Animation similarities
 

Peachykeen found this great video. It shows how the animators used some of the same shots in different Disney films:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ia5TBmY78

Interesting, but not exactly fair. All it proves is that Robin Hood is pure hackwork ... and that's been obvious for decades since it first appeared as one of the craptackiest Disney animated films ever foisted.

I can't help myself... I love it. What that film is lacking in animation, it more than makes up for in charm.

Ditto that. It was the Disney film that perhaps I loved the most as a child. Hackwork, stolen from prior rotoscope? Totally. Beloved? Absolutely.

Ah, kids'll watch anything, and I was a kid then too, just as guilty as the rest. Too bad we were born in the 70's.

Anyone who's seen Robin Hood and Aristocats after age 15 doesn't need more proof that they are shoddily made, but it is fun to watch this comparison and shake your head in amazement that this is Disney.

The finale involving two waltzes is dumb though. They're both waltzing. That's what waltzing looks like. No way that counts as a rip off.

Neat!
The video makes a good point. Films in that era, like Robin Hood stole from other films and gave to the poor audiences mediocre entertainment.
:D

The piece itself is well edited. The poor editor spent a lot of time on it.
:)

Well, and the thing is, if a shot works, it works. Leonardo daVinci doesn't own the waist-up portrait, and his "unoriginal" framing takes nothing away from the mastery of the final piece. Not that I'm calling Robin Hood a masterpiece, but good framing and sequencing is good framing and sequencing. I'm sure if we tried we could find many similar sequences in boom-crash blockbuster movies.

Eh, I don't care if it's shoddily made. Robin Hood is still the only anthropomorphic fox that rings my bell-el-el. Rings my bell. (My bell. Dingalingaling) my beeeeell. Rings my bell.

I was a little depressed to see that the Mowgli handoff chase in Jungle Book was so completely copied from the deed-chasing scene in Mr. Toad. And I'm surprised I never noticed it before. It's completely blatant.

Yeah, Robin Hood kinda bites. Some charming voice characterizations, a handful of okay gags, but on the whole, overlong and slooooow.

Ok, couldn't help myself - you got quoted. :D

I think this chase grab stuff is directly copied from Mickey/Donald cartoons from way back.