The Rescuers

On the data. Two films, and both of them are firsts of some kind. Margery Sharp wrote nine novels about a mouse society that rescues prisoners, starting in 1959. Disney bought the first in the 1960s, abandoned it twice, and finally made the film in 1977, taking most of its plot from the second book rather than the first. The 1977 film was the studio's biggest animated success of the decade and the last one made largely by the generation Walt Disney had hired. It is also harder than people remember: the child at the centre of it is being held in a swamp by a woman who is quite prepared to let her drown, and the film does not soften that. The Rescuers Down Under, in 1990, is the technical one. It was the first sequel to a main Disney animated feature ever released to cinemas, and the first feature produced entirely with CAPS, the digital ink and paint system Disney built with Pixar. That is why the colours are so much cleaner than any Disney film before it. It opened badly against Home Alone, Disney pulled its advertising within a week, and it put the studio off theatrical sequels for more than a decade. One other thing follows this film around and is true. In 1999 Disney recalled about three and a half million home video copies of the 1977 film, because two frames in the middle of it contained a photographic image of a topless woman, inserted during post-production and never spotted. The recall happened, the frames were removed, and nobody has ever publicly identified who did it.

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