It has been historically difficult to think of Disney animated properties as anything other than a monolith, mostly because that’s how Disney curates things. I’ve never been particularly aware of film auteurs, but have been blasting through the Blank Check podcast backlog and am having my eyes opened. When they tangented into the different directors of different classic Disney animated films, or even eras, I realized that I’d never even thought about Disney animated films even having directors with voices.
I suppose that becomes easier in the current era where “Disney Movie” doesn’t really mean anything anymore, that could be a Marvel movie, a Star Wars movie, an Disney animated, a Pixar animated…the list will undoubtedly get longer. It’s funny to think my kids won’t really experience the blob of Snow-White-thru-Lion-King arc as a unified thing the way I did…
