VHS:Kids The Fox and the Hound (A Walt Disney Classic) 1981

VHS The Fox and the Hound (A Walt Disney Classic) 1981
The Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney’s older artists,
including three of the “Nine Old Men” (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman),
and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the ’90s. Based on a book by
Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends
but are forced to become enemies. Tod and Copper barely establish their friendship before Copper begins
his training as hunting dog. Unfortunately, neither character develops much of a personality, which makes
it difficult to care about them. The screen comes alive near end of the film, when Tod and Copper have to
join forces to fight off an enormous bear. It had been years since Disney produced a sequence with this kind of feral power
–and years would pass before they surpassed it. The Fox and the Hound ranks as one of the studio’s lesser efforts,
but it suggests that better films were soon to follow. (Ages 5 and older)
Case show wear-color 83 mins.no booklet cover.