The different eras in feature animation

[Big Disney Fan]

I'm going to update my list again (not that there is much there), again with the food terms from "Mouse Under Glass", but this time, I'm going to do alter some of the sections, particularly in the 1990s, because I'm not happy with the usage of the words therein:

Salad Days
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Dumbo
Bambi

Potluck
Saludos Amigos
The Three Caballeros
Make Mine Music
Fun and Fancy Free
Melody Time
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Classic Cuisine
Cinderella
Alice In Wonderland
Peter Pan
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty

Microwave Magic
101 Dalmatians
The Sword In the Stone
The Jungle Book

Reheated Leftovers
The AristoCats
Robin Hood
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Rescuers
The Fox and the Hound

Cleansing the Palette
The Black Cauldron
The Great Mouse Detective
Oliver and Company

Icing On the Cake
The Little Mermaid
The Rescuers Down Under
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Pocahontas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Mulan
Tarzan
Fantasia 2000

Chef's Surprise
Dinosaur
The Emperor's New Groove
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Lilo and Stitch
Treasure Planet
Brother Bear
Home On the Range

Stewing
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
Bolt

Silver Platter
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Winnie the Pooh
Wreck-It Ralph
Frozen
Big Hero 6
Zootopia
Moana

[blackcauldron85]

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Besides the package films (which I don't watch very often), while there are some DACs that I do tend to watch more than others (TBC, TLM, TP&tF), I watch the rest pretty consistently compared to one another.

[Farerb]

Yesterday, Disney archivist and historian Dave Smith gave a presentation called "80 Years of Disney Animated Features" during a Tangled screening on the Walt Disney Studios lot that's part of the "Magical Screening Series" for D23 members. I believe this is the first time someone in an official Disney capacity has divided the animation eras and given them titles. This is how they were divided.

1937-1942: The Golden Age
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Dumbo
Bambi

1943-1949: War and Reinvention
Saludos Amigos
The Three Caballeros
Make Mine Music
Fun and Fancy Free
Melody Time
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1950-1967: The Silver Age
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty
101 Dalmatians
The Sword in the Stone
The Jungle Book

1970-1988: The Changing of the Guard
The Aristocats
Robin Hood
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Rescuers
The Fox and the Hound
The Black Cauldron
The Great Mouse Detective
Oliver & Company

1989-1994: The Second Golden Age
The Little Mermaid
The Rescuers Down Under
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King

1995-1999: Renewal & Regeneration
Pocahontas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Mulan
Tarzan
Fantasia 2000

2000-2004: Explorations
Dinosaur
The Emperor's New Groove
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Lilo & Stitch
Treasure Planet
Brother Bear
Home on the Range

2005-2008: The Computer Age
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
Bolt

2009- : The Present Era
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Winnie the Pooh
Wreck-It Ralph
Frozen
Big Hero 6
Zootopia
Moana


Here are a couple of photos from the presentation.


Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQI-TGblStS/


Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQI-lfXlacS/

I never knew there was an official division of the eras, it's usually felt divided arbitrarily according to one's biases (like dividing the 70's and 80's presumably because they like the 70's and hate the 80's).

I'd say that this is pretty much how I like to divide them, I never really liked that the 95-99 films were grouped together with the 89-94 films (yes I'm biased as well). I will say that some films got lucky because of their release date and not because they actually fit in like The Rescuers Down Under or Winnie the Pooh. Both of them feel more like leftovers from previous eras.

I also know this is from a while ago, but I'd say that Ralph Breaks the Internet might have started a new era and we just haven't realized that yet. Time will tell.

[Disney's Divinity]

It would be interesting to see how these distinctions may change with Lasseter gone. Separating Meet the Robinsons, Chicken Little, and Bolt from the other computer-made films was more about his ego than anything else, imo.

It's hard to imagine how the eras will be split going forward, since most of the modern films feel very samey... There hasn't been a noticeable shift in how stories are told or structured; no real experimentation or shift in design either. Maybe Jennifer Lee taking over might present some new things in the future--maybe an end to buddy roadtrips eventually, please God? You couldn't really separate them by intake, since how they perform seems so random. There isn't a "buildup" arc like from TLM to TLK. Frozen, Zootopia, and Frozen II were all huge, but WIR, BH6, Moana, and Ralph Breaks the Internet around them were not. I still think the best way to label the last decade would be The Lasseter Era, since it's the best description, but since he's a predator, they would never do that.