List of unproduced Disney animated projects#2002
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This is a list of unmade and/or unreleased animated projects by The Walt Disney Company. These include feature films, short films, and television series/specials, stemming from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Disney Television Animation, and other animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Some of these projects stem from simply Walt Disney Pictures.
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1930s
= 1933 =
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| Feature film | Alice in Wonderland | The first attempt to produce an animated film adaptation of the classic novel of the same name written by Lewis Carroll. The film would be the first theatrical animated feature-length film of Disney. It was planned to be a combination of animation with live-action. Mary Pickford was attached to star as Alice.Alice in Wonderland: 50th Universary Edition, 2005 DVD However, the project was scrapped in favor of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
In 1939, there was a second attempt to produce the animated film. Following the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney purchased the film rights to Carroll's book with Sir John Tenniel's illustrations.{{cite book|last=Gabler|first=Neal|title=Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination|page=486|year=2006|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-679-75747-4}} A script and some storyboards were made by David Hall, as well as a Leica reel, but the project never materialized due to World War II. Twelve years later, a film based on the novel was released by Disney. |
=1934=
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| rowspan="2" | Mickey Mouse | "Hillbilly" "Mickey the Hillbilly" "Hillbilly Mickey" | Pete the moonshiner mistakes Mickey for a revenue agent, and Minnie Mouse appears as a hillbilly girl.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=34}} |
| "Station Agent" | Mickey works at a train station, where he encounters a troublesome kangaroo. During the development of the cartoon, the kangaroo was dropped in favor of an ostrich. At one time, Mickey was supposed to help Donald with the ostrich, before he was omitted from the plot altogether in favor of the duck. The original kangaroo elements ended up in "Mickey's Kangaroo", which was released in 1935, minus the train station. Probably at the same time as Mickey was dropped from the cartoon, the film (now starring Donald Duck) was renamed "Donald's Ostrich", which was released in 1937.{{cite book|last=Gerstein|first=David|title=Mickey and the Gang|publisher=Gemstone Publishing|year=2005|location=New York|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X4wRAAAACAAJ|isbn=978-1888472066 }} | |
| Pluto | "The Good Samaritan" | Pluto rescues a baby puppy that wrecks the house of his black mistress. A short with this plot was made for House of Mouse.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=42}} |
=1935=
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| rowspan="2" | Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Vaudeville Show" | Mickey is a magician with a hat. Donald and Pluto are his helpers. Donald is frustrated and wants to expose Mickey's act. The magic act is followed by a grand opera, featuring Mickey, Donald, Clara Cluck, and Pluto, and exposing the hat again. During the development, this was split into two cartoons, since the plot was considered too thick for a standard short, and it became "Mickey's Magic Hat". During the development of the former short, Donald was downgraded from Mickey's helper to a frustrated spectator role. It was released in 1937 as "Magician Mickey". Somewhere during the development after the split, "Mickey's Grand Opera" was produced first and kept most of the original elements, and it was released in 1936. |
| "The Sea Monster" "Mickey's Sea Monster" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are pitted against a comic sea serpent.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=34–36}} | |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | A proposed Silly Symphony based on Hans Christian Andersen's story about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=66}} |
=1936=
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| rowspan="10" | Mickey Mouse | "Davy Jones' Locker" "Pearl Divers" | Mickey goes undersea treasure hunting.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} |
| "The Deer Hunt" | Mickey sets out to hunt deer in a story that was supposed to feature all of the same plot elements as in the released cartoon The Pointer in 1939. | |
| "Desert Prospectors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy discover a ledge of 19-karat gold in the desert with the aid of an automatic gold-finder, which has been constructed by Goofy. However, the machine goes berserk when it gets too close to Donald's gold belt buckle, attacking the duck and ultimately exploding a stick of dynamite. The trio of prospectors are left in tattered disarray. | |
| "The Emperor's New Clothes" | When the Silly Symphony failed to materialize, Mickey Mouse was brought into the story and the concept was developed as either a short or featurette. At one point, Donald and Goofy were also considered for inclusion in the plot.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=66, 70}} | |
| "The Love Nest" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are interior designers who set up a honeymoon cottage for Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow.{{cite web|url=http://www.seriesam.com/barks/animcartunp.html#ancru_1936-u09%7Csymbol=DIS&page=quotesearch |title=Barks Base unfinished animated cartoons |access-date=December 12, 2010}} | |
| "Mickey's Bakery" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy bake an enormous cake for Mrs. Vandersnoot's reception.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=54–55}} | |
| "Mickey's Sunken Treasure" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting and end up on a desert island.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} | |
| "Mickey's Treasure Hunt" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting on a shipwreck.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} | |
| "Navy Mickey" also known as "Mickey in the Navy" | Mickey joins the Navy, where he encounters a bulldog admiral.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=54}} | |
| "North West Mounted" "Royal Mounted Police" "Mickey of the Mounted" "Mickey Gets His Man" "Mickey the Mountie" | Black Pete kidnaps Minnie Mouse and tries to force her to disclose the location of her secret gold mine. Intrepid mountie Mickey gives chase, but is hampered in his search by the antics of his gluttonous horse Tanglefoot. | |
| rowspan="2" | Silly Symphonies | "Snowbabies" | A proposed Silly Symphony, a sequel to "Water Babies", and a sequel/prequel to "Merbabies". The babies are now playing in the snow instead of water.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=65–66}} |
| "Struebel Peter" "Slovenly Peter" | A proposed Silly Symphony featuring Peter, an unruly boy who delights in tormenting animals. The animals, in the end, take their revenge. | |
| Silly Symphonies Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Three Bears" "Goldie Locks and Three Bears" | (Version 1:) A proposed Silly Symphony of the well-known children's story. Model sheets prove that Goldilocks was planned to resemble and possibly be voiced by Shirley Temple. Papa Bear was modeled after W.C. Fields.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=64–65}} (Version 2:) When the proposed Silly Symphony short failed to materialize, Donald was cast as Goldilocks while Pete, Goofy, and Mickey were cast in the roles of the Three Bears.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=64–65}} |
