Popular Animation movies

Since its first full-length animation feature film over 70 years ago, The Walt Disney Studios have represented the benchmark in production and animation techniques worldwide, with an honorable mention to the ‘Manga’ school of animated Japanese cartoons, hugely popular across the globe.

Below are some examples of the animations and movies which, each in their own way, has contributed to the overall richness of the genre:

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs – (1937) (Disney) (1st feature length animated movie)
Pinocchio – (1940) (Disney)
Fantasia – (1940) (Disney)
Dumbo – (1941) (Disney)
Bambi – (1942) (Disney)
Cinderella – (1950) (Disney)
Alice in Wonderland – (1951) (Disney)
Peter Pan – (1953) (Disney)
Lady and the Tramp – (1955) (Disney)
Sleeping Beauty – (1959) (Disney)
101 Dalmatians – (1961) (Disney)
The Jungle Book – (1967) (Disney)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – (1971) (Disney)
The Fox and the Hound – (1981) (Disney)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit – (1988) (Disney)
The Little Mermaid – (1989) (Disney)
The Lion King – (1994) (Disney)
Toy Story – (1995) (Disney/Pixar)
Toy Story 2 – (1999) (Disney/Pixar)
Finding Nemo – (2003) (Disney/Pixar)
The Incredibles – (2004) (Disney)
Cars – (2006) (Disney/Pixar)
Ratatouille – (2007) (Disney/Pixar)
Wall-E – (2008) (Pixar)
Perhaps the best example of a mainstream ‘Manga’ style movie is:

Princess Mononoke – (1999) (Miramax) (Dir. Hayao Miyazaki) (Japan)
Last but not least, further outstanding examples of different types of animated cartoon movies are:

Gulliver’s Travels – (1939) (Fleischer Studios)
Animal Farm – (1954) (UK)
Watership Down – (1978) (Warner Studios)
An American Tail – (1986) (Amblin Entertainment)
Shrek – (2001) (DreamWorks)