A video posted on Twitter is showing how Disney handled its animation process during its hand-drawn animation era. The clip shows various clips of different Disney films side-by-side, showcasing instances of recycled animations. Same movement or actions, different characters or movies. The video has been viewed over 11 million times, and people have mixed reactions to it:
The montage beings with a clip of Winnie the Pooh's Christopher Robin alongside one of The Jungle Book's Mowgli, both clambering over rocks. Although the films were released 10 years apart (1977 and 1967 respectively), the characters' actions are eerily identical. The clip also reveals the Jungle Book also borrowed animations from The Sword in the Stone, released a year previously.
It seems the responses fall into one of three categories: confused, indignant or impressed. Many are are simply stunned to see that some of their favourite childhood films recycled animations, while others decry the practice as lazy. But many point out how laborious the animation process was in the 1960s and 70s (if only a few of today's best laptops for video editing had been knocking about), and call the recycling practice efficient, and even inspired.
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This is old, old news. There's videos of this on Youtube from a dozen years ago.
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