But because so many of us were introduced to many of their 55 films at a young age, those movies, and the songs they contain, have the potential to stay with a person for a lifetime. Beauty and the Beast is a stunning achievement in filmmaking, no matter the audience demographic. That’s not to diminish the very real cultural significance of the films in the Disney animated canon (that’s films released by Walt Disney Feature Animation, beginning with Snow White in 1937), many of which can (and do) appeal to adults as well as children. That’s all a big part of why, for reasons beyond its massive size and reach and bank accounts, Disney matters. Milne as anything but some stories they liked when they were young, one can hear the phrase “Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood” and know immediately what comes next, and what comes after that. Well after they’ve stopped thinking about the works of A.A.
It’s part of why creating entertainment for children can be so meaningful, because with some talent and skill, it’s possible to give a young person a song they’ll carry with them for decade after decade. The impulse children have to press “play” over and over and over again can leave all kinds of wonderful and sometimes useless things stuck in your head.
That encompasses the fears, loves, insecurities, dreams, and other things one will likely describe to a therapist as an adult, but other things stick, too. Things make a real, lasting mark on your brain when you’re a kid. This time, we whistled while we sifted through every song from the Disney Animated Canon. Rank and File finds us sorting through an exhaustive, comprehensive body of work or collection of pop-culture artifacts.
We’re reposting in anticipation of the live-action Beauty and the Beast hitting theaters this weekend. This feature originally ran in November 2016.
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