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When Walt Disney released Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in 1937, history was made, and after a number of hugely successful animated shorts, he released his first animated feature film.

Long after Walt Disney's passing, his studio would go on to make history once again, when Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

It should be noted, however, that Snow White is frequently incorrectly labeled as the first feature-length animated film.

That distinction, in fact, belongs to Quirino Cristiani and Federico Valle's El Apostol's, a forgotten satire of the Argentine government. The only known copy was destroyed in 1928.

Even so, it goes to show that while Disney is often synonymous with animated films, they are not the last word on the genre.

Dreamworks, Aardman, Studio Ghibli and others have created dazzling masterpieces as good or better as anything the house of mouse ever created.