History Creator / GoldenFilms

Golden Films, also known as American Film Investment Corporation, was an American animation company founded in 1989 by Diane Eskenazi. Its objective was to create non-violent, quality films. Most of their output, however, can best be described as [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] versions of popular animated films but with very different developments. The most famous of their products are the Enchanted Tales, which most are {{Animated Adaptation}}s of classical fairy tales. It also has adapted adult novels like ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' by Creator/VictorHugo (which ''also'' just so happened to have a Disney adaptation around the same time) and ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by [[Creator/AlexandreDumas Alexandre Dumas père]] and a pair of stories from Literature/TheBible.

* ''WesternAnimation/DinotopiaQuestForTheRubySunstone''

* ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Misfit Toys''

* OffModel: In their films, often there are inconsistencies in the animation.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: In the series of videos depicting fairy tales, famous novels, and the like, none of the voice actors are credited, although animation fans can identify well-known voice actors like Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/CamClarke, Creator/JimCummings, Creator/DebiDerryberry, Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/MonaMarshall, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/RobPaulsen, and Creator/KathSoucie in the casts.

Golden Films, also known as American Film Investment Corporation, was an American animation company founded in 1989 by Diane Eskenazi. Its objective was to create non-violent, quality films. Most of their output, however, can best be described as [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] versions of popular animated films but have a very different development. The most famous of their products are the Enchanted Tales, which most are {{Animated Adaptation}}s of classical fairy tales. It also has adapted adult novels like ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' by Creator/VictorHugo (which ''also'' just so happened to have a Disney adaptation around the same time) and ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by [[Creator/AlexandreDumas Alexandre Dumas père]] and a pair of stories from Literature/TheBible.

* {{Animesque}}: Much of their earlier films were animated with assistance from Japanese companies, with this in effect to varying degrees.

* ''Peter Rabbit'' (or ''Reggie Rabbit'', as they call it in later versions)

** The Hedgehog - Tommy Brock

* NoNameGiven: The fox that captured Benny in "Peter Rabbit" is never given a name but it could clearly be Mr Todd.

* GrumpyBear: Hopsy

* ''The Emperor's Treasure''

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: In the series of videos depicting fairy tales, famous novels, and the like, none of the voice actors are credited, although animation fans can identify well-known voice actors like Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/CamClarke, Creator/JimCummings, Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/RobPaulsen, and Creator/KathSoucie in the casts.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeautyGoldenFilms Sleeping Beauty]]''

* ArtisticLicenseShips: In ''The Little Mermaid'', a ship's captain orders the sails unfurled when a storm hits. But doing so in real life would only make the ship more likely to go to Davy Jones' Locker.

* UnscaledMerfolk: Cassandra from ''The Little Mermaid'' has an eel tail, something not particularly common when it comes to depictions of merpeople.

** In The Little Mermaid, Cassandra isn't seen again after she sends Lena to the surface. It's never revealed why she aided Lena or why she took her voice (which Lena never gets back).

** In The Little Mermaid, Cassandra isn't seen again after she sends Lina to the surface. It's never revealed why she aided Lina or why she took her voice (which Lina never gets back).

* ''Sinbad''

The studio went bankrupt in 2004.

Many of their works were distributed by Creator/GoodTimesEntertainment.

* FatGirl: Flopsy in the Golden Films adaptation of Peter Rabbit.

* ''The Little Mermaid''

* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone''

* AnimateInanimateObject: Many of the movies have these, obviously inspired by the ones from Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Their sentience is often unexplained.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Their films' scores often use classical music, including pieces by Music/JohannSebastianBach and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1998 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer The Movie]]''

Many of their works were distributed by [=GoodTimes=] Entertainment.

* ''Little Angels''

* ''Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone''

* CosmicDeadline: A few of the films, due to their short runtimes, end up having their problems quickly and suddenly resolved in the last few minutes of the film (''Pocahontas'' and ''The Little Mermaid'' being the most blatant), which often leaves a number of other storylines hanging.