gold era

[@yiklongtay6029]

You make it sound like such a sin. I think of it as a bonus easter egg

[@Austar7]

I remember first seeing the clock tower shot in 101 Dalmatians as a kid and I knew it was the same shot from Peter Pan.

[@mikesember1090]

I feel violated

[@tinablanco5697]

The one that surprised us the most was Beauty and the beast

[@checklistanimations2106]

And this is a bad thing? What's wrong with reusing content? They created it. If anything I think its fun

[@muhammadsoleh4725]

yea, it is fun but tracing animation/pictures is actually a bad thing

[@punkspockispunkrock]

@@muhammadsoleh4725 how so?

[@AdamMystery]

@@muhammadsoleh4725 its their own movies, they can literally do whatever they want

[@muhammadsoleh4725]

@@AdamMystery to me, they tracing scenes with no effort. They just copy the movement and change the background and done. That's why I think tracing is a bad thing

[@AdamMystery]

@@muhammadsoleh4725 well, with the introduce of 3d animation, they never do that again apparently💖

[@daniellegreenberg6481]

Shocking but cool!

[@job489]

Zootopia wasn't a "We re-watched without noticing", but they also use animator tricks for the final movie. The studio created and animated scenes for the original script (Nick building an amusement park and predators had the tame collars). When Disney said it was too dark, they had to change the movie. They made completely new scenes for the Zootopia movie but reused scenes already made for the original script - The chase scene with Judy and Duke was originally a chase scene of Judy chasing Nick; the waterfall scene and Nick getting nearly slashed by the panther - those animation sequences were drawn or animated in the original script with different backgrounds. They still use animator tricks today but haven't had to do so as often with computer-animated movies.

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

My 3 sisters and we’re very close in age and always owned these classic Disney vhs’s and we were first introduced to film techniques were recycled scenes from other previous Disney classics.

[@MichaelAarons1701]

It was a 13 year difference between _The Rescuers_ and its sequel (which didn’t have the word “From” in its title).

[@ezekielanderson9055]

This video took me down nostalgia road 😁

[@matthewmiller7207]

That same scene in The Fox & The Hound also reused the quail and its chicks running from the rain in Bambi, again flipped horizontally. And also some of the squirrel animation from The Sword in the Stone. And later on in the film's final act, one of the shots of Copper chasing Tod was recycled from the "Dog Chase Scene" in, ... you guessed it, Bambi.

[@tomm1222]

Good examples of working smarter not harder

[@KingofPepsi]

Wow, this is very interesting. I never did understand studios rushing artists beating a due date. You cannot rush art.

[@justinleong2589]

No wonder when I was a kid, I was thinking was it just me of having Deja vu on some of cartoon scene. Because I am sure I did not watch that before as I just bought that cartoon CD, but somehow seems very familiar.

[@AmericanPatriots87]

Back in the day, it didn't matter, but now that technology makes this so readily available, it becomes more noticeable.

[@ZC-Infinity]

What about how sword in the stone and 101 dalmatians have the same scene of a short guy accidentally bonking the tall guy behind him and the tall guys reacting the same way? Or how the birds with eggs from both Alice in Wonderland and Goliath II both panickedly catch their eggs and glare in the same way? Also, they use the same scene of someone getting ready to smash someone with a club only to hit the wrong guy in both Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book.

[@jordanmccallister7844]

"the fox and the houd"

[@boblangford5514]

There’s a whole lot more. In Winnie the Pooh, Piglet makes the same gesture multiple times, as does Pooh. During the “Heffalumps and Woozles” song, two animals are dancing together, and you can tell that their dance animation is reversed and then played forward again. In Aristocats, a scene where O’Malley rescues one of the cats and jumps onto the back of a truck is recycled from the end of 101 Dalmatians. And I think some of that jousting footage they used from Sword in the Stone was also used in Ichabod Crane.

[@oddholstensson212]

Brilliant recycling! I guess the animation reuse is much more used on wireframe level. It is hard and difficult to master the art of animation!

[@pkendlers]

There is also great time, research and money spent in animating original sequences. Since Disney already owned the rights to all their previous productions, it makes economic sense to recycle. It should be noted however that this intense recycling almost killed the public's interest in their animated movies... Until the Little Mermaid came along.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

You also forgot one scene in Sword in the Stone in which after Kay gets bonked on the noggin he exclaims "OH!" and clutches his head. The exact moment, right down to the voice, was copied from 101 Dalmatians when the same thing happens to Horace.

