The History of Walt Disney Animation Studios + (2/16) - Animation Lookback

How a strike, a war and a constant economic struggle made the 1940s Walt Disney’s toughest decade
Animated scenes by Logan Miller (ToucanLDM): / @toucanldm
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[@cartooncaleb24]

Hearing about the cancelled Mickey and the Beanstalk movie reminded me of Gigantic. Now I’m sad.

[@animationnerd2748]

In alternate universe the shorts from fun and fancy free and Ichabod and mr toad are their own movies 🎥

[@hamursh]

@@animationnerd2748 In another alternate universe Gigantic has already been released and has grossed $2 billion at the box office and critics loved it!

[@WolfmanArt]

Here's a fun fact about Bambi: He and his mother, or one another, will appear in later films. Bambi's mother appeared in The Jungle Book, they both appeared in The Rescuers, and Bambi's mother appeared in the first couple of seconds in Beauty and the Beast

[@kameronbiggs5495]

Next time on Animation Lookback...Walt's dreams reach sky high with the help of a fairy godmother reciting three magic words.

[@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley]

Bibidi Bobidi Boo!

[@SaraHouck461]

@@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley I actually paid homage to the post-credits scene for this chapter in this pic provided in the following link: www.deviantart.com/chippingchart66/art/Disney-Cinderella-Homage-798202695

[@facusmendoza1061]

Plus We're going to wonderland and neverland

[@Idellechi]

‘hunters were mad that the bambi movie painted them as villians…..’ *looks at tarzan* *looks over at fox and the hound* *looks back at beauty and the beast* *quickly glances at 101 dalmatians* well they got a point there.

[@ToonReel001]

It's not exactly a profession easy to depict heroically in a medium where cute cartoon animals tend make up a lot of the cast. Amusingly enough Walt himself was a hunter.

[@sketchygetchey8299]

Y’all go eat some protein

[@killingeveedits8228]

Well In my opinion it is just evil

[@FanimationXV]

"On the 2001 60th anniversary DVD of Dumbo, Disney revealed a trailer of a DTV sequel that was in development at the time. It was plan to be release in the mid-2000's, but was completely cancelled when DIsneyToon Studios was going under new management." "In 2006, Disney released a midquel called "Bambi II" that got a theatrical release in some countries, and was released straight to DVD." I had to add these since Animat forgot them.

[@austinreed7343]

Restaurants based on the package features are also found at the Magic Kingdom: Casey’s Corner, Pecos Bill Cafe, and Sleepy Hollow.

[@RockerMicke1]

6:28 That moment is the reason why I love this lookback I love ya animat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@m.syauqiabdurahman2798]

This Is Why Never Mess With Walt Disney

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

‘Then how did he get the car?!’ ‘The only thing a Gentleman gets his way.. The honest way!’ ‘And what is the honest way?’ ‘HA-HA I thought you knew that Governor!’ Got that out of the way.

[@michaelnally2841]

JamesTheBrony/JTB I love that line

[@marcusblackwell2372]

Wind In The Willows?

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

@@marcusblackwell2372 Well soft of.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

@@SegaNintendoGuy64 oh. Mr. Toad

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

@@marcusblackwell2372 Yeah.

[@mevb]

Fun fact about Smokey the Bear: He made an apperance in The Humphrey Bear cartoon In The Bag in the part where Humphrey started a fire to burn the trash he was tasked to get rid off but Smokey appears, put it out by stomping on it and delivers his famous phrase "Remember, only you can prevent forest fires" and leaves.

[@josephrowe849]

The brawl scene made me laugh. It looks like something done on South Park.

[@CCubedStudios]

Also at 6:37, was that Eddy’s scream from Ed, Edd n Eddy?

