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Cinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years

Cinderella opened in 1950, the first full single-story animated feature of the postwar recovery Disney produced after package films. Live-action reference and a tighter budget are the 1950 machine, not 1937’s. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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Cinderella opened in 1950, the first full single-story animated feature of the postwar recovery Disney produced after package films. He did not sew the ballgown. Live-action reference and a tighter budget are the 1950 machine, not 1937’s. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (opens in a new tab) (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

The 1946 layoff row is the trough; this is the recovery product. Education mix is real and not cloned. Television deals soon follow on another row. Lady and the Tramp is a later title, not this.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

A recovery feature that kept a studio’s craft line alive is an industrial path. High confidence on 1950. Later live-action remakes are not his acts.

Shared responsibility is part of Cinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years. Naming Walt Disney does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1950-02-15 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Walt Disney

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He produced Cinderella as the recovery feature. The Nine Old Men and a reduced staff animated. Direct producing after the layoff trough.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactCinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 15 February 1950 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsAmerican Film Institute · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — The Walt Disney CompanyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

AFI Catalog records Cinderella 1950. Britannica’s company article independently treats the early-1950s return to features. D23 history lists the title as a turning hit. No unique profit census is invented.

Established: 15 February 1950 U.S. release under Disney producing. Not established: a unique job-recall total from this title alone. Not 1937. Not 1955 park.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Cinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorWalt Disney
  2. contributed toFactCinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Cinderella (1950) returns the studio to a full animated fairy-tale feature after the 1940s package years. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-cinderella-1950

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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