[@matthewmiller7207]

There was also another one. One of the shots of the wolf chasing the female squirrel was copied from Tramp chasing the rat in Lady & The Tramp.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

@@matthewmiller7207 I just remembered another one: When the chicken from Robin Hood stops the elephant trumpeter from trumpeting it was lifted to when General Hati did the same thing in the Jungle Book.

[@bobbythomas9603]

I think the scene of horses running toward the camera in number 4 is very similar to a scene in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[@colettebezio1913]

Nice! I noticed too, that Brother Bear copies the wildebeast scene from Lion King and the transformation scene from Beauty and the Beast.

[@MrZRACER]

That whale was scary as hell.

[@andrewbuchanan5617]

When I watch each Disney movies on vhs I noticed some of the scenes are look exactly the same and I was right.

[@carmelita.8860]

We definitely noticed

[@darkstarmoonshadow8892]

Ever since I was young watching Disney on VHS seemed to notice

[@aletaliente716]

Also in the sword in the stone and the jungle book , when Artu and mowgli are "face cleaned" by the dogs/wolves

[@ZC-Infinity]

They addressed that at the end.

[@SkiKoala]

The Rescuers FROM Down Under? Lol

[@PGRPhotog]

"Fox and the Houd"? Ok...

[@robertodilizio6225]

I didn't notice that. LOL

[@rock2600]

Nice

[@CassiusStelar]

"The Fox and the Houd"

[@RedForeman]

Lmao it’s even worse realizing how many of these I had on vhs as a kid they got me good

[@pkendlers]

They got your parents good - they're the ones who paid for the VHS tapes, right?

[@pixsea3183]

It's just a DisneyVerse !

[@andreweggleston4410]

Baloo the bear and Little John the bear acted and sounded the same they could have been related it just makes sense.

[@allanzulu6053]

Fame focus so wonderful cause you are able to see what other can't see keep it up I love it 😍

[@anthonymiller2032]

5:14 Welcome home

[@TheChapelx]

Small quibble but it's "The Rescuers Down Under"

[@davidfarmer2193]

I only recognized them in Robin Hood. :)

[@mariosk3466]

I used to have both "101 Dalmatians" and "The Aristocats" on VHS tapes. Every time I watched the scene with Edgard and Thomas O'Malley, i thought some frames were kinda familiar. And it turned out I was right

[@mybrotherjonathanisafreaka2798]

They recycle because it saves them money.

[@straightjacket308]

Yeah, but it kind of breaks the immersion. Not horribly, mind you, but a little disappointing.

[@WolfmanArt]

You forgot to mention a scene in the Fox and The Hound; where it showed a squirrel jumping onto a branch during the rain. It's Wart in his squirrel form from the Sword in the Stone

[@ryanmacinnis9535]

You forgot that the Jungle Book amicable and mr. Toad chasing scene

[@krafthund]

I always noticed that Baloo with the monkey and Little John with the chicken were dancing exactly the same way, as a child. Same with the dance of Lady Marian and the white cat of 101 Dalmatians. I remember noticing at the first viewing. EDIT: OMG! Now I understand why I always confused Bianca and Bernie with the other cartoon! Because of the scene where the seagull is taking off! That I never realized consciously! Just unconsciously.

[@semsho1071]

how smart

[@TheRuneSteen]

I noticed alot of these when i was kiddo. How can ppl not notice?

[@mayaguidicelli7601]

dont blame them, just remember that you have to do 12 drawings for 1s of animation and that a long film is 1hour. I'll let you do the calcul

[@AshArnoldEditing]

They cheated us and we didn't even notice

[@williamruiz5965]

I mean, all the movies with recycled animation are still good, sometimes even better, than the movies the animation was taken from. And it's their work, they can use the animation however they want.

[@AshArnoldEditing]

I’m not complaining, I grew up on most of these films, it wasn’t a dig.

[@mantizshrimp]

Right. The famous fox and houd

[@JemmiWijaya]

Wow just wow, you recognize all the scenes, superb! But I think thats still legal, because they re-use their own material for saving their time Once again, wow for you recognize all the scenes

[@crabbi_abbi]

Recently watched Beauty and the Beast again. I never realized a lot of scenes are from lion king.