[@DanzigFan-vq3zf]

CCubedStudios When Walt Screamed. Nope. That was the Rage table scream off of Roblox. AHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHH

[@CCubedStudios]

Danzig Fan 2006 I meant the scream Art Babbit let out before being punched out by Walt and let out his Roblox scream

[@DanzigFan-vq3zf]

CCubedStudios I think so

[@quietdemon8138]

CCubedStudios I thought it was jacksepticeye 🤷‍♂️

[@potrelviewer9536]

20 years after my first viewing of Bambi, and that ONE gunshot still gets me, no matter what.

[@richardranke7878]

In the Salten book,there was a chapter about the animals all running when guns were sounding all around(first day of hunting season?) and after the day was over,surviving animals got together in a glen in the forrest. Bambi asked one deer,"Have you seen my mother?"The deer shook his head and turned away. The chapter's last words were,"Bambi never saw his mother again."

[@cheneethompson5756]

Bambi's cute little voice: mother? Mother?! Me: 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@TurboPro9952]

I Saw bambi and i forgot the gunshot.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Thoughts on the movies: Dumbo - The closest I ever came to crying in a movie until Lion King came along. The Three Caballeros - I love the first two segments and all of the characters. Ichabod and Mr. Toad - I don't know why but I never saw The Wind in the Willows segment, only Sleepy Hollow, which I loved especially Ichabod and his rival's designs. Never saw any of the others.

[@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing]

I had no idea that Bill Melendez, the director of many Charlie Brown shorts (and also provided the vocals for Snoopy and Woodstock), used to be on the animation team for Walt Disney, that’s cool.

[@papachillothezappey4050]

He also worked as an assistant animator and later on an animator on Bob Clampett's, Arthur Davis's, and Robert Mckimson's directed Looney Tunes shorts.

[@papachillothezappey4050]

He'd also later on worked at UPA.

[@Tornado1994]

@@papachillothezappey4050 He was hired after Ritchie Valens' Brother Bob Morales missed his Interview at Disney in 1958 after he had won a Cleanup Artist Contest.

[@alecfoisy58]

Alright, so here's a couple cents on the crows. 1: They never call the lead crow Jim ANYWHERE in the actual film, only in some of the scripts and storyboards. Official sources have called him Dandy Crow in more recent years. 2: As Disney's first black animator Floyd Norman pointed out, they're not based on flat stereotypes, but are meant to be parodies of black singers from the time like Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. (Like how the Jungle Book vultures were meant to be parodies of the Beatles.) If you listen to a Calloway or Armstrong record, you'll see a lot of the crows' dialogue such as the back and forth banter and the slang is completely accurate to how these singers talked.

[@alecfoisy58]

@kollie79 Pretty sure that rumor was debunked. Dumbo will still be on Disney+, probably with a disclaimer or something like that.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Alec Foisy Thank you! I did a post on the Disney Amino last year where I go into a bit deeper with it. If you would like the link to read it is at the end of this comment. I had to call it “Why The Crows from Dumbo are NOT Offensive”. I wanted to say “Racist”, but the app wouldn’t let me post it that way. aminoapps.com/p/vxmzu4

[@teddyfurstman1997]

I don’t think The Crows are not going to be cut out on the Disney+ Services.

[@teddyfurstman1997]

kollie79 I still the the Crowless versions of Dumbo are false.

[@SuperWolsey]

"To hell with what Norman says! I WANT MUH PRESIDENCY SO IM BANNING THAT SHIT!!" -Bob Iger

[@Karmy.]

Bambi is my all time favorite Disney movie followed by Emperor's New Groove and Meet the Robinsons

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Can we all appreciate the Walt segments in these vids. Their beautiful

[@eliassmeke3991]

Fun 🤩 Fact about Dumbo, Walt deliver the final film to RKO that September of 1941 and initially they hated it they suggested Walt either bulking up ⬆️ with more animation to make it a full-length feature, cut some animation out to make it a short or let them release it as a B-movie (release it alongside another film), Walt vehemently disagreed with all three options and he was allowed to release it as he had envisioned.