| Silly Symphonies | "Timid Elmer" "Elmer's Light o Love" | A proposed sequel to the Elmer Elephant Silly Symphony. Elmer has to watch helplessly as Tillie Tiger's ballet arts of Granville inspires Goat. When trouble comes, Goat runs away and Elmer has to save Tillie. |
| Feature film | Peter Rabbit | A proposed animated film based on the Peter Rabbit books written by Beatrix Potter. However, she refused Walt Disney's offer to make the film.{{Cite book |last=Speaker-Yuan |first=Margaret |title=Beatrix Potter |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |year=2006 |isbn=0791086550 |series=Who wrote that? |location=Philadelphia |pages=90-91 |language=en}} 82 years later, Columbia Pictures produced a live-action/CGI film adaptation version.{{cite magazine|last=Mead|first=Rebecca|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-puerile-emptiness-of-peter-rabbit|title=The Puerile Emptiness of "Peter Rabbit"|magazine=The New Yorker|date=February 21, 2018|access-date=August 16, 2020}} |
=1937=
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| rowspan="3" | Donald Duck | "Interior Decorators" | Donald and his assistant Gus Goose are entrusted with the renovation of a villa. Donald encounters a throbbing cuckoo clock. Had this film been completed, it would have been the debut of Gus Goose. |
| "Lumberjack Donald" | Donald gives the orphans a how-to lesson on how to cut down a tree. A different lumberjack Donald Duck cartoon was eventually titled Timber and released in 1941. | |
| "Nightwatchman Donald" | Donald is a night watchman in a store, in which he has to deal with a playful monkey. | |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "Clock Tower" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy open a shop to fix clocks. They are tricked by Pete into fixing Big Beth. All of these elements were dropped in favor of cleaning Big Beth. The Big Beth element was kept and released in 1937 as "Clock Cleaners". |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Dog Show" | Dropped elements from a released cartoon titled "Society Dog Show", including the original title. Pete was originally considered for the role of the judge. The Good Housekeeping page suggested that Donald helps Mickey prepare Pluto for the show, but the studio record did not match the Good Housekeeping page. |
| rowspan="3" | Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Janitors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy work in a store, cleaning it overnight.{{cite web |url=http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-love-never-released-project.html%7Csymbol=DIS&page=quotesearch |title=The Janitors |access-date=December 12, 2010}} |
| "Jungle Mickey" | (Version 1:) Mickey is a solo newsreel photographer in darkest Africa.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=36}} (Version 2:) Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are newsreel photographers in darkest Africa.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=36}} | |
| "The Legionaires" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy join the French Foreign Legion.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=54–55}} | |
| rowspan="2" | Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Follies" | (Not be confused with the 1929 short of same name) a large and ambitious projected short featuring nearly all of the original Disney characters, including Mickey and the gang, as well as some of the more popular Silly Symphonies characters, in a grand musical revue.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=54}} This eventually formed the basis of the Mickey Mouse Revue show at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. |
| "Sargasso Sea" | Mickey Mouse visits Atlantis.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} | |
| rowspan="2" | Silly Symphonies | "Japanese Symphony" | (Version 1:) Originally planned as a story, set in Japan, featuring a moth rescued from a bat.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=158–161}} (Version 2:) A romantic story about two Japanese children, which was stalled in production.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=158–161}} |
| "Minnehaha" | A proposed sequel to "Little Hiawatha", featuring Hiawatha's female counterpart, a little Indian girl named Minnehaha. Little seems to be known about the actual plot.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=176}} | |
| Feature film | Reynard the Fox The Romance of Reynard | Walt Disney originally considered producing an animated film featuring Reynard the Fox, but the project was cancelled because he felt that Reynard might be an unsuitable choice for a hero. Four decades later Reynard served as the inspiration for the main character in the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=77–82}} |
=1938=
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| rowspan="4" | Donald Duck | "The Delivery Boy" | Donald has to deliver a mechanical doll to a doll museum, and another package to another destination. Pluto was considered at one point to be included to help Donald with his job. |
| "Donald Munchausen" | Donald tells his nephews a tall tale a la Baron Munchausen, about his adventures as a National Geographic photographer in Africa. He claims to have discovered a lost world of prehistoric creatures, and to have beaten King Kong in feats of strength. | |
| "Donald's Shooting Gallery" | Donald attracts his nephews to the shooting range, by offering a box of chocolates as a prize. This proposed Donald Duck short was, in theory, an alternative story to the finished 1947 cartoon "Straight Shooters". | |
| "Lost Prospectors" | Donald and Gus Goose are prospectors lost in Death Valley. Tortured by heat and thirst, they trek across the barren terrain in search of water. They encounter various mirages, including a group of Lorelei ducks lounging by a swimming pool. One of the girls sips a cool drink and beckons to them. While Donald investigates, Gus, with the aid of his lucky derby hat, discovers a strange capricious laughing spring and is able to quench his thirst. Donald tries to trap the elusive water, but is unable to get a drop. | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Beach Picnic" | Mickey, Goofy, and Pluto have a rough day at the beach. |
| Donald Duck | "The Rubber Hunter" | Donald travels to South America in order to obtain a particularly rare species of raw rubber for new tires for his car. |
| rowspan="9" | Mickey Mouse Donald Duck | "Yukon Mickey" "Yukon Donald" | (Version 1:) Mickey discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Mickey tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=44}} (Version 2:) Donald discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Donald tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=44}} |
| "Mickey's Nephews" | A Christmas story, in which Mickey would have played Santa for the orphans.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=39–40}} | |
| "Mickey's Toothache" | Mickey inhales laughing gas and enters a nightmare world where he is threatened by dental equipment. As part of the nightmare Pete appears and attacks Mickey.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=36}} | |
| "Movie Makers" | Mickey is an amateur filmmaker in Hollywood, and Donald and Pluto set out to help him make films. | |
