The above image is half Mowgli from the Jungle book and half Christopher Robin wandering through the 100 Acre Wood with Winnie the Pooh.

There’s a video making the internet rounds this (and last) week that shows Disney’s frequent re-use of animation cycles through multiple films, and - frankly - I’m surprised this is a forehead slapping moment for some people.

The mice in Cinderella were so built with and for repeated animation cycles that I noticed it when I was a child. Because you watch those things over and over again and you notice similar motions. Not to mention that this is a lot of how we get animation tropes. For example: ask anyone who has seen the Charlie Brown Chrsitmas Special (which should be everyone) to replicate one of the dances seen in the cartoon. It’s animation looping, so it makes repetitive, memorable sequences.

That being said, as a minor fan of all things Classic Disney, this video is more a trip down memory lane than some sort of OMIGOD moment where I think Disney is cheap or evil.

They might be both now, but they weren’t both then.

Video inside…