[@josephrowe849]

27:50 The giant turns into the Energizer bunny? Where's his drum and batteries so he can keep going and going and...

[@matthewn1566]

When all hope was lost for Disney in the 40's, a certain film brought them back on their feet.....

[@skullzproductions]

6:25 the best animation from Logan Miller yet :D

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

I most certainly agree with you.

[@DanzigFan-vq3zf]

And Walt’s Rage Table Scream and how he just Punched Melendez

[@scotttrail522]

The thing that makes Bambi's debut movie-- his ONLY movie, to be precise-- so precious is that while Snow White was the first ever feature-length Disney cartoon, Bambi's movie changed the way people look at animation, to this day. This is why I think Mickey Mouse and Bambi-- my nickname for them being "The Mouse and the Fawn"-- are the two most cartoon characters in animation history.

[@googamp32]

Not a fan of "Bambi 2", eh?

[@scotttrail522]

Oh, I like Bambi 2 as well.

[@hamursh]

I owned Fun and Fancy Free on VHS for a while and I just watched the two shorts without watching the rest.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Too bad you didn't mention that Dumbo was gonna have a sequel that brought back some of the original cast members before that was cancelled. Or the midquel to Bambi.

[@austinreed7343]

Igorowan There’s also a few things he didn’t bring up in the last one, but they generally aren’t as glaring as those.

[@jackiegonzalez6814]

Igorowan he mentioned that in a editorial video about Disney’s direct to video sequels.

[@gmanley1]

4:20-4:26 Gorilla: LET ME GO!!! (Bar falls off) Gorilla: Oops, I’ll fix it.

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

It's great to find out how these classics weren't received the best at first. And got there appreciation and respect over the years! Keep it up!

[@bartsimpson83]

Fun And Fancy Free is a personal favorite of mine. Whenever I'm feeling down, it never fails to put a smile on my face.

[@matthewjh138]

ToucanLDM Does a great job with the animated bits.

[@disneyfan8719]

ToucanLDM's animations 5:40-6:00 6:26-6:41 (one of the best 😂) 12:26-12:46 (Walt's screams 😂🤣) 20:25-20:44 (Lol, Art Babbitt was barking like a dog)

[@theggamer2824]

Rule One of being a Disney Princess 1. You cannot be a Disney princess unless one of your parents or relatives are killed.

[@elijahwatson3474]

Rapunzel, Merida, and Mulan disturb that balance.

[@cheneethompson5756]

And aurora

[@missspark4652]

OH THANK GOD, he cut out the scary Donald joke from the old version

[@filminspector6775]

That was such a lost opportunity

[@hunterolaughlin]

16:46 - 16:52 Elmer Fudd's response to how Bambi represents the hunting community as evil: "This is how weer wepwesented? Unbeweivable!"

[@animationnerd2748]

I didn’t know bill Melendez of peanuts fame work at Disney

[@papachillothezappey4050]

He also worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons and UPA.

[@josephzielinski8817]

Pacific War has begun. The US Navy was under attacked and destroyed by Japan on Sunday morning December 7th, 1941. After that, respectively 1943 to 1949 as well as an animated package films produced by RKO Radio Pictures, during 1940s decade.

[@bendalymckenna6271]

ElectricDragon505 , thank you for updating your video from 10 years ago and adding more depth into the history.

[@mickeymouseamphibiabfdifan5667]

6:30 Well, that was insane. O_O

[@4569packers]

So can we all agree that it is canon that Donald Duck was the hunter who killed Bambi's mom

[@KaminoKatie]

That would've been darkly hilarious

[@RationalRyan]

27:06 - 27:16 Jesus, that was like the "wrong sounding muppets" gag on Family Guy.

[@MTRZ97]

Yeah, it sounds very sad. He shouldn't have even bothered returning to the voice considering he didn't sound great in Fun and Fancy Free either (albeit it was passable there)

[@aidanhever3369]

Why you didn't mention that Walt Disney's own daughter: Diane was angry at him for the death of Bambi's mother ?

