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

Date: 1950

## The fact

Cinderella opened in 1950, the first full single-story animated feature of the postwar recovery [Disney](/people/walt-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/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (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. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: AFI Catalog of Feature Films (https://catalog.afi.com/; American Film Institute).

## Significance

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. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

## What is established and what is not

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. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — The Walt Disney Company at https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

## People

- Walt Disney: https://factrail.ai/people/walt-disney

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://catalog.afi.com/
- https://www.britannica.com/money/Disney-Company

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-cinderella-1950