[@RedForeman]

This just goes to show how easily it is to be manipulated by these shows and movies

[@adrianvelez3037]

Thought we wouldnt notice, just like you thought we wouldnt notice you saying two deers instead of two deer

[@marlawhite1430]

Filmation animation studios been doing this stuff too. One example He-Man recycling the same Monsters and characters again and again .

[@DutchNostalgia]

Didn’t anyone ever notice Penny’s cute face from the rescuers was sampled from Shanti’s face of the jungle book

[@intel386DX]

I have a feeling that in The Aristocats and 101 Dalmatians there are near the same scenes with blue in cats and green in dogs cars

[@ducksoup80]

The elephant trumpeting from Disney’s Robin Hood and Disney’s jungle book. Back in the 90s I noticed this as a kid in Robin Hood Tower tower gets collapsed and the elephant blew his trumpet and another character think it was the hen stopped him from trumpeting and in the jungle book The leader elephant when you noticed the man cup blow your trumpet three times the elephant blew his trumpet and was stopped making the same sound effect not now! then he responded sorry sir!

[@shortcut101]

Kimba the white lion

[@lust4lyfe101]

When I was young I noticed this very clearly , I guess cuz I watched so much Disney growing up and seen most of the films more then once .

[@saas8481]

Na bro I think you’ve gon an extraordinarily good memory if you noticed that as a child. I could remember scenes but never the actual animations. It’s an unique trait to remember things like that.

[@rikkiit452]

Reminds me of gaming company's these days selling us same stuff we have already paid for. Rip off merchants thats all they are.

[@DanIel-fl1vc]

Gaming companies who have been around for long have thousands of old assets that they can modify or improve upon as well as textures. Big series like Dark Souls, Assassin's creed, Far Cry. You're looking at the same assets arranged differently with some new ones added for each production. That is why the first installment in a series of games is most work and also why each game gets slightly better.

[@rikkiit452]

@@DanIel-fl1vc 👍🏻 nuke town on call of duty dose not seem to get any better tho i wonder how many more times they are going to colour the same map in 😂

[@Agaettis]

Oh I noticed as a kid lol

[@iuri4086]

There's also a scene in Beauty and the beast where the sugar pot looks exactly the same as the one in Sword in the Stone

[@cmvogt5951]

Anything but Hand Drawn is now Replaced with CGI which is Computer Animated.

[@itsohaya4096]

0:44 idk about y'all but idk what a HOUD is.

[@BALrider1Steve]

Dam had no idea

[@Amiinot]

No need to ruin my childhood please

[@TheLookyus]

0:44 You forgot "HOUND"!

[@rebeccashuman6199]

I didn’t know animation was the same sequence

[@acetown2263]

Just makes Disney that much more insidious lmao.

[@andrewmarasek620]

I think these are nods to other movies or maybe the same animators that worked on those same projects and just want to sneak in their previous work. I don't think it was a way to save money

[@WillScarlet16]

I noticed when I was six. But in fairness, the Disney animators never imagined something like home video would be invented.

[@rickyanthony]

We all been lied to.

[@tlw1950]

To me the most unforgivable are Maid Marian copying Snow White’s and Duchess’s dance moves exactly. No excuse for that. Their dances are iconic!

[@subtractingrat160]

They weren't just being lazy, or copying, these are all from the same studio; Disney. If you can't tell, all the movies they were referencing are pretty old. Back then, they had to hand draw their animations. Why totally create a new dance or tail wag, when a few years earlier you already made one that would fit perfectly?

[@theextramiles404]

You said fox and the houd, you need to change it to hound

[@joebridges1878]

Funny thing when tell people you see these movie scenes in different movies people think you are crazy. I see a lot of repeat plots also,,,

[@Packless1]

...work smart, not hard...! ;-) ...why inventing the wheel again...? :D ...and b.t.w... ...'recycling' is the buzzword today...! ;-)

[@Bardnet]

Upcycling!

[@far22186]

But how do they reuse them by having different skins essentially

[@geographymaster3273]

I love the jungle book

[@petebike]

Pretty bold claim! I noticed

[@Lightscribe225]

Oh I noticed. I just wondered why no one around me was saying anything

[@tiarrasmusic]

I like tracing! I wouldve done the same thing, lol

[@taralentz8215]

Music and whooshing sound remind me of Final Fantasy IX. .. talk about using the same stuff