[@richardranke7878]

I hear Walt had told Diane that he was only following the book, and Diane didn't see why because there sure were differences between the books and movies of Snow White, Pinocchio,etc.

[@SuperWolsey]

6:25-6:40. I laughed harder than I should've 😂😂😂

[@nicostud916]

28:06 I see where Jeff Dunham got inspiration for Bubba J

[@josephrowe849]

He likes NASCAR and drinkin' beer! Duh huh huh!

[@eliassmeke3991]

Fun 🤩 Fact: Dumbo was reissued in 1949, 1959, 1972 and 1976.

[@ciscotheinkboi]

19:10 JAWS?!?! MY FAVORITE MOVIE?!?! And my favorite Disney character Casey Jr in one video? Impressive! *likes and subs*

[@lazlow8788]

Times were hard for Walt and the studio during the 40s, but he found a way to pull through despite the war and strike. How he did it I don't know.

[@cinemalights4601]

You forgot to mention Bambi 2.

[@themadmaxrocketawesome1339]

That what I was about to say that

[@powerpup97]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Smokey Bear’s cameo in the 1956 short, “In the Bag”.

[@ptcarbonproductions2013]

Which was scary as fridge.

[@SouthJerseySam]

Not as scary as the one PSA where he was wearing a woman's mask then ripped it off at the end.

[@choney303]

Wonderful vid man! I thought Pinocchio, was Walt’s personal fav but, I guess I was wrong! I don’t remember where I read that at but I’ll find it! Keep up the great vids. Can’t wait for the next.

[@teddyfurstman1997]

New Animation Lookback Me: Gets Excited and Disney Plus Month is Here (Merry Early Christmas to Everyone)

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

7:11 You don't mean Bill Melendez as in the guy that plays Snoopy? I had no idea he worked for Disney!

[@milmil5350]

Anticipating pt 3 💟 This series is amazing. Thanks you for making it.

[@ryancarless7921]

Disney's history is so interesting. Love the video

[@jayquillberry4972]

HOOOOOOOOLD on. Bill Melendez worked for Disney? I find it interesting that the only offensive crow is voiced by a white guy.

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

6:04 Daddy Disney?.........oh no.....

[@piou77piou]

35:14 Cinderella's secret twin. XD

[@disneyfan8719]

I already noticed the similarities when I first saw that film! XD

[@cheneethompson5756]

I agree!

[@SR.PlayAlot64]

This video is awesome, just like the first part. Also I just realized that was Toucan LDM doing the animated bits with Walt.

[@ciscotheinkboi]

2:20 9:33 YAAAYYY CASEY JR!!!! HE'S MY FAVORITE!!!

[@KirbyFan9000]

19:11 oh no im so scared aaaa...

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I actually had "Mickey & The Beanstalk" on an old VHS tape but I can't remember if it was with Fun & Fancy Free or not

[@stephenholloway6893]

Consider that short was later separated for television and home video it could had gone either way.

[@chenstormstout9456]

I had the one on vhs with Ludwig von Drake as the narrator.

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

Funny, Whenever I think of Bambi, I think of three things, Firstly An Animanics episode with Slappy & Skippy Squirrel, The fact that the hunter that killed Bambi’s mom was originally going to be Judge Doom on ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ but that idea was obviously scrapped, And an episode of The Young Ones.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I’ve seen their WW2 cartoons, my grandpa fought in that war. I like to learn more about that time and see what cartoons people watched

[@slowmoe1686]

"So Deer to my Heart" I have never, ever heard of this film. Ever. I guess its because its overshadowed (for both good and bad reasons) by Song of the South?

[@nyanpirethecat2257]

Didn't help that the film isn't brought up that often in the Disney community.

[@spmscout]

i first learned about "so dear to my heart" after finding a vhs tape of it at a library (yes libraries have more than books)

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Shawn Marcy That is how I first saw the film as well. It is available on DVD through the Disney Movie Club. Earlier this year at my local goodwill I found the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection release of the film.

