‘Cinderella’ Animated 4K Restoration Is Coming to Disney+
thewrap.comth Disney animated feature and the one, in some ways, that saved both the division and the company. The 1940’s was a difficult period for the studio, with the outbreak of World War II limiting the company’s distribution overseas and being consigned to make propaganda films in support of Allied efforts.
In fact, “Cinderella” was the first feature-length Disney animated film since “Bambi” in 1942; the movies in between were “package films” made up of various shorts, produced more quickly and cheaply.
But “Cinderella” was a deliberate attempt to recall the past glories of the animation studio, like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” and even though the studio was deeply in debt Walt and the team of animators pushed through.
It was the studio’s biggest success since “Snow White,” making nearly as much money and pulling Walt and the rest of the studio out of its hole.
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