This is a question I have asked myself time and time again when I have run across this in the different productions from Disney.
And I´m speaking reuse in the way of COMPLETLY COPYING.
What do you all think of this?
I recently have been looking to the cartoons from the 50´s and 60´s and I had forgot how much stuff that the studio reused in their productions during this time and into the 70´s as well.
Though it´s a fun cartoon I think GOLIATH II is the worst example of this.
In it I quickly noticed reusing of animation from the following earlier
Disneywork:
Dumbo
Bambi
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty
Anyone that have noticed animation from some other feature or cartoon in it?
Another much used animation is from LAMBERT THE SHEEPISH LION, which you can find almost exactly copied in various cartoons with lions from this time, most notably SOCIAL LION.
In the feature lenght productions I think ROBIN HOOD is the worst.
In it they reused a whole sequence from SNOWWHITE, as you surely have noticed.
During the War years I think it was acceptable to reuse animation in the different propaganda and commercial shorts, to limit the costs, but after that I don´t think it was OK to do so. They could at least have tried to change it a little bit, so it shouldn´t have been so obvious.
Or did they think that noone had seen the cartoon before, just because it was (maybe) ten years since it was released?
Already then Disney had begun it´s program of reissuing their features and shorts - so it´s pretty strange that Disney himself allowed this - he was the one that wanted everything to be the best!
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