[@CCRoxtar]

Time stamps: 0:00 Recap on Snow White, Pinocchio & Fantasia 1:14 Dumbo 10:48 Bambi 19:34 Saludos Amigos & The 3 Caballeros 22:48 Make Mine Music & Melody Time 23:21 Fun & Fancy Free 30:08 The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad

[@coffeecal1997]

I’d recognize those animated scenes anywhere! Good job ToucanLDM!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Sandlot1992]

I never knew Bill Melendez work at Walt Disney animation studios before!

[@samfeldstein4498]

Interestingly he also voiced Snoopy and Woodstock in some of the Peanuts cartoons

[@stephenholloway6893]

@@samfeldstein4498 All (or at least most) of them til his death in 2008. Plus archive recordings in The Peanuts Movie.

[@AlexPerrine]

Ricco he even did Frosty Returns for CBS

[@supermariof0521]

I feel like you sorta skimmed over "Saludos Amigos", "The Three Calbaleros", "Make Mine Music", and "Melody Time".

[@lisanettles2731]

Fire Dust, what do you mean by skimmed?

[@supermariof0521]

@@lisanettles2731 Like he didn't go into much detail regarding those films. Their history, release, box office, critical response and legacy.

[@nicholasdruce5346]

He forgot Melody Time.

[@nicholasdruce5346]

The Johnny Appleseed segment was also used in the 2001 Package film, Disney's American Legends hosted by James Earl Jones.

[@chillplayer1234]

Fire Dust They’re not that important.

[@EpicGeopolitics]

This is a really great series, thanks dude! Really looking forward to watching the rest.

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

You forgot to say that Dumbo was the first Disney film set in the time of its original release

[@edenrahav]

My parents told me that the first ever movie I saw in theaters was Bambi 2, back then my age was 3 years and 3 months

[@darthstarkiller1912]

In college, I did a report about FDR's Good Neighbor Policy and the influence on Disney. My professor loved it.

[@BrendanJSmith]

I can’t believe you didn’t recreate the joke from the original with crazy Donald getting shot by “Man”.

[@equusheart3344]

I actually have both Bongo and Legend of Sleepy Hollow on separate VHS tapes as stand alone pieces.

[@jayquillberry4972]

Is no one going to mention Pan on The Wind and The Willows cover and how he isn't in the film? Or more recent adaptions?

[@lisanettles2731]

After Dinah Shore, the second narrator for Bongo was Cliff Edwards voiceing Jiminy Cricket, when Bongo aired on Television.

[@gilition]

6:33 is that Bill Melendez?

[@SemmieWNT]

6:30 Top 10 anime fights

[@neilyoungboy]

It always feels like Disney has gone through cycles of massive success and massive failure.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

They are right now on the cycle of Massive success when it comes to their animated films. I would say it first began in 2007 with "Meet the Robinsons" and is now slowly on the decline, but will hopefully rise back up with "Frozen 2" and whatever original film ideas they have.

[@theggamer2824]

James Moyner I mean Zootopia was excellent ,Wreck it Ralph 2 was good and Moana was also excellent? Why do you say they are at a decline

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Ulysses Contreras Well, while Ralph 2 was good I didn’t find it as good as the first and Disney has sort of been stuck in a sequel slump lately. So I hope I am wrong and it will pick up again especially since Pixar is doing original ideas again with “Soul” and “Onward”.

[@hamursh]

I have an idea for a new Disney attraction, it's called "Disney Mountain"! It starts up on a high hill while Snow White shows up and a big drop when it gets to the bombs and then it goes up when the hits come up and then down and up and down and up and down and yadda yadda yadda...

[@hamursh]

I don't think Disney would make fun of itself...

