Home on the Range

On the data. One film, and it is worth knowing mainly for what it ended. It started as a much darker western called Sweating Bullets, about a ghost in a frontier town, and was in development for years under that shape before being rebuilt as a broad comedy about three cows. Mike Gabriel and Will Finn had both directed well-regarded work before it. Neither has directed a feature since. Disney had already decided what was going to happen. Michael Eisner's management had concluded that hand-drawn animation was finished and that computer animation was the whole future, and the studio had been closing its traditional units and retraining or releasing artists since 2002. Home on the Range was the last feature in the pipeline. It opened in April 2004, made about seventy-six million dollars worldwide against a budget around a hundred and ten, and the Burbank traditional unit shut. That turned out to be wrong, and Disney reversed it. After the company bought Pixar in 2006, John Lasseter brought hand-drawn animation back and made The Princess and the Frog in 2009. But for five years this was the last one. The film itself is widely considered the weakest thing Disney animation released in that era, which is a real claim given that era also contains Chicken Little. It is seventy-six minutes long and it does not outstay itself.

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