Walt Disney Never Makes Snow White

TudorQueen

Banned
In 1937, Snow White and The Seven Dwarves was released by Walt Disney. The film received much critical acclaim, and is credited with starting the Walt Disney Company and allowing for many more films and creations from Walt. I know this may be a sad thing to ask, but what if Snow White had never been made by Walt, and Walt Disney had just given up? What would the entertainment industry look like today without the Walt Disney company?
 
Somebody would probably make a feature length animated film eventually, but but the whole genre might be very different and probably a lot niche.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Disney keeps making shorts, and eventually he regains the confidence to make a movie, maybe the Snow Queen or Sleeping Beauty. Later in life, Disney would lamate how he gave up, and wishes he could go back and tell his younger self to keep going on. After his death, attempts are made to make the Snow White Feature, however out of respect these productions eventually end and move on. Snow White gets made eventually, although not for decades.

Fantasia also becomes a success, with a new one released every five years and reflecting popular music at the time. They are highly regarded.
 
Disney keeps making shorts, and eventually he regains the confidence to make a movie, maybe the Snow Queen or Sleeping Beauty. Later in life, Disney would lamate how he gave up, and wishes he could go back and tell his younger self to keep going on. After his death, attempts are made to make the Snow White Feature, however out of respect these productions eventually end and move on. Snow White gets made eventually, although not for decades.

Fantasia also becomes a success, with a new one released every five years and reflecting popular music at the time. They are highly regarded.

Actually Disney would go belly up. He borrowed so much money to make Snow White that if it flopped he would have wound up in bankruptcy court.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Actually Disney would go belly up. He borrowed so much money to make Snow White that if it flopped he would have wound up in bankruptcy court.

If there was so much money, then Disney isn't going to just give up, he'll make it out of spite.
 
Walt will make animated shorts through the end of World War II. The war brings a boost he needs to expand the studio. He then will attempt a full feature animated film again and later into television again. It'll take live action much longer to start being produced by Disney and it may not be until television is used widely.
 
It is interesting to think how differently the modern standard fairy tail canon would be without Disney selectively picking and choosing in quite the same way.
 
Would it be possible to have a more Lion King like approach, ie, a classical myth, but replace humans with animals (Lion King essentially ended up as Hamlet played by lions)?
 
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