[@lisanettles2731]

Here's my ranking of the package films 1. The Three Caballeros 2. Fun and Fancy Free 3. Ichabod and Mr. Toad 4. Saludos Amigos 5. Melody Time 6. Make Mine Music

[@enricopersia4290]

I love this reissued series! Waiting for the next one

[@nevinsonlotterman5492]

Mickey Mouse Fantasias an Pinocchio are the best Disney animation of all time

[@BlueEye096]

I love this series I hope you go all the way to the 2000's in full detail!

[@CoderatheGreat]

19:13, truly the stuff of nightmares.

[@michaelpierce5763]

You got better at editing the walt disney segments

[@SG-wo5lm]

12:29 would not be surprised if that actually happened.

[@nicholasdigaetano]

14:49 of that wasn’t heart breaking enough the scene allegedly was made because it represented Walt Disney’s mother’s death

[@kobaltsteel6418]

19:10 NO! NO! You DO NOT get to scare the crap out of me, Animat!!! NO!

[@Garrettk41]

It actually made more sense to not have Bambi come across his mother's corpse. I mean think about it. After the hunter killed her, do you think he just left her there? Of course not. He took the body back with him to cook up. By the way, regarding that set of other creepy movies Bambi was apparently compared with. What was that third clip from?

[@hoopaguy6685]

That was Amazing!

[@Teag_Brohman15]

The Animated segments in this remind me a lot of Terry Gilliam for some reason

[@justoutofframemoviereviews656]

Oh, we're gonna hit the big boss for a raise...

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

And so the joke of Disney killing off mommies off screen was born.

[@MrGabeanator]

lol

[@MrSammyD91]

And Daddies once Mufasa came around

[@austinreed7343]

@@MrSammyD91 They at least get heroic, on-screen deaths.

[@dances_with_incels]

Damn can't wait for part 3

[@alanoliva2020]

Alright now this is where it's getting interesting! Although breafly in the beginning I thought you were going to say "He lost a Buttload of money"

[@joefrew1614]

Why didn’t you talk too much about Casey Jr. outside mentioning his ride at Disneyland? That cartoon train had some really fun facts surrounding him from Dumbo’s production. Mainly, the reason why he has that weird voice, it was produced using the Sonovox audio device

[@brandiellis4837]

My ranking! #4. Fun & Fancy Free #3. The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad #2. Dumbo #1. Bambi

[@DukeofArtz]

$267 Million dollars at the Box Office for “Bambi” that’s a lot of money

[@fefarofa]

hey animat, a long time fan here, just wanna thank you for the effort you put on your videos! they've been realy informative and entretaining. HOWEVER, as a latin american viewer, i feel like i have to point out that the "good neighborhood" politics the US were enforcing in the 30s and 40s via the CIA and in which Walt collaborated aimed on holding back Comunism in latin american countries, not Fascism. as a matter of fact, a lot of latin american regimes at the time (including that of my country, Brasil) had Fascist outlines but/and were supported by the US because they persecuted not only comunists but all kind of popular organizations.

[@lisanettles2731]

Here is my ranking of the first five films 1. Dumbo 2. Bambi 3. Pinocchio 4. Snow White and the seven dwarfs 5. Fantasia

[@MrGabeanator]

thanks for pointing out that cliff edwards was white finally somebody gets it

[@austinandhisfriends]

I'm glad bambi is walts personal favorite movie he made. It is and always will be one of mine too.🙂

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

14:05 Thanks Disney, You have just officially scarred all the children who watched the film, When you wish upon a star.. KILL THE MOMMY DEER! LOL!

[@CaybyJ]

14:22 I CAN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER!!!

[@55twintv39]

26:46 Kinda like Jim Henson playing Kermit since his debut in 1955 but then died in 1990 so it was past down to Steve Whitemire between 1990-2016 until Matt Vogel took over the rule in 2017 and still plays Kermit as of this comment.

[@VaporeonLayne]

7:49 Released on October 23rd, not 31st.

[@nicholasdruce5346]

Dumbo is a Scorpio?