| "Pilgrim Mickey" | Mickey is a pilgrim setting out to hunt a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=39}} | |
| "The Salvagers" | (Version 1:) Mickey and Donald go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} (Version 2:) Mickey and Pluto go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea. This version of the film's plot came about when the Mickey and Donald story failed to materialize.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} | |
| "Spring Cleaning" | An attempt to bring back Bobo the Elephant from "Mickey's Elephant". Mickey is a servant, where he and Pluto clean Minnie Mouse's garden.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=41}} | |
| "Tanglefoot" | Mickey goes to the race track, where he encounters a horse with Allergic rhinitis.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=14–16, 39}} | |
| "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" | Mickey plays Captain Nemo in an undersea adventure.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=55}} | |
| Pluto | "Pluto's Robot Twin" | Mickey builds a robot dog to keep Pluto company, but the robot goes out of control. Pluto has to fight the robot to regain control of the household.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=42–43}} |
| Silly Symphony Featurette | "Snow White Returns" | A sequel featurette to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdizzy.com/snowwhite-diamondedition.html |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition |website=DVDizzy |access-date=December 12, 2010}} |
| Feature film | Penguin Island | This proposed feature was about a fictitious island of great auks that exists off the northern coast of Europe. The story begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the great auks as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partially blind, he mistakes the animals for people and baptizes them. |
=1939=
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| rowspan="7" | Donald Duck | "The Beaver Hunters" | Donald and Pluto go hunting for beavers, but the wily rodents foil them, even though Donald disguises himself as a tree and uses ingenious weapons, such as a rifle that fires a plumber's helper. |
| "Donald's Elephant" | Bobo becomes Donald's pet. | |
| "Donald's Outboard Motor" | Donald has trouble with a boat motor. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles". | |
| "Donald's Stratosphere Flight" | Donald has problems repairing and launching his hot air balloon. | |
| "Haunted Castle" | Donald camps outside a spooky castle but, when a strong wind blows his tent up into the air, Donald lands inside. | |
| "Museum Keeper" "Old Masters" "Donald and the Old Masters" | Donald is a museum keeper guarding a priceless collection of paintings. Some of the "paintings" in this unmade short feature Donald in various classic artworks.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=46–48}} | |
| "Tree Surgeon" | (Version 1:) Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are tree surgeons.{{cite web |url=http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2765 |title=Unknown Donald Duck |access-date=December 12, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Version 2:) Donald and Goofy are tree surgeons. Goofy asks for his doctor's tools as he bandages an unseen "patient"... really a tree. Donald and Goofy struggle to dope trees with laughing gas while various forest animals fight back. Eventually, Donald and Goofy inhale the laughing gas themselves, leading to a dizzy ballet around the woods and a bad fall for Donald into some poison ivy. Donald needs the next round of Goofy's bandages. | |
| rowspan="8" | Mickey Mouse | "Balloon Race" | Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle participate in a balloon race against Black Pete. |
| "The Band Concert" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. | |
| "Ice Antics" | a remake of On Ice. | |
| "Mickey's Man Friday" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. | |
| "Mickey's Revival Party" | An umbrella name for a project to revisit and remake several older Disney shorts. | |
| "Miracle Master" | Mickey becomes master of a magic lamp. The genie of the lamp continually shocks Mickey and his friends in the real world. | |
| "Morgan's Ghost" "Pieces of Eight" "Three Buccaneers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find a treasure map and try to follow it to the end, while at the same time trying to evade Pete. At one point, story was considered for upgrading to a feature film project. Elements of this unmade project were saved for the Donald Duck comic book story Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=56–57}} | |
| "Mountain Carvers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as artisans attempting to carve out their own version of Mount Rushmore.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=55–56}} | |
| rowspan="2" | Pluto | "Pluto and the Springs" | Pluto has trouble with a worm at the springs. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles". |
| "Pluto's Pal Bobo" | Pluto and Bobo are rivals for Mickey's attention, which is focused on a howdah that he built. | |
| rowspan="4" | Silly Symphonies | "The Flying Mouse" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| "Grasshopper and the Ants" | A remake of an earlier short of the same name. | |
| "Lullaby Land" | A remake of an earlier short of the same name. | |
| "Santa's Workshop" | A remake of an earlier short of the same name. | |
| rowspan="2" | Short film | Abdul Abulbul Amir | The story of two valiant heroes, a Russian, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, and one of the Shah's mamelukes, Abdul Abulbul Amir, who, because of their pride, end up in a fight and kill each other.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=66}} |
| Jabberwocky | The nonsense world of Lewis Carroll is brought to life in this short.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=66}} |
1940s
=1940=
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| Donald Duck | "Traveling Salesman Donald" | Donald is a traveling salesman who cons bartender Pete into buying a phony pearl, then becomes the victim of Pete's energetic revenge. The tables are turned when Pete accidentally knocks down a pillar supporting the second story of his saloon and must hold up a heavy safe to keep from being crushed. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Men in Uniform" | Mickey is a milkman who is foiled by a small kitten.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=40}} |
| Short film | Penelope and the Twelve Months | A proposed short film featuring a young girl who travels through time with the aid of a magic grandfather clock.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=169}} |
| Fantasia | Fantasia segments | After the release of Fantasia, Walt Disney originally planned to have the film in continual release, but with new segments with replacing the older ones. However, the idea was scrapped after Fantasia failed at the box office and the idea was never revisited for the remainder of Disney's lifetime, although he produced spiritual successors such as Make Mine Music (1946) and Melody Time (1948).{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=153–154}} |
=1941=
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| Donald Duck | "Calling Dr. Duck" | Donald is a tree surgeon. The plot is very similar to the earlier "Tree Surgeon". |
| Donald & Goofy | "Ditch Diggers" | Donald and Goofy work in construction for Pete.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=53}} |
