Fave Animated Films before Pixar

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Fave Animated Films before Pixar

I think it's common knowledge that Toy Story has revolutionized animated films around the world, or at least in the US, for better or for worse. No longer are there that many motion pictures with hand-drawn cels or claymation or other forms of stop-motion. Almost everything's 3-D and CGI nowadays. (TV cartoons followed suit, save for those 2-D cartoons made with Adobe Flash or the like.) So, what are your favorite theatrically released animated movies from before Toy Story's debut (November 22, 1995)? I don't want to discuss animated works in general, so no...
- animated GIFs or memes
- animated television series
- direct-to-video movies
- experimental films only shown at universities
- hybrids of animation & live-action
- made-for-TV movies
- puppet shows
- short films
- theatrical shorts
- examples of web animation

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Pinocchio (1940)
Dumbo (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Peter Pan (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
101 Dalmatians (1961)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Aristocats (1970)
Robin Hood (1973)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The Rescuers (1977)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
An American Tail (1986)
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
The Land Before Time (1988)
Oliver & Company (1988)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
Beauty & the Beast (1991)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Aladdin (1992)
The Nightmare before Christmas (1993)
The Lion King (1994)
The Swan Princess (1994)
A Goofy Movie (April 1995)
Pocahontas (June 1995)

LonelyJar, if you miss old-fashioned drawn, hand painted animation, feast your eyes on anything from Studio Ghibli, particularly the works of Hayao Miyazaki but also some others. They are still putting out traditional animation in the post-Pixar world, and making you remember why it was worth it. Here are my recommendations, from highest to lowest:
- Spirited Away (You must see this one!)
- Howl's Moving Castle
- The Secret World of Arrietty
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Tales from Earthsea
- Castle in the Sky
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Ponyo
- Princess Mononoke

Also, don't forget to check out some great stop action films from Aardman productions. most of these are using stop-motion animated clay, although I think Chicken Run might have used 3D. I hear there is a Shaun the Sheep movie out but i haven't seen it. From highest rated to lowest (and it's very hard to decide which is best):
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- all Wallace & Gromit shorts
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
- Chicken Run
- Flushed Away

For older stuff, cause i'm not a Disney-only fan
- Yellow Submarine (the colors! the patterns! the music!! !)
- Bambi
- Pinocchio
- Fantasia I and II (so avant guarde and non-story driven, the first one didn't really get the praise it deserved until many years later)
- Lady and the Tramp (always makes me blubber in the dog pound scene. Every. Time.)
- Dumbo
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Prince of Egypt
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Little Mermaid
- Watership Down
- 101 Dalmations

In No Particular Order:

The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Sleeping Beauty
Peter Pan
The Jungle Book
Bambi
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Lady and the Tramp
101 Dalmatians
Robin Hood
Transformers: The Movie
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro

I love love love love Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle In The Sky, and The Cat Returns!

In no particular order:

The Last Unicorn
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Aladdin
The Road to El-Dorado
Watership Down
Titan A.E.
The Emperor's New Groove
The Secret of Nihm

Gah! How could I forget about The Last Unicorn!

The Black Cauldron

CG isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but I love stop motion animated movies, such as, but not limited to:

Fantastic Mr. Fox

ParaNorman

The Corpse Bride

Chicken Run

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

Coraline

Frankenweenie

The Boxtrolls

James and the Giant Peach

My favorites include:

Alice in Wonderland
The Aristocats
The Lion King
The Last Unicorn
The Mouse and His Child
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Snoopy, Come Home
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

The Prince of Egypt (1998) Hercules (1997) The Hunchback of Noter Dame (1996)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

One of my favourite Studio Ghibli films is Only Yesterday. It's wonderful.

The Fox And the Hound was my favorite movie as a kid.