What Disney animated film was the first to feature blood?
Yesterday, my buddies and I were watching the movie UP, and in the scene where Mr. Frederickson hits the worker for moving his mailbox, the worker moves his hand to reveal blood on his head.
One of my friends then commented saying "I think this is the first Disney movie to have blood.", but I waved him off, sure there was another one older than that that has featured blood.
Is there? Or have I gone crazy?
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The earliest Disney animated movie I can find is Sleeping Beauty, from 1959, which shows the Dragon being slain by a sword, showing some blood. I found this picture, I see no reason why this picture is not genuine...
In live action movies, in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954), Captain Nemo (played by James Mason) is shot whilst boarding the Nautilus. He is seen climbing stairs, and there is a big patch of blood on his jacket.
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1963's Blood Feast, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, is perhaps the first film to have blood as its protagonist, splashing what looks like clumpy oil paint over floors, walls and screaming people.Can they show blood in Disney movies?
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Arguably the darkest film in the entire Disney animated canon is the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The movie opens with Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother and attempting to kill an infant Quasimodo before he's forced to stop.The Evolution of Animation 1833 - 2017
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Seeing that you're after short ones as well, The Winged Scourge from 1943 (which stars the 7 Dwarves) not only features blood graphically and in close-up, it's practically about it, since it's an educational short about the danger of mosquitos. Here's a still frame from it with a mosquito drinking blood:
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In Tarzan (1999), where the mother gorilla finds baby Tarzan, there are bloody jaguar footprints on the floor in the Treehouse!
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