The (Magical) Disney Renaissance | Finding a Winning Formula | History in the Dark

[@Stussmeister]

I was very fortunate to have grown up during the Disney Renaissance, and vividly remember watching these movies in theaters, classrooms, or at home. While it's (in my humble opinion) well nigh impossible to top "The Lion King," I'd say my two favorite films from this period are "Aladdin" and "Hercules", not because the protagonists are male but due to the fact that both rose up from very humble beginnings to do and achieve great things.

[@Tornado1994]

So did I. I was 6 when Little Mermaid was released.

[@AnimalsVehiclesAndMore]

I grew up during the 2000s era of Disney/Pixar, and that's another very iconic era of Disney's history due to films such as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Wall-E, Up, etc. being released to immense critical acclaim and success. However, there was also another part of the Disney era during the 2000s that's also very interesting, and that is the Disney/Baby Einstein Company partnership. Tons of DVDs and VHSs of films made for a preschool audience were released by the two companies' partnership and they were immensely successful. I used to have a ton of those DVDs when I was little (I watched them a lot). Speaking of little, Disney and the Baby Einstein Company also produced an animated TV series that was a huge part of my (and a lot of members of my generation's) early childhood, and that is Little Einsteins. Either way, the 2000s was still a hugely successful decade for Disney, and I would love to see you do videos about of those company partnerships and their successes.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

I haven’t even thought about some of those in a long time. Sort of was my early childhood also.

[@Silentgrace11]

It’s interesting seeing the ebbs and weaves of the Disney eras. They’re still some of my favorite go to’s, and not just because it’s one of the few things on Disney+ that isn’t inundated with commercials. Even while Frozen isn’t my jam because the story is full of holes, I can still commend it for being a structurally beautiful film. I just genuinely hope they do keep trying with the animation even with their recent flops, rather than trying to bank on the live action craze

[@franklinkz2451]

Bed knobs and broom sticks in my Disney fav movie when I was a kid

[@derekthelehighvalleyfoamer4427]

I was terrified to watch Hunchback of Notre-Dame for a while after seeing it once as a little kid. I saw it again pretty recently, and now it’s ironically kind of my favorite Disney film. The Rescuers Down Under is also great, imo.

[@orboakin8074]

This is my favorite era of Disney😊 Growing up as a kid in Nigeria in 2000, my parents bought me so many (bootlegged) VHS tapes (yeah, we had no internet😅) of the Renaissance movies and I loved watching them all. I also got the Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Robin Hood movies as well and still love them all to this day. Although, being bootlegged, there were issues😅 The Hercules VHS we got was dubbed entirely in Cantonese 😂😂 But I still enjoyed watching it a lot.

[@NationalGuard5]

As an avid Disney fan, I say the Renaissance was brilliant. Recently, their films, aside from the Lilo & Stitch live action movie coming up, have been box office bombs. Their parks are still doing well.

[@orboakin8074]

10:46 Didn't know you were a fellow fan of City Hunter 😀 I am still relatively new to anime but it is my favorite retro anime show, besides 79 Gundam.

[@andrewbowen4544]

I loved Lion King and Toy Story

[@candycrushhater5828]

Honestly Darkness, I think you’d have a great time doing a video for Don Bluth and his studio. Using former Disney animators, they made quality films that were arguably better than Disney’s, but once Disney found their footing again with the Renaissance, Don Bluth kind of went into a downward spiral before they collapsed. Also, talk about Carolco Pictures. I’ve been requesting that for a while.

[@ericwillcoxen7856]

My three favorite early Disney Renaissance movies are Aladdin (my parents took me when I was a month old to see it, it came out in November for 1992, and I was born in October of 1992), The Little Mermaid, my sister and I would watch it all the time, and The Lion King, well, do I even need a reason. Well I guess one reason would be James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and just because its a great movie.

[@albear972]

8:34 *What? me worry?*

[@jonesinator47]

1:32 Don Bluth anyone?

[@DiamondKingStudios]

My mother had two of his films on DVD when I was a kid: _An American Tail_ and _Anastasia._ When I was young it was easy to lump them in with Disney’s more obscure 1980s/1990s, with a similar degree of strangeness to _The Great Mouse Detective_ and _Atlantis: The Lost Empire_ (two more she had), but I could tell something else was different. It wasn’t until around when I got into college that I found out about Don Bluth’s animation studio. Frankly I wish he was able to keep it going and set it up as a contender to Disney in the 2D animation realm, maybe even going against Dreamworks after a later leadership change. I would have wanted to see it as a bridge between Disney and Studio Ghibli. Don Bluth, last I checked, is still alive at 87 and as passionate as ever with traditional 2D animation, though his presence is mostly online nowadays.

[@haydendegrow945]

As a kid who grew up during the Renaissance, these movies all hold a deep space in my heart. My personal favs are Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Tarzan. Every movie during this time has also produced my favourite Disney songs, which yes, I sing along to regularly. Gotta have fun somehow!

[@evangaines2303]

As a kid who was born in 2002, I remember watching many of Disney's Renaissance Films, when I was little. I thought, they were amazing, compared to watch comes out of Disney nowadays. Which is complete Dogshit. Good times.

[@Jared-91]

Damn I was a child during this era. These movies were great. I recently rewatched Beauty & The Beast. Brilliant movie! I think Disney is kind of shooting themselves in the foot these days.

[@jamesmiller206]

You should talk about disneys marsupilami because the shitshow of that production was a very interesting tale of how disney bought the rights of a popular Belgium comic because they wanted to expand thier popular character roster only to bury it as soon as the disney renesance started. The fact that the actual show was not at all accurate to the source material was ironically the least interesting part of the story because the situation got so bad the creator of marsupilami sued disney and actually won.

[@41moose]

Nightmare doesn’t count for anything. They bought it later after it blew up.

[@Halalmeat5000rh]

Ron Miller.

[@harrisonallen651]

Disney has truly lost it’s touch

[@RobloxMiner26]

disney adults are sub human

[@LatitudeSky]

Grew up with Disney in the 70s. Never seen any of the renessance movies. It's hilarious to me that Empereors New Groove doesn’t count because it didn't have songs. No songs? Is THAT what defines a Disney film; whether it has song routines? What kind of bull is that? What happened to just making movies? If they all have to have songs, where is the originality? There is none. This so-called renessance period is filled with cookie cutter movies designed to make money, all other goals be damned. But it's fine because things like anime are unafraid to take the risks and do animation a different way. The way Disney corp is doing its absolute best to crash and burn, and the animation unions push to drive themselves out of a job, Disney animation will be lucky to exist at all in 10 years.

[@daveme3582]

I grew up in the 80s-90s when disney still seemed to actually want to stay true to their roots. So sad to see them bending to the groomers of the lgbt movement these days. Ive no sympathy for them nor do hope to see them rise from these ashes if that is where their priorities lie.

[@felman87]

If anyone deserves to make it to 100k subs by year's end, it's you HitD (HiD? HD?). I don't think I've seen a more prolific poster that also delivered quality content.