In 1937,
Walt Disney released the first full-length animated feature film in the English-speaking world. (However, it
wasn't, as many claim, the first full-length animated feature film
ever: Foreign examples predating
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs include Argentina's
El Apóstol in 1917, and Germany's
The Adventures of Prince Achmed in 1926.)
This category does not include
Pixar productions, nor does it include every animated feature released by Disney. There don't seem to be any hard-and-fast rules as to which movies get to be part of the canon and which don't, but generally, the canon films are made by the Disney feature animation unit (live-action/animation hybrids like
Mary Poppins tend not to count unless the animation is the bulk of the film). The Other Wiki has a
set of lists
for both the canon and non-canon films.
See also
Disney Princess,
Enchanted (Disney's
Affectionate Parody of its own films),
Kingdom Hearts, a video game series which also seems to follow the rule of only using canonical characters from nearly all of the Disney films
with three exceptions, or
House Of Mouse which represents almost every canonical movie (and then some!) with at least a cameo appearance.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit and
The Nightmare Before Christmas were both produced and released by Disney under its Touchstone Pictures banner (The latter's
3D rereleases were under the Disney banner). Compare the works of former Disney animator
Don Bluth.
The films, in chronological order, are:
*Consists of several short films released as one feature.
Tropes:
- Animorphism
- Animation Bump (generally in the musical numbers)
- Disneyfication of course
- Disney Death
- Disney Fairies
- Disney Princess
- Disney Villain Death
- Cats Are Mean (used, subverted and averted)
- Classic Villain
- Empathy Pet
- Everythings Better With Princesses
- Fairy Companion
- Furry Confusion
- Gonna Fly Now Montage
- Humans Are Bastards
- Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition (The Masterpiece Collection VHS, the Gold Edition DVDs, the Platinum Edition DVDs, and the Diamond Edition BluRays. And of course, the Disney Vault that these all get shoved into if you don't buy them now!)
- Special mention goes to the Masterpiece Collection, which included every VHS release at the time that was part of the Canon, including the stuff nobody remembers (like the compilation films) and the brand-new movies. From Tarzan on, they just put "Walt Disney Pictures Presents" on their cases.
- Love At First Sight
- Misplaced Wildlife
- One Winged Angel
- Parental Abandonment
- Sequelitis (While only two sequels are actually part of the canon, several of the movies have Direct To Video sequels. Eventually, Disney promised to stop making sequels. They actually set a record when they released Bambi II, a
sequel midquel released a whole 64 years after the original.)
- Midquel? Oh, right, there was a Time Skip in the first movie...
- Stock Footage (see this video for examples, with Robin Hood being the worst offender)
- The Power Of Friendship
- The Power Of Imagination
- The Power Of Love
- The Power Of Rock (The Disney characters are considerable forces to be reckoned with!)
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent
- Unfortunate Implications / Values Dissonance - Tons. Just watch Peter Pan or The Aristocats and try not to cringe.
- What Measure Is A Nonhuman
- Public Domain Character