| Donald Duck | "Sculptor Donald" | Donald enters a contest for the best wax sculpture, but his nephews sabotage his statue with a blow torch. |
| Health for America | "Public Enemy No. 1" | An unproduced Health for America educational short about how flies spread disease. The plot of this film is very similar to "The Winged Scourge".{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=94}} |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Elopement" | Mickey tries to help Minnie escape her stern Uncle Mortimer's house so he can get her to a quickie wedding chapel. |
| rowspan="3" | Feature film | Chanticleer | A rooster believes his crowing makes the sun rise.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=81–82}} |
| Don Quixote | A man named Alonso Quixano (or Quijano), a retired country gentleman nearing 50 years old, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food, and so much reading. He decides to become a knight-errant, and with his fat, food-loving, squire Sancho Panza, sets out on an hilarious misadventure.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=172}} | |
| The Hound of Florence Inspector Bones | Based on the novel by Felix Salten (who was also the author of Bambi, a Life in the Woods), the story is about a detective who turns into a dog. The dog detective in "Inspector Bones" was a direct parody of Basil Rathbone's role in the Sherlock Holmes films, which were very popular in the 1940s. Inspector Bones and Dr. Beagle are pitted against either Professor Mongrel ("The Mad Dog of London") or Sir Cyril Sealyham. The story would have featured Tex Avery-style self-referential jokes. The project later inspired the 1959 live-action comedy The Shaggy Dog.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=162–167}} |
=1942=
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| rowspan="4" | Donald Duck | "Donald's Tank" | While cleaning an armored tank, Donald accidentally explodes some grenades near his sergeant, Black Pete. To escape Pete's wrath, he takes off in the tank, crashing through the officer's mess and separating a general from his T-bone steak. Donald's problems are compounded when an experimental television monitor inside the tank is activated, and he confuses its telecast for scenes of the passing terrain. Straying across the French line, he spoils a surprise attack on Adolf Hitler's Panzer division. |
| "Guerilla Duck" | A continuation of Donald's wartime exploits has him trying to intercept a Japanese troop carrier.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=98}} | |
| "Madame XX" | On a mission to deliver secret plans to the war office, private Donald Duck is waylaid by a Garboesque foreign spy Madame XX. She steals the plans and escapes in a motorboat, but Donald pursues her and ultimately recovers the stolen plans.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=99}} | |
| "A Brazilian Symphony: Caxangá" | Donald, José Carioca (the parrot from Saludos Amigos), and Goofy attempt to play "caxangá", or the Brazilian matchbox game; Donald is constantly driven to the point of madness in his attempt to master this complex, nerve-wracking game. | |
| Goofy | "How to Be a Cowboy" | A projected "how-to' short featuring Goofy as the chief cowboy on a dude ranch. A similar concept would be used for the short Two-Gun Goofy.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=50}} |
| Wartime | "Army Psycho-Therapy" | An unproduced army training film dealing with stress, the adrenal glands, and the importance of discipline.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=97}} |
| rowspan="5" | Short film | The Blue Orchid | Based on Venezuelan folklore about animals and spirits in the jungle who repel their vision of man. |
| Chichicastenango | A surreal visual tour of Chichicastenango. | |
| A House Divided | A proposed wartime short about rationing, pitting the Big Bad Wolf as a black marketeer against the Three Little Pigs, who have to be taught not to waste resources.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=100}} | |
| The Lady with the Rad Pomom | A Tauchan Bird encounters an Aracuan Bird, and they fight over the lady with the Rad Pomom. | |
| Lima Story | Adventurous Lima finds himself in the South American Lake Titicaca. Elements of this story ended up in Saludos Amigos. | |
| Goofy | Lumberjack Goofy | Goofy chops down a tree that fails on him, and he gets stuck on the band of the power saw. |
| Short film | The Near-Sighted Overbird | The hero of the story is nearsighted, which continuously causes him trouble. He mistakes a wineskin for his home.{{cite book|last=Kaufman|first=J.B.|title=South of Border with Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program, 1941-1948|publisher=Disney Editions|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjdePgAACAAJ|isbn=978-1-423-11193-1}} |
| Feature film | The Ostrich Who Laid the Golden Egg | In a tale told by the Ostrich People of Prax when asked "Where did you come from?", there seems to be nothing conclusive about the tale.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} |
Note: Disney studios produced an animated sequence for Samuel Goldwyn's film Up in Arms, which was unused in the final version of the film.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=77}}
=1943=
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| rowspan="2" | Goofy | "Army Story" | In the Army, Goofy becomes romantically involved with a pretty WAC.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=99–100}} |
| "How to Be a Commando" | A proposed Goofy World War II short wherein Goofy dreams of going up against Adolf Hitler and goes through commando training camps to achieve his goal.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=99}} | |
| Mickey Mouse | "Chicken Little" | The sky is falling on Donald, Goofy and Mickey. This story was supposed to be either a featurette or short. It also starred Jiminy Cricket and Daisy.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} |
| Pluto | "The Good Samaritan" | Pluto rescues a cute little puppy from the snow, who subsequently begins to tear the house apart, and Pluto has to rescue him again.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=42}} |
| Private Snafu | "Snafu" | One proposed Private Snafu short was planned by Disney, but was turned down by Frank Capra when Disney demanded commercial rights to the character and a high production cost. It consisted mostly of gags where the worst soldier in the army constantly fouls things up. |
| rowspan="4" | Wartime | Ajax the Stool Pigeon Roland XIII | A short that was to feature a bird performing as a military carrier pigeon, despite having a fear of heights.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=104–106}} |
| Democracy | A proposed wartime short comparing American democracy with the society of Nazi Germany through the trials of an immigrant family, the Joneses.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=102}} | |
| Melting Pot | An unmade propaganda short with a Nazi lecturer extolling the virtues of the German way. This might be an alternate version of "Education for Death".{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=102}} | |
| The Square World | This proposed wartime short satires the conformist society of Nazi Germany. This was considered to be extended into a feature film project at one point.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=102–104}} | |
| Bambi | Bambi's Children | A sequel to the original Bambi film, dealing with Bambi's adult life. |
