The Fox and the Hound
The Fox and the Hound is the twenty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. The film was first released to movie theatres in the U.S. by July 10, 1981. A direct-to-video sequel, The Fox and the Hound 2, was released on December 12, 2006. It is loosely based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel The Fox and the Hound.
The Fox and the Hound 2 is a direct-to-video midquel to the 1981 Disney animated film The Fox and the Hound. It was released on December 12, 2006. The film was rated G in the United States, and was produced by DisneyToon Studios division.
Tod the fox and Copper the hound puppy are still leading their mischievous lives, but when Copper feels like he failed on his hunting training, it leads to a trip to the county fair. When a small Setter mix named Dixie quits The Singin' Strays, a howling country and western dog band, Copper joins the band, leading to conflicts between him and Tod as the hound becomes preoccupied with the group. Not only is Tod jealous, Dixie feels she has been cheated as well as replaced, angrier the new member is still only a puppy.
Trivia (Fox and the Hound)
- This movie represented a changing of the guard of the animators creating the film from Walt's Disney's "nine old men" to more recently trained Disney annimators.
- In the scene where Tod tries to find shelter in the woods during a rainstorm, we see a family of ducks in animation lifted from Disney's 1942 feature Bambi. Also borrowed in the movie are a twice-appearing family of quail (again from Bambi) and a squirrel whose appearance is identical to Wart / Arthur as a squirrel in The Sword in the Stone.
- The last Disney animated feature to begin with the complete opening credits and end with a "The End: Walt Disney Productions" credit, like all previous Disney films after Alice in Wonderland. The next Disney animated feature, The Black Cauldron, was the first to have closing credits.
- The last Disney animated feature to be made with entirely analogue techniques.
- The first Disney animated feature not to use line overlay since The Jungle Book.
- Tim Burton did design work on the film.
- In the Disney Channel Original Series, The Emperor's New School episode, "The Big Fight", Kuzco gets turned into a kitten and he also resembles Tod.
