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7[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[HumbleBeginnings "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by]] a [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse mouse."]]''[[labelnote: Clockwise from top left:]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} Mirabel]], [[WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld Legend, Ethan]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana, Naveen]], WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Mowgli, Baloo]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Nick, Judy]], WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa, Anna]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Flora, Merriweather, Fauna]], [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland the Cheshire Cat]], [[WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon Raya]], WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}, [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro, Baymax]] and [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]].[[/labelnote]]]]
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13->''"To think six years ahead -- even two or three -- in this business of making animated cartoon features, it takes calculated risk and much more than blind faith in the future of theatrical motion pictures. I see motion pictures as a family-founded institution closely related to the life and labor of millions of people. Entertainment such as our business provides has become a necessity, not a luxury... it is the part which offers us the greatest reassurance about the future in the animation field."''
14-->-- '''Creator/WaltDisney'''
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16Promoted by Creator/{{Disney}} as the Disney Animated Classics, the animated feature films produced by their main feature animation studio, currently known as [[https://disneyanimation.com Walt Disney Animation Studios]], has a long history.
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18In 1937, Creator/WaltDisney released the first feature-length animated film in the English-speaking world and the first feature film made completely with hand-drawn animation. However, [[OlderThanTheyThink it wasn't]], [[CommonKnowledge as many claim]], the first feature-length animated film ''ever''. Foreign examples predating ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' and using other kinds of animation include Argentina's ''The Apostle'' (combining hand-drawn with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation cutout animation]]) in 1917, Germany's ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPrinceAchmed'' (done with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette_animation silhouette animation]]) in 1926, and The Soviet Union's ''The New Gulliver'' (done with StopMotion) in 1935.
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20This category does not include productions from Walt Disney Animation's sister studios Creator/{{Pixar}} and [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios Blue Sky]], nor does it include every animated feature released by Disney (such as the DirectToVideo {{Sequel}}s and other films created by Creator/DisneyToonStudios, Creator/StudioGhibli dubs, animated films made under a different Disney banner such as ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', which was made under Creator/TouchstonePictures, as well as films made by 20th Century Animation and released under Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios, or animated films distributed by Disney but produced by non-Disney studios). 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 have a big budget and are made by the Disney feature animation unit (live-action/animation hybrids like ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' and ''Film/MaryPoppins'' tend not to count unless the animation is the bulk of the film, as in ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'' or ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime''). Website/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features set of lists]] for both the canon and non-canon films.
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22See also Creator/DisneyToonStudios, Franchise/DisneyPrincess, ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' (an AffectionateParody of Disney's own films), ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', a video game series which also seems to follow the rule of only using canonical characters from nearly all of these films (although it does use some from outside the canon), or ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' which represents almost every canonical movie up to 2001 with at least a cameo appearance. ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is a live-action fairy tale series shown on Disney-owned ABC, with versions of the fairy tale characters heavily and obviously indebted to the Disney animated film versions. ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' is a similar all-DAC crossover Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie, featuring the offspring of classic Disney characters in a live-action musical. The Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes refers to a series of films that remake DAC films in live-action format.
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24''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' were both produced and released by Disney under its Creator/TouchstonePictures banner (the latter's [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D]] re-releases were under the Disney banner). Compare the works of former Disney animator Creator/DonBluth, as well as the two feature length animated films made by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]].
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26For notable Disney staff, [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyDisneyStaff go here]].
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28The list of all the films in the canon (plus upcoming films, related franchises and cancelled films) can be found on [[Recap/DisneyAnimatedCanon this Recap page]].
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30All of them have been pitted together in a competitive tournament-style poll as the subject of the podcast ''Podcast/MouseMadness''.
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32!!The Disney Animated Canon provides examples of:
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34[[index]]
35* DisneyAnimatedCanon/TropesA
36* DisneyAnimatedCanon/TropesBToH
37* DisneyAnimatedCanon/TropesIToP
38* DisneyAnimatedCanon/TropesQToZ
39[[/index]]
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