A Quick One: I dodged quite the cultural bullet

I was born during a time when Disney was out of the feature-film animation racket almost entirely and their sad parade of films that led to that hiatus were rarely shown. I think THE SWORD & THE STONE was the only post-war animated feature I saw projected, I think as a evening-at-the-movies fundraiser at school, and even that one looked cheap, disjointed, tired and uninspired to my inexperienced eyes.

It seems I didn't miss much; here's a delightful collection of shamelessly reused material from those movies -- what offends me isn't that they reused so much, it's that they didn't even show a flicker of imagination in the recycling. Even in those pre-VCR days, the animated features still saw reissues and TV airings often enough that they should have known people would catch them eventually:



My sympathies to anyone 5-10 years older than me, who probably was dragged to see such weak sauce as THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE ARISTOCATS, ROBIN HOOD and THE RESCUERS as a kid.