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | The Gremlins | (Version 1:) A feature film based on the novel by Roald Dahl of the same name about Gremlins that wreck airplanes.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=106–108}} (Version 2:) A short film based on the novel by Roald Dahl of the same name about Gremlins that wreck airplanes. The short was proposed after plans for a feature film adaptation fell apart. Warner Bros. eventually released the Bugs Bunny short Falling Hare and Russian Rhapsody using the same premise.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=106–108}} |
| The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen | The film was intended to be a co-production with Samuel Goldwyn, who also wanted to produce a film based on Andersen's life. It was decided at some point that part of the film would be shot in live action, with animated segments depicting some of Andersen's tales. These included The Emperor's New Clothes, The Emperor's Nightingale, Through the Picture Frame, The Little Fir-Tree, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and The Little Mermaid.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=70–77}} |
=1944=
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| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "La Loca Mariposa" | Donald is a butterfly collector visiting the country of Venezuela. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Intros and Outros" | Mickey presents the CIAA Health for America series. Note: These intros would have gone by the name of the actual CIAA films. |
| Pluto | "Pluto and the Anteater" | Pluto encounters an aardvark in South America in a very strange manner. |
=1945=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Chanticleer and Reynard | The stories of Chanticleer the rooster and Reynard the fox are featured in the same film after plans fail in each of the earlier attempts to bring them separately to the screen.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=82}} |
=1946=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="3" | Donald Duck | "Caxanga" | (Version 1:) Donald's heart is captured by a female parrot after his frustration over the South American game caxanga.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=119}} (Version 2:) Donald and Goofy are introduced by Joe to the game of caxanga. Frustrated over the game, Donald throws a tantrum. The next night, he cannot get the game out of his head. |
| "Share and Share Alike" | Donald and his three nephews fight over an apple. Pencil tests for this proposed short still exist.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=48}} | |
| "Trouble Shooters" | Donald Duck is a telephone and power linesman who has some trouble with the same woodpecker that once destroyed his camera.{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdizzy.com/donaldvol4.html |title=Chronological Donald Volume 4 |access-date=December 12, 2010}} | |
| rowspan="3" | (n/a) | Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character for Large Orchestra | This proposed short is another take on the Don Quixote tale. This time, the Disney animators set it around Richard Strauss' tone poem.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=172}} |
| Fiesta of the Flowers | Depicts the botanical action of the flowers on South America. | |
| On the Trail | Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite is brought to life, set in the light and color of southern desert.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=175}} | |
| Feature film | Carnival Surprise Package Cuban Carnival | A proposed third South of the Border Disney feature film.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=118–119}} The segments would have included: "Brazilian Rhapsody", an extended version of what would later become "Blame it on the Samba", released as part of Melody Time in 1948; "The Laughing Gauchito" featuring the character first seen in "The Three Caballeros", who learns he has the ability to shatter glass with his laugh. He becomes a star, but his fame ends when his voice deepens as he becomes a man; "San Blas Boy" is about a boy named Chico and his dog Kiki, who are lost in a storm. "Cape Dance" was a surreal colourful fantasy; "Rancho in the Sky", and four others featuring Donald Duck, José Carioca, Panchito Pistoles, and a newly introduced small rooster from Cuba; Miguelito Maracas.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=175}} |
| (n/a) | Sonja Henie Fantasy | A proposed Fantasia short would have been either animated or a live action/animation mix featuring the famed ice skater.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=169}} |
=1947=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck Goofy | "Cowpoke Donald" "Old Geronimo" | Version 1: Donald sets out to capture the roughest, toughest steer in the whole state of Texas.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=50–52}} Version 2: Goofy sets out to capture the roughest, toughest steer in the whole state of Texas.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=50–52}} |
| Goofy | "How to Train a Dog" | Goofy tries to teach Pluto some new tricks.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=50}} |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey and Claudius the Bee" | Mickey is shrunk to the size of a bee and is given a tour of the hive by Claudius.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=56}} |
| Short Film | Trees with Faces | A one-shot animated short that was supposed to be about the life of Native Americans, featuring animated bits about the raven's mischief.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=175–176}} |
Note: Fun and Fancy Free, released in 1947, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.
=1948=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Pluto | "Pluto's White Elephant" | Pluto encounters Bobo in the last attempt to bring Bobo back onto the screen. Little is known about the plot. |
| "Scrambled Eggs" | Pluto encounters the Ugly Duckling. This story was dropped from production for unknown reasons. | |
| Feature film | Tintin | In 1948, Hergé wrote to Walt Disney hoping he would adapt the Adventures of Tintin comic strip into a potential animated feature. Gil Souto, a publicity director for Disney, turned down the proposal as Disney was occupied with Cinderella at this time,{{cite book |last=Lye |first=Sian |title=The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin |year=2020 |pages=119–120 |publisher=Pen and Sword Books |isbn=978-1-526-76391-4}} though Hergé did receive a Mickey Mouse trophy and a picture showing Tintin and Mickey shaking hands decades later. |
=1949=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | Currier and Ives | Planned for release sometime in the late 1940s, it was to be a "combination film" (live action mixed with animation). It was eventually dropped because the cost involved would have been too high. At the time, there had been a slate of combination pictures with the box office, each being less than its predecessor.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} |
| Hiawatha | Hiawatha was a follower of The Great Peacemaker, a prophet and spiritual leader, who proposed the unification of the Iroquois people. This proposed feature was considered to be taken in a similar direction as Fantasia, though it would feature a single story line.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=180–182}} |
Note: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, released in 1949, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.
