Animation historians know the cycle of Disney animated feature films very well. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Disney animation was going through a transition. “Going through a transition,” in business terms, is typically a polite way of saying that their films began to tank at the box office on a regular basis and/or they were critically panned (often both). Even some of the films that were hits didn’t exactly become marketing bonanzas. As we all know, 1985’s “The Black Cauldron” bombed so hard that Disney threatened to shutter its animation studio entirely. Luckily, the late ’80s and early ’90s proved to be a renaissance for the company,…
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