I believe I've read that this movie was hit in France and Japan, especially Japan. In Japan seems like they had an attraction at the parks that lasted like 20+ years too. I've even seen some legends state that The Legend of Zelda was loosely based on this film too. Wonder how true this is.Rumpelstiltskin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 1:35 pm There were a lot of countries in Europe and other parts of the world where the movie was never released. Not sure if it was even available on VHS, or if you had to wait till it was released on DVD. So for many The Black Cauldron feels like one of Disney's unwanted children (like Glago's Guest).
(As for recycled animation, it is apparently a myth that Woolie Reitherman did it to save time and money. He just did it because he wanted to, for some reason)
as for recycled animation, yeah it looks like a myth.
Kahl: "It doesn't. The funny thing is that most of the time they spend more money trying to figure out how to re-use it than they would [animating the scene from scratch]. I'd rather see it animated from scratch; even if it's a little bit amateurish, at least it's fresh and new."
what Flyod Norman stated: “It’s actually harder and takes longer to redraw an existing sequence,” Norman told me, “it’s a lot faster and easier to just do new animation, and it’s a lot more fun for the animators. But Woolie liked to play it safe and use stuff he knew would work. That’s all it was.”
my bet is like what Norman stated that he wanted to use what already works. If you have a scene where you want Wart from Sword in the Stone to be licked by the dogs and then want a similar scene with Mowgli getting licked by the Wolves, it would make sense to rehash. Heck even in design Mowgli looks like a riff off from Wart too.