1950s
=1951=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Mickey Mouse | "Plight of the Bumble Bee" | Mickey produces a stage musical number with Hector the Bee.{{cite web |last=Korkis |first=Jim |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mickey-mouse-in-plight-of-the-bumblebee/ |title=Mickey Mouse in 'Plight of the Bumblebee' |website=Cartoon Research |date=August 19, 2019 |access-date=November 25, 2023}} |
| "The Talking Dog" | Pluto gets roped into becoming a ventriloquist's dummy in a circus sideshow. When Mickey figures out that his dog is missing, he starts looking for him and finds him in the hands of Pete. Mickey battles Pete to get Pluto back. Some animation that was done on this short was dropped. It was animated for a pencil test.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=41}} | |
| Feature film | Don Quixote | A second attempt for this proposed feature film had the same basic plot as the 1940 take on the Don Quixote story, but the animation would have had a similar style as seen in UPA animated shorts and features of the time.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=172–174}} |
=1955=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Donald Duck | "Money-sorting Machine" "Donald-Scrooge Opus" | Donald works at Scrooge's Money Bin, operating a money-sorting machine that runs by power. When Donald is away at lunch, the radio announces a plague of rats is loose in the city. Scrooge closes and shutters all of his windows and bolts the door. He sits down, terrified, to eat his cheese sandwich but, before he can begin, he is besieged by a determined rat who has smelled the cheese from afar. The rat threatens to destroy a $10,000-dollar bill if Scrooge does not order the most expensive cheese in the world. |
| Feature film | Babes in Toyland | Walt Disney announced the film in 1955 as an animated feature.{{cite news|last=Hopper|first=Hedda|author-link=Hedda Hopper|title=Disney's next cartoon film will be 'Babes in Toyland{{' "}}|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=May 17, 1955|id={{ProQuest|179440596}}}} In 1956, he said he wanted to make it the following year, and assigned Bill Walsh to produce and Sidney Miller to direct.{{cite news|last=Hopper|first=Hedda|title='Babes in Toyland' Will Be Top Disney Musical in 1957|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=October 20, 1956|page=22}} Filming was delayed, then the project was reactivated as the live-action 1961 movie of the same name. |
=1959=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| (n/a) | Prairie Rhythm Pretty Red Wing | A planned satire of the classic Western film stereotypes about an Indian girl and a white trapper.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=174}} |
| Short film | Barefoot Boy | This proposed short film was to be an adaptation of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem set in Norman Rockwell's "Never Land".{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=174}} |
1960s
=1960=
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| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | The Emperor's Nightingale | This proposed film would have used paper cut-out animation to tell the traditional tale, but with a much finer and more delicate Asian style than the earlier 1959 short Noah's Ark. At one point, Mickey Mouse was considered to be included in the plot.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=70}} |
| Chanticleer | Having just completed One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Ken Anderson and Marc Davis were looking for new ideas for the studio's next feature in which they located earlier conceptual artwork from the 1940s and attempted to adapt the story into an animated film. However, it was ruled that only one film would go into production at the time, and Chanticleer was turned down once again when the studio decided to go for Bill Peet's adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.{{cite web|url=http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2001/01/01/307.aspx#sthash.gWALcRJm.dpbs|title=The "Chanticleer" Saga -- Part 2|first=Jim|last=Hill|website=Jim Hill Media|date=December 31, 1999|access-date=August 14, 2019}} |
=1963=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;" | Series | style="width:100pt;" | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2"| Feature film | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", involving a little girl who breaks into the bears' house.{{sfn|Solomon|1995}}{{page needed|date=September 2022}} |
| Little Red Riding Hood | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of the Charles Perrault's tale "Little Red Riding Hood", involving a little girl who tries to travel to her grandmother, but she is pursued by a wolf.{{sfn|Solomon|1995}}{{page needed|date=September 2022}} |
=1967=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Hansel and Gretel | This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's tale "Hansel and Gretel", involving a brother and a sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and gingerbread.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=87–89}} |
=1969=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | The Bremen Town Musicians | The story about a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, who are soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=89}} |
| Hootsie the Owl Wise Little Owl | A second attempt of this proposed feature about a misfit owl who sleeps at night and is awake during the day because he hatched during the day. He is an embarrassment to his parents and has no friends. This is basically the same plot as the "Hootsie the Owl" short proposed in 1940, but with the addition of a snake character, similar to Kaa in The Jungle Book.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|pp=186–187}} |
1970s
=1973=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Scruffy | An adaptation of the children's book by Paul Gallico, the story centered around the titular Barbary ape, who is the honorable leader of a family of apes. Set during World War II, off the coast of Gibraltar, Scruffy falls in love with Amelia, a pampered pet ape, and together they evade capture from the Nazis.{{sfn|Solomon|1995|p=167}} When the time came to approve the project, the studio leaders decided to approve The Rescuers for production.{{cite web|url=http://jimhillmedia.com/columnists1/b/floyd_norman/archive/2007/06/12/toon-tuesday-remembering-fred-lucky-of-wdfa-s-story-department-1938-1999.aspx | last=Norman | first=Floyd | author-link=Floyd Norman | title=Toon Tuesday: Remembering Fred Lucky of WDFA's Story Department (1938 - 1999) | publisher=Jim Hill Media | date=June 11, 2007 | access-date=February 28, 2015}} |
=1976=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | The Hero from Otherwhere | Based on the book by Jay Williams, it was conceived as a live action/animated film about two schoolboys with different attributes who are transported to a strange planet whose black leader persuades them to help destroy the wolf Fenris that has been ravaging the land.{{cite web|url=http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/02/disney-is-looking.html | last=Deja | first=Andreas | author-link=Andreas Deja | title=Disney is looking..... | work=Deja View | via=Blogger | date=February 27, 2012 | access-date=April 11, 2015}}{{cite magazine| title=Corporations: Running Disney Walt's Way | url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914546,00.html | magazine=Time | date=August 16, 1976 | access-date=April 11, 2015}} |
| Spacecraft One | The story was to tell about a mile-long spaceship in its search for life on other planets. |
1980s
