List of unproduced Disney animated shorts and feature films
This is a list of unmade and unreleased animated shorts and features by The Walt Disney Company.
| Contents: | 1930s: 1930193119321933193419351936193719381939 1940s: 1940194119421943194419451946194719481949 1950s: 1950195119521953195419551956195719581959 1960s: 1960196119621963196419651966196719681969 1970s: 1970197119721973197419751976197719781979 1980s: 1980198119821983198419851986198719881989 1990s: 1990199119921993199419951996199719981999 2000s: 2000200120022003200420052006200720082009 2010s: 2010201120122013201420152016201720182019 See alsoExternal sourcesReferences |
1930s
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| Series | Title | Description |
| Mickey Mouse | "Hillbilly" "Mickey the Hillbilly" "Hillbilly Mickey" | Pete the moonshiner mistakes Mickey for a revenue agent, and Minnie Mouse appears as a hillbilly girl. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Station Agent" | Mickey works at a train station, where he encounters a troublesome kangaroo. During the development of the cartoon, the kangaroo was dropped in favor of an ostrich. At one time, Mickey was supposed to help Donald with the ostrich, before he was omitted from the plot altogether in favor of the duck. The original kangaroo elements ended up in "Mickey's Kangaroo," which was released in [|1935], minus the train station. Probably at the same time as Mickey was dropped from the cartoon, the film was renamed "Donald's Ostrich," which was released in [|1937]. |
| Pluto | "The Good Samaritan" | Pluto rescues a baby puppy that wrecks the house of his black mistress. A short with this plot was made for Disney's House of Mouse. |
1935
| Series | Title | Description |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Vaudeville Show" | Mickey is a magician with a hat. Donald and Pluto are his helpers. Donald is frustrated and wants to expose Mickey's act. The magic act is followed by a grand opera, featuring Mickey, Donald, Clara Cluck, and Pluto, and exposing the hat again. During the development, this was split into two cartoons, since the plot was considered too thick for a standard short, and it became "Mickey's Magic Hat". During the development of the former short, Donald was downgraded from Mickey's helper to a frustrated spectator role. It was released in 1937 as "Magician Mickey". Somewhere during the development after the split, "Mickey's Grand Opera" was produced first and kept most of the original elements, and it was released in [|1936]. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Sea Monster" "Mickey's Sea Monster" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are pitted against a comic sea serpent. |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | A proposed Silly Symphony based on Hans Christian Andersen's story about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. |
1936
| Series | Title | Description |
| Mickey Mouse | "Davy Jones' Locker" "Pearl Divers" | Mickey goes undersea treasure hunting. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Deer Hunt" | Mickey sets out to hunt deer in a story that was supposed to feature all of the same plot elements as in the released cartoon The Pointer in [|1939]. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Desert Prospectors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy discover a ledge of 19-karat gold in the desert with the aid of an automatic gold-finder, which has been constructed by Goofy. However, the machine goes berserk when it gets too close to Donald's gold belt buckle, attacking the duck and ultimately exploding a stick of dynamite. The trio of prospectors are left in tattered disarray. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | When the Silly Symphony failed to materialize, Mickey Mouse was brought into the story and the concept was developed as either a short or featurette. At one point, Donald and Goofy were also considered for inclusion in the plot. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Love Nest" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are interior designers who set up a honeymoon cottage for Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Bakery" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy bake an enormous cake for Mrs. Vandersnoot's reception. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Sunken Treasure" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting and end up on a desert island. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Treasure Hunt" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go treasure hunting on a shipwreck. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Navy Mickey" also known as "Mickey in the Navy" | Mickey joins the Navy, where he encounters a bulldog admiral. |
