101 Dalmatians

On the data. Seven things, in four runs that do not join up. The 1961 film matters beyond its own story because of how it was made. Sleeping Beauty had been enormously expensive and had underperformed, and Disney was close to abandoning animated features. Ub Iwerks adapted a Xerox photocopying process to transfer the animators' pencil drawings directly onto the cels, which removed the entire hand-inking department and cut the cost roughly in half. That is why the film looks sketchy and outlined rather than smooth, why it has that scratchy modern style, and why it saved the division. Walt Disney disliked the look and said so. Dodie Smith's novel came out in 1956 and is still worth reading. Pongo's mate is called Missis in the book and Perdita is a separate dog entirely, which the film merges. Smith based Pongo on her own dalmatian. The live-action films are their own pair. The 1996 one was written by John Hughes, it has no talking animals at all, and its success is a large part of why Disney kept making live-action versions. 102 Dalmatians follows it directly. Cruella, in 2021, is the odd one out and knows it. It is set in the 1970s London punk scene, it is about fashion rather than dogs, and it deliberately does not line up with the 1996 films even though Glenn Close produced it. Disney announced a sequel in 2021 with the same director and star, and as of this writing it has no date, so it is not carried as an upcoming title here. 101 Dalmatian Street is a separate thing again: fifty-one short episodes on Disney Channel about dogs descended from the originals, in the present day, with no connection to any film.

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