=1980=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" | Feature film | Musicana | An early version of what eventually became Fantasia 2000. Some segments of the planned film were to be titled "Finlandia", involving a fight between the Ice God and Sun Goddess; an African segment about a curious monkey and a Rain God, including many hippos, lions and elephants; "The Emperor's Nightingale", based on the Andersen story, which would have starred Mickey Mouse as the keeper of the nightingale; a southern jazz story titled "By the Bayou", which included many frogs, including caricatures of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong; a segment set in the Andes with a beautiful girl/bird; and a version of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", featuring tropical birds. It was cut due to financial issues in favor of The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron.{{cite web |last=Hill |first=Jim |url=http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2010/11/29/disney_2700_s-musicana_3A00_-pick-up-a-copy-of-fantasia-blu-ray-to-learn-more-.aspx |title=Wanna learn more about Disney's "Musicana" ? Then go pick up a copy of the "Fantasia" Blu-ray |website=Jim Hill Media |date=December 29, 2010 |access-date=December 28, 2011}} |
| The Little Broomstick | A few months after Mary Stewart's novel of the same name was published in 1971, Walt Disney Productions acquired the film rights. In 1980, director Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman decided to adapt it into an animated feature following the release of The Fox and the Hound, but studio management felt the project was too similar to Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Also, they wanted the animation department to produce more ambitious films such as The Black Cauldron. In 2017, the book was adapted into the Japanese animated film Mary and the Witch's Flower by Studio Ponoc as their first film.{{cite news|last=Hill|first=Jim|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/where-disney-failed-studio-ponoc-succeeds-with-its_us_5a600e56e4b067e1058ff218|title=Where Disney failed, Studio Ponoc succeeds with its debut animated feature, "Mary and the Witch's Flower"|work=The Huffington Post|date=January 17, 2018|access-date=September 3, 2018}} |
=1981=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Catfish Bend | Based on the book series by Ben Lucien Burman, it follows the journey of several animal residents in Catfish Bend. Following several treatments, it was never greenlit for production, and Disney dropped its option on the books.{{cite book|last=Hulett|first=Steve|title=Mouse In Transition: An Insider's Look at Disney Feature Animation|publisher=Theme Park Press|year=2014|pages=17–21, 60|isbn=978-1-941-50024-8}} |
=1983=
=1985=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2"| Feature film | Mistress Masham's Repose | Before the release of The Black Cauldron, producer Joe Hale and his production team were working on an adaptation of the T. H. White novel. While Roy E. Disney supported the project, Jeffrey Katzenberg disliked it. Eventually, Hale and most of the team were fired, and the project languished.{{cite book|last=Stewart|first=James|title=DisneyWar|edition=1st|year=2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/disneywar00jame_0/page/69 69]|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0-684-80993-1|author-link=James B. Stewart|title-link=DisneyWar}} |
| Monkey | When Pixar was still a part of Lucasfilm in 1985, Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith began developing a computer-animated film titled Monkey, which was adapted from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. After they were spun off as an independent company in 1986, they partnered with the Japanese company Shogakukan, owners of the publishing company Shueisha. However, the project was discontinued when it was apparent the CGI would be too expensive to produce and Shogakukan backed out.{{Cite book |last=Price |first=David A. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307265753 |title=The Pixar Touch |isbn=978-0-307-26575-3 |publisher=Random House |year=2008 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307265753/page/68/mode/1up 68–69], [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307265753/page/86/mode/1up 86] |url-access=registration}} |
=1986=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | Dufus | Then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner proposed that Disney Feature Animation should develop an animated adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye, since Eisner was a fan of the original book. However, knowing that J. D. Salinger would refuse to sell the film rights, Eisner then suggested to do an animated film that dealt with similar topics from the book, but with German shepherds as the characters. The film was briefly mentioned in the Disney+ film Howard; where in 1986, lyricist Howard Ashman was sent a letter from then-Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg in regards to collaborating with the studio on one of their films. Dufus was listed, alongside a sequel to Mary Poppins and The Little Mermaid.{{cite web|last=Taylor|first=Drew|url=https://collider.com/disney-catcher-in-the-rye-animated-movie-explained/|title=Disney Once Tried to Make an Animated 'Catcher in the Rye' — But Wait, There's More|website=Collider|date=August 3, 2020|access-date=August 17, 2020}} |
=1988=
=1989=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mickey Mouse | Swabbies | The story found Mickey, Donald, and Goofy out of work, out of luck, and in need of a job. They enlist in the Navy and go to boot camp with Pete as their exasperated drill instructor. They meet their feminine counterparts—Minnie, Daisy and Clarabelle—who are all WAVES. After they put to sea, they encounter a submarine full of the Beagle Boys, who all speak a Russian-sounding gibberish. The entire film was storyboarded and recorded, and an animatic was created. Complete model sheets of all of the characters were printed, and layouts and some animation had begun before the project came to an abrupt halt.{{cite web|url=http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20Movies/Swabbies/ |title=Disney Animation Archive: Deleted Movies/Swabbies/index.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205112854/http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20Movies/Swabbies/ | publisher=Animationarchive.net |archive-date=2011-12-05 |access-date=2011-12-28}} |
1990s
=1990=
=1991=
=1992=
=1993=
=1994=
=1996=
=1998=
= 1999 =
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;" | Series || style="width:100pt;" | Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pepper Ann | Pepper Ann's Rio Adventure | In 1999, a theatrical animated film based on the Disney's One Saturday Morning series Pepper Ann was in development at Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Pictures under the name Pepper Ann's Rio Adventure. The movie would have followed Pepper Ann's soccer team being invited to Rio De Janeiro as part of an event where they try to stop a land developer to deforest the Amazon River. The movie was scrapped for unknown reasons. However, concept art of the film by animation director Richard Bowman was discovered on Ebay in February 2025.{{Cite web |title=DID YOU KNOW: A theatrical feature film based on the Disney Channel series 'Pepper Ann' was in development at Disney Television Animation titled 'Pepper Ann's Rio Adventure'. Concept art of a movie poster by animation director Richard Bowman is all we have from it. |url=https://x.com/LostMediaBuster/status/1892801423609348216}} |
2000s
=2000=
=2001=
=2002=
=2003=
=2004=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature film | One for Sorrow, Two for Joy | Based on the Clive Woodall novel of the same name, it is set in an imaginary kingdom of Birddom and follows the plight of a plucky robin tasked with saving the world from evil magpies. In 2004, Disney entered negotiations with Woodall to acquire the film rights in hopes of producing an animated adaptation.{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/news/inside-move-u-k-grocer-rings-up-novel-deal-1117901647/ | title=Inside Move: U.K. grocer rings up novel deal | magazine=Variety | date=March 14, 2004 | access-date=June 27, 2014}} |
=2005=
=2006=
=2007=
