That focus on detail gives Robin Hood ’s anthropomorphized animals more of a sense of physical reality. “Disney animators have always studied their subjects well,” Dubois says.

And even now, with the feature films underway, you might think Hollywood to be obsessed with it. But, out of all those, none took it home quite like Disney’s animated 1973 classic ‘Robin Hood’.

Once again, Disney took a tale and gave it tails in “Robin Hood,” The animated film, released in 1973, keeps to the old “steal from the rich, feed the poor” mantra, but once… ...