| Mickey Mouse | "North West Mounted" "Royal Mounted Police" "Mickey of the Mounted" "Mickey Gets His Man" "Mickey the Mountie" | Black Pete kidnaps Minnie Mouse and tries to force her to disclose the location of her secret gold mine. Intrepid mountie Mickey gives chase, but is hampered in his search by the antics of his gluttonous horse Tanglefoot. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Sunken Treasure" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go deep sea hunting. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Three Bears" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are cast in the roles of the Three Bears. This approach to the story was considered after the prosed Silly Symphony failed to materialize. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Snowbabies" | A proposed Silly Symphony, a sequel to "Water Babies," and a sequel/prequel to "Merbabies". The babies are now playing in the snow instead of water. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Struebel Peter" "Slovenly Peter" | A proposed Silly Symphony featuring Peter, an unruly boy who delights in tormenting animals. The animals, in the end, take their revenge. |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Three Bears" "Goldie Locks and Three Bears" | A proposed Silly Symphony of the well-known children's story. Model sheets prove that Goldilocks was planned to look like, and possibly be voiced by, Shirley Temple. Papa Bear was modeled after W.C. Fields. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Timid Elmer" "Elmer's Light o Love" | A proposed sequel to the Elmer Elephant Silly Symphony. Elmer has to watch helplessly as Tillie Tiger's ballet arts of Granville inspires Goat. When trouble comes, Goat runs away and Elmer has to save Tillie. |
| Feature film | Peter Rabbit | A proposed animated film based on the Peter Rabbit books written by Beatrix Potter. However, she refused Walt Disney's offer to make the film. 90 years later Sony made a live action film adaptation version of Peter Rabbit. |
1937
| Series | Title | Description |
| Donald Duck | "Interior Decorators" | Donald and his assistant Gus Goose are entrusted with the renovation of a villa. Donald encounters a throbbing cuckoo clock. Had this film been completed, it would have been the debut of Gus Goose. |
| Donald Duck | "Lumberjack Donald" | Donald gives the orphans a how-to lesson on how to cut down a tree. A different lumberjack Donald Duck cartoon was eventually titled Timber and released in [|1941] |
| Donald Duck | "Nightwatchman Donald" | Donald is a night watchman in a store, in which he has to deal with a playful monkey. |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "Clock Tower" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy open a shop to fix clocks. They are tricked by Pete into fixing Big Beth. All of these elements were dropped in favor of cleaning Big Beth. The Big Beth element was kept and released in 1937 as "Clock Cleaners". |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Dog Show" | Dropped elements from a released cartoon titled "Society Dog Show", including the original title. Pete was originally considered for the role of the judge. The Good Housekeeping page suggested that Donald helps Mickey prepare Pluto for the show, but the studio record did not match the Good Housekeeping page. |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Janitors" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy work in a store, cleaning it overnight. |
| Mickey Mouse or Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "Jungle Mickey" | Mickey is a solo newsreel photographer in darkest Africa. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are newsreel photographers in darkest Africa. |
| Mickey, Donald & Goofy | "The Legionaires" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy join the French Foreign Legion. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Follies" | a large and ambitious projected short featuring nearly all of the original Disney characters, including Mickey and the gang, as well as some of the more popular Silly Symphonies characters, in a grand musical revue. This eventually formed the basis of the Mickey Mouse Revue show at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Sargasso Sea" | Mickey Mouse visits Atlantis. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Japanese Symphony" | Originally planned as a story, set in Japan, featuring a moth rescued from a bat. A romantic story about two Japanese children, which was stalled in production. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Minnehaha" | A proposed sequel to "Little Hiawatha", featuring Hiawatha's female counterpart, a little Indian girl named Minnehaha. Little seems to be known about the actual plot. |
| Feature film | Reynard the Fox The Romance of Reynard | Tales and poems from 11th-century Europe about a misbehaving fox and his tricks. This was considered as a feature film. |
1938
| Series | Title | Description |
| Donald Duck | "The Delivery Boy" | Donald has to deliver a mechanical doll to a doll museum, and another package to another destination. Pluto was considered at one point to be included to help Donald with his job. |
| Donald Duck | "Donald Munchausen" | Donald tells his nephews a tall tale a la Baron Munchausen, about his adventures as a National Geographic photographer in Africa. He claims to have discovered a lost world of prehistoric creatures, and to have beaten King Kong in feats of strength. |
| Donald Duck | "Donald's Shooting Gallery" | Donald attracts his nephews to the shooting range, by offering a box of chocolates as a prize. This proposed Donald Duck short was, in theory, an alternative story to the finished [|1947] cartoon "Straight Shooters". |
| Donald Duck | "Lost Prospectors" | Donald and Gus Goose are prospectors lost in Death Valley. Tortured by heat and thirst, they trek across the barren terrain in search of water. They encounter various mirages, including a group of Lorelei ducks lounging by a swimming pool. One of the girls sips a cool drink and beckons to them. While Donald investigates, Gus, with the aid of his lucky derby hat, discovers a strange capricious laughing spring and is able to quench his thirst. Donald tries to trap the elusive water, but is unable to get a drop. |