In June 2007, Disneytoon Studios president Sharon Morrill stepped down, and the animation studio units under the Walt Disney Company underwent corporate restructuring as the Pixar leadership assumed more control. Thus, most sequels, plus a prequel series, out of DisneyToon Studios were cancelled.{{cite web| url=http://www.awn.com/news/disneytoon-studios-prexy-morrill-steps-down | title=DisneyToon Studios Prexy Morrill Steps Down | last=Baisley | first=Sarah | publisher=Animation World Magazine | date=June 21, 2007 | access-date=March 7, 2015}}{{cite web|last=Hill|first=Jim|url=http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2007/06/21/say-so-long-to-direct-to-video-sequels-disneytoon-studios-tunes-out-sharon-morrill.aspx|title=Say "So Long !" to direct-to-video sequels : DisneyToon Studios tunes out Sharon Morrill|website=Jim Hill Media|date=June 20, 2007}}
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:150pt;"| Series || style="width:100pt;"| Title || Description | ||
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| The Jungle Book | The Jungle Book 3 | In 2003, a third installment to The Jungle Book was planned. It would have been about Baloo and Shere Khan being captured and sold off to a Russian circus, and Mowgli, Shanti, Ranjan, and Bagheera deciding to save them both. Over the course of the film, Shere Khan regrets his hatred against humanity because of his capture, and eventually reforms,{{cite web|url=http://mimi-na.deviantart.com/journal/This-is-a-Sequel-Love-Zone-242150222 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224545/http://mimi-na.deviantart.com/journal/This-is-a-Sequel-Love-Zone-242150222 | title=This is a Sequel-Love Zone | publisher=deviantArt | date=October 23, 2006 | access-date=June 27, 2014 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}} but the project never materialized. |
| The Aristocats | The Aristocats II | The direct-to-video sequel to the original 1970 film. The story was to have concerned Marie, Duchess's daughter, who becomes smitten by another kitten aboard a luxury cruise ship. However, she and her family must soon take on a jewel thief on the open seas.{{cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Josh|url=http://animatedviews.com/2013/from-snow-queen-to-pinocchio-ii-robert-reeces-animated-adventures-in-screenwriting/|title=From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece's animated adventures in screenwriting|website=Animated Views|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=August 28, 2013}} |
| Chicken Little | Chicken Little: The Ugly Duckling Story | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel to Chicken Little. The plot would have centered around Abby Mallard competing with a new schoolgirl for Chicken Little's affection.{{cite interview|url=http://animatedviews.com/2008/disneytoon-studios-and-the-sequels-that-never-were-with-tod-carter/|title=DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter|interviewer=Jérémie Noyer|subject=Tod Carter|website=Animated Views|date=October 20, 2008|access-date=November 23, 2016}} |
| rowspan="2" | Meet the Robinsons | Meet the Robinsons: First Date | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel to Meet the Robinsons. |
| Pet Project | A 6-minute short intended to be included on the film's DVD release, entailing the story of how Bowler Hat Guy was able to retrieve, raise and train a giant dinosaur to ravage against Lewis.{{cite web|url=http://facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2070010499717674&id=448057295246344 | title=DVD SHORT | publisher=Facebook | date=September 29, 2018 | access-date=April 9, 2022}} Progress was slightly swindled when Ed Catmull said that he didn't want the studio to devote any more time with creating extra shorts for DVD releases because they "don't pay for themselves",{{cite web|url=http://facebook.com/watch/?v=271078963530609 | title=Pet Project | publisher=Facebook | date=September 29, 2018 | access-date=April 9, 2022}} and was eventually cancelled after the second draft animatic was completed.{{cite web|url=http://facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2105893256129398&id=448057295246344 | title=MY PET IS PUT DOWN | publisher=Facebook | date=October 27, 2018 | access-date=April 9, 2022}} | |
| Snow White | The Seven Dwarfs | At one point, Disney was developing a 3D-animated, The Lord of the Rings-like franchise series of direct-to-DVD films which would chronicle the adventures of the Seven Dwarfs before they met Snow White. The planned series faced creative differences, and was eventually scrapped. The concept was however, revived into a television series titled The 7D which aired on Disney XD from 2014 to 2016.{{cite web|last=Armstrong|first=Josh|url=http://animatedviews.com/2013/mike-disa-and-the-seven-dwarfs-how-the-snow-white-prequel-became-a-dopey-movie/|title=Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie|website=Animated Views|date=August 14, 2013|access-date=August 11, 2014}} |
| Pinocchio | Pinocchio II | The canceled direct-to-video sequel to the original 1940 film. According to Robert Reece, who wrote a script for it, Pinocchio would have gone on a quest to find out why life is so unfair sometimes. |
| Disney Princess | Disney Princess Enchanted Tales | Initially, after the release of the direct-to-video film Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, there was to be an entire series of Enchanted Tales direct-to-video film installments. |
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| Series | Untitled Variety Show | In 2016, Uncle Grandpa alumni Audie Harrison developed an untitled variety series featuring short segments starring Chip and Dale, Cheshire Cat, Lilo & Stitch, and Tigger.{{cite web |url=https://www.audieharrison.com/disneyvarietyshow |title=Disney Variety Show |website=AudieHarrison.com |access-date=March 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113133324/https://www.audieharrison.com/disneyvarietyshow/ |archive-date=January 13, 2024 |url-status=live}} |
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| Win or Lose | Untitled Win or Lose follow-up series | Pixar was working on an untitled follow-up series, but it was quietly cancelled.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Drew |date=2023-07-05 |title=Inside Pixar's Existential Crisis and Leadership Change |url=https://www.thewrap.com/pixar-existential-crisis-elemental-lightyear/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Maca |date=2023-07-08 |title=Pixar's Win or Lose Follow-Up Project Reportedly Canceled |url=https://movieweb.com/pixar-win-or-lose-follow-up-cancel/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=MovieWeb |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Cimaglio |first=Zachary |date=2023-07-07 |title=Disney+ Quietly Cancels Animated Pixar Spinoff Series |url=https://www.cbr.com/disney-quietly-cancels-animated-pixar-spinoff-series/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=CBR |language=en}} |
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| rowspan="2"| Feature film | Blade | A Pixar film that was supposed to come out between Cars 3 and Toy Story 4, according to animator Christian Roman.{{Cite web |title=Forum |url=https://pixarpost.com/forum |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Pixar Post |language=en-US}} |
| BeFri | A Pixar film that was supposed to release sometime after Elemental, according to animator Christian Roman. |
See also
- List of unproduced 20th Century Studios animated projects
- List of unproduced Marvel Comics projects
- List of unproduced television projects based on Marvel Comics
- List of unproduced films based on Marvel Imprints
- List of unproduced Universal Pictures animated projects
- List of unproduced DreamWorks Animation projects
- List of unproduced Paramount Pictures animated projects
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Solomon|first=Charles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5TWAAAAMAAJ|title=The Disney That Never Was|publisher=Disney Editions|year=1995|location=New York|isbn=978-0-786-86037-1}}
{{Disney theatrical animated features}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:List of unproduced Disney animated shorts and feature films}}
Unmade and unreleased Disney animated shorts and feature films, List of