The Fox and the Hound

I watched The Fox and the Hound yesterday and it is one of my favourites. I watched it as a child and it is what made me love foxes! I even wanted a pet fox after watching it and used to look out my window at night hoping to see a fox that could be my very own Tod... I was young.
My favourite scenes have to be when Tod and Copper are playing hid and seak and the bear attack scene. They are both so wonderfully animated and emotional scenes.

Well, when it finished I was all excited about it again and decided to look up some stuff about it and find stuff from it so have a look below to see what I found, some really inspiring stuff :) Also look at the post above called '1981 Disney Animation Special! - The Illusion of Life' to see some behind the scenes of the making of the movie.

Facts about The Fox and the Hound

• It was made in 1981 and was re-released in 1988.
• It is based on the 1967 novel 'The Fox and the Hound' by Daniel P. Mannix.
• The 24th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
• It was the first animated film to use Dolby Sound.
• It was the last Disney film that Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston worked on.
• Production was delayed when Don Bluth started his own studio and hired away animators.
• The fight sequence with the bear was originally going to be animated in charcoal!
• The co-director was used as a model for Amos Slade, the hunter.
• Approximately 360,000 drawings, 110,000 painted cels and 1,100 painted backgrounds were used to make the finished film.
• A total of 180 people, including 24 animators, worked on the film.
• It was the last Disney animated film to end with a “The End” card.
• Tim Burton was one of the animators on this movie and the Black Cauldron. Although his work was never used.
• In the original screenplay, Chief was slated to die the same as in the novel, but Art Stevens (one of the Producers) did not want to have an on-screen death and modified the film so that he survived.

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