Editing Animation (section)

===Features before CGI===
[[File:Quirino Cristiani con una figura.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Italian-Argentine cartoonist [[Quirino Cristiani]] showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character ''El Peludo'' (based on President [[Hipólito Yrigoyen|Yrigoyen]]) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film ''[[El Apóstol]]''{{sfn|Bendazzi|1994|p=49}}]]
In 1917, Italian-Argentine director [[Quirino Cristiani]] made the first feature-length film ''[[El Apóstol]]'' (now [[lost film|lost]]), which became a critical and commercial success. It was followed by Cristiani's ''[[Sin dejar rastros]]'' in 1918, but one day after its premiere, the film was confiscated by the government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=animafest.hr |url=https://www.animafest.hr/en/2009/film/read_all/quirino_cristiani_the_mystery_of_the_first_animated_movies |access-date=18 February 2024 |website=www.animafest.hr}}</ref>

After working on it for three years, [[Lotte Reiniger]] released the German feature-length [[silhouette animation]] ''[[Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed]]'' in 1926, the oldest extant animated feature.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Maria |date=15 December 2020 |title=The Lasting Legacy of Lotte Reiniger |url=https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/lasting-legacy-lotte-reiniger/ |access-date=8 August 2023 |website=[[Australian Centre for the Moving Image]]}}</ref>

In 1937, [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Studios]] premiered their first animated feature ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'', still one of the highest-grossing traditional animation features {{as of|lc=y| May 2020}}.<ref name="snowwhite1">Total prior to 50th anniversary reissue: {{cite news |last=Culhane |first=John |title='Snow White' At 50: Undimmed Magic |date=12 July 1987 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/movies/snow-white-at-50-undimmed-magic.html |access-date=|quote=By now, it has grossed about $330&nbsp;million worldwide – so it remains one of the most popular films ever made. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604200704/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/movies/snow-white-at-50-undimmed-magic.html |archive-date=4 June 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="snowwhite2">1987 and 1993 grosses from North America: {{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Releases |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=snowwhite.htm |access-date= |quote=1987 release – $46,594,212; 1993 release – $41,634,471 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529094807/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=snowwhite.htm |archive-date=29 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Fleischer studios followed this example in 1939 with ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' with some success. Partly due to foreign markets being cut off by the Second World War, Disney's next features ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' (both 1940), Fleischer Studios' second animated feature ''[[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]]'' (1941–1942) and Disney's feature films ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]'' (1950), ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1951) and ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' (1955) failed at the box office. For several decades, Disney was the only American studio to regularly produce animated features, until [[Ralph Bakshi]] became the first to release more than a handful of features. [[Sullivan-Bluth Studios]] began to regularly produce animated features starting with ''[[An American Tail]]'' in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Don Bluth Contents |url=http://www.cataroo.com/DBconts.html |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=www.cataroo.com}}</ref>

Although relatively few titles became as successful as Disney's features, other countries developed their own animation industries that produced both short and feature theatrical animations in a wide variety of styles, relatively often including [[stop motion]] and [[cutout animation]] techniques. Soviet [[Soyuzmultfilm]] animation studio, founded in 1936, produced 20 films (including shorts) per year on average and reached 1,582 titles in 2018. China, Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic, Italy, France, and Belgium were other countries that more than occasionally released feature films.