I mostly made this to shame myself into watching more American animation that isn't Disney.
Based on what I've seen, here are what I think are the best non-Disney, U.S.-made animated features of each year that a Disney animated feature was theatrically released. Excluding Pixar, because a rose by any other name. I've left off years where either no other animated feature was made in America (depressingly common) or where I've not seen any of them (in which case, suggestions welcome). I've also seen an embarrassingly small number of U.S. animated movies in some of these years, so again, suggestions welcome.
Years Where Damn Disney Movies Are the Only Animated Movies Made in the United States:
-1937 (Snow White and…
I mostly made this to shame myself into watching more American animation that isn't Disney.
Based on what I've seen, here are what I think are the best non-Disney, U.S.-made animated features of each year that a Disney animated feature was theatrically released. Excluding Pixar, because a rose by any other name. I've left off years where either no other animated feature was made in America (depressingly common) or where I've not seen any of them (in which case, suggestions welcome). I've also seen an embarrassingly small number of U.S. animated movies in some of these years, so again, suggestions welcome.
Years Where Damn Disney Movies Are the Only Animated Movies Made in the United States:
-1937 (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
-1940 (Pinocchio, Fantasia)
-1942 (Bambi)
-1944 (Saludos Amigos)
-1946 (Make Mine Music)
-1947 (Fun and Fancy Free)
-1948 (Melody Time)
-1949 (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
-1950 (Cinderella)
-1951 (Alice in Wonderland)
-1953 (Peter Pan)
-1955 (Lady and the Tramp)
-1961 (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
-1963 (The Sword in the Stone)
Eligible Years I Haven't Seen Any Non-Disney American Animated Movies:
-1967 (The Jungle Book)
-2003 (Brother Bear)
