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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first movie ever made my Walt Disney. It was produced on a budget of $1.49 million and the total box office made $418.2 million. It first made its debut in the Carthay Circle Theater. It received and Academy Award nomination for Best Musical score in 1938 and the Library of Congress placed it in the National Film Registry in 1989.
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Pinocchio
Pinocchio was made on a budget of $2,289,247 and the total box office earning was $84.2 million. The movie was based on an Italian children's novel called The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. At first it was a failure in the box offices.
Eventually it became the first movie by Walt Disney to earn an Academy Award. It also got awarded Best Music, Original Score and the other for Best Music, Original Song for “When You Wish Upon a Star”.
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Fantasia
Fantasia was created on a budget of $2.28 million and made a total box office earning of $76.4 – $83.3 million. It was his first movie to feature live-action elements. Because of the high production cost and World War II, it failed to make a profit. However, since 1940 it has been remade many times and its reputation grew. This resulted in the sequel Fantasia 2000, which was released in late 1999.
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The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon was created on a budget of $600,000 and made a box office total of $400,000. It was a fictional tour of the newly made Disney studios in Burbank, California. It was the second movie of Walt Disney's that featured live-action along with animated. Released in 1941 during the Disney animators strike, most of the audience was disappointed that it wasn't an animated film like Pinocchio and Snow White.
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Dumbo
Dumbo was made on a $950,000 budget and the total box office earnings was $1.6 million. It is the fourth fully animated movie made by Disney. It ended up being a 64 minute long movie that was purposely made simple due to low production costs. It was through this movie that Disney hoped to make up the money that they had lost in the making of Fantasia. www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/ -
Bambi
Bambi was created on a $858,000 budget and made a total box office earning of $267.4 million. It was based off of Austrian author Felix Salten's book, Bambi, a Life in the Woods. Like Pinocchio and Fantasia, it was made during World War II and was unable to make a profit during its initial release. It was re-released in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988 and that is when it was able to make a profit. http://www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/ -
Saludos Amigos
Saludos Amigos does have a recorded amount of money it spent on producing the movie nor the amount the box offices made. It was first released in Latin America and consisted of four shorts starring Donald Duck, Goofy, and the debut of José Carioca, the Brazilian cigar-smoking parrot. It is the shortest Disney movie to date with a running time of 42 minutes. http://www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/ -
Victory Through Air Power
Victory Through Air Power was created on a budget of $788,000 and made a box office total of $799,000. It was based off of Alexander P. de Seversky's book by the same name. Walt thought that the message in Severky's book was important to share, so he personally financed the production of it. When trying to release the movie, Disney's main distributor RKO Radio Pictures, refused to release the movie so they had to release it through United Artists. www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/ -
The Three Caballeros
The Three Caballeros, like Saludos Amigos, does not have records of their budget or the box office totals. Also like Saludo Amigos, it was a Latin American movie. They created it as a part of Disney's good will message for South America. The movie is made of single segments tied together by Donal Duck opening presents from his Latin American friends. It combined both live-action and animation in it. www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/ -
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music was made on a budget of $1.35 million and made a box office total of $2.25. It is not widely known due to its limited release and lack of DVD's and VHS tapes sold outside of the US. The movie consisted of nine unrelated segments set to music. It was made in hopes of saving the Disney's feature film division from going under during World War II. www.oldest.org/entertainment/disney-movies/
