![]() ![]() This re-grouping of creative input naturally extended to the studio’s musical staff as well, and resulted in a shift in Disney’s musical sound, just as the new team of visual artists engendered a new animation style. ![]() A major aspect of this second phase involved the reorganization of Disney’s creative team which had been split by the animation strike. Phase two of Disney’s career in animation was instigated by a number of circumstances including: the failure of several of the first animated features to live up to commercial expectations, the studio strike of the early ‘40s which lost Disney some of his best artists, and the advent of World War Il during which his studio was taken over by the military and utilized for government purposes.ĭue to the cumulative impact of these overlapping events Disney and his staff were forced to go back to block one, as it were, to nearly re-learn the lessons digested in the studios first phase of creative development, the 1930s, and to slowly make their way back to a standard of creative and technical proficiency that peaked in the “renaissance” of feature animation of the early ‘50s. The animated films of Walt Disney can be divided into two major periods of development and culmination: the initial phase extending from his first efforts in the medium in the mid/late 1920s through the release of BAMBI in 1942, and the second lasting from 1942 to 1959 and the release of SLEEPING BEAUTY, Disney’s last major feature. ![]() Text reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Luc Van de Ven and Ross Care Artwork by Denis Tiani ![]() Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.8/No.31, 1989 ![]()
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