Disney's 100th anniversary is this year, and to celebrate, I'm going to tell the story of this legendary animation company over a yearlong period.
Continuing into the 1960s, Walt Disney was the premiere provider of all American family ent…
Disney's 100th anniversary is this year, and to celebrate, I'm going to tell the story of this legendary animation company over a yearlong period.
Continuing into the 1960s, Walt Disney was the premiere provider of all American family entertainment, yet still made those animated films every so often. Following One Hundred and One Dalmations, Disney would begin work on two different animated films, Chanticleer, and The Sword in the Stone, based on T.H. White's book of the same name. Walt had purchased the rights to the book in 1939, and finally got around to making it around 1960. Chanticleer moved steadily in development and pre-production, but after several disagreements between the top animators, storymen, and Walt Disney himself, Chanticleer was shut down and they caved into to The Sword in the Stone instead. Chanticleer would later be picked up by Don Bluth and repurposed into the animated feature Rock-A-Doodle by 1990.
Walt wasn't very involved so much in the production of The Sword in the Stone, yet according to Floyd Norman, he was involved in every movie that was produced at Walt Disney Productions throughout his entire life. This marked a significant moment in Disney history, because it's the first animated Disney feature that had songs from Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, the Sherman Bros. According to Richard, anytime you ever did something that pleased Walt for any given production, he wouldn't really say, "That's great!" or anything like that, he just simply said to you, "That'll work." The Sherman Bros are given very little to do in this film, and it does show. Also, this animated feature just happens to be @JamesNintendoNerd's favorite of the Disney classic features. He is known as the Angry Video Game Nerd on YouTube.
As the 60s dragged on, people may have felt that Disney was creating an ideological image ignorant of somehow evolving with the times. They may have dismissed his films as kitschy or corny or something. They must have felt the ..