| Donald Duck | "Mickey's Beach Picnic" | Mickey, Goofy, and Pluto have a rough day at the beach. |
| Donald Duck | "The Rubber Hunter" | Donald traveled to South America in order to obtain a particularly rare species of raw rubber for new tires for his car. |
| Donald Duck | "Yukon Donald" | Donald discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Donald tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Nephews" | A Christmas story, in which Mickey would have played Santa for the orphans. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Toothache" | Mickey inhales laughing gas and enters a nightmare world where he is threatened by dental equipment. As part of the nightmare Pete appears and attacks Mickey. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Movie Makers" | Mickey is an amateur filmmaker in Hollywood, and Donald and Pluto set out to help him make films. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Pilgrim Mickey" | Mickey is a pilgrim setting out to hunt a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Salvagers" | Mickey and Donald go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea. Mickey and Pluto go treasure hunting in the deep blue sea. This version of the film's plot came about when the Mickey and Donald story failed to materialize. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Spring Cleaning" | An attempt to bring back Bobo the Elephant from "Mickey's Elephant". Mickey is a servant, where he and Pluto clean Minnie Mouse's garden. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Tanglefoot" | Mickey goes to the racetrack, where he encounters a horse with Allergic rhinitis. |
| Mickey Mouse | "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" | Mickey plays Captain Nemo in an undersea adventure. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Yukon Mickey" | Mickey discovers that a mischievous baby walrus has been stealing food from his cache. Chasing the little thief, he runs afoul of the walrus' giant father. When Mickey tries to placate papa walrus with a fish, the baby walrus steals it. |
| Pluto | "Pluto's Robot Twin" | Mickey builds a robot dog to keep Pluto company, but the robot goes out of control. Pluto has to fight the robot to regain control of the household. |
| Silly Symphony Featurette | "Snow White Returns" | A sequel featurette to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. |
| Feature film | Penguin Island | This proposed feature was about a fictitious island of great auks that exists off the northern coast of Europe. The story begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the great auks as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partially blind, he mistakes the animals for people and baptizes them. |
1939
| Series | Title | Description |
| Donald Duck | "The Beaver Hunters" | Donald and Pluto go hunting for beavers, but the wily rodents foil them, even though Donald disguises himself as a tree and uses ingenious weapons, such as a rifle that fires a plumber's helper. |
| Donald Duck | "Donald's Elephant" | Bobo becomes Donald's pet. |
| Donald Duck | "Donald's Outboard Motor" | Donald has trouble with a boat motor. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles". |
| Donald Duck | "Donald's Stratosphere Flight" | Donald has problems repairing and launching his hot air balloon. |
| Donald Duck | "Haunted Castle" | Donald camps outside a spooky castle but, when a strong wind blows his tent up into the air, Donald lands inside. |
| Donald Duck | "Museum Keeper" "Old Masters" "Donald and the Old Masters" | Donald is a museum keeper guarding a priceless collection of paintings. Some of the "paintings" in this unmade short feature Donald in various classic artworks. |
| Donald Duck | "Tree Surgeon" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are tree surgeons. Donald and Goofy are tree surgeons. Goofy asks for his doctor's tools as he bandages an unseen "patient"... really a tree. Donald and Goofy struggle to dope trees with laughing gas while various forest animals fight back. Eventually, Donald and Goofy inhale the laughing gas themselves, leading to a dizzy ballet around the woods and a bad fall for Donald into some poison ivy. Donald needs the next round of Goofy's bandages. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Balloon Race" | Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle participate in a balloon race against Black Pete. |
| Mickey Mouse | "The Band Concert" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Ice Antics" | a remake of "On Ice". |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Man Friday" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mickey's Revival Party" | An umbrella name for a project to revisit and remake several older Disney shorts. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Miracle Master" | Mickey becomes master of a magic lamp. The genie of the lamp continually shocks Mickey and his friends in the real world. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Morgan's Ghost" "Pieces of Eight" "Three Buccaneers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find a treasure map and try to follow it to the end, while at the same time trying to evade Pete. At one point, story was considered for upgrading to a feature film project. Elements of this unmade project were saved for a Donald Duck comic book story in which Donald finds pirate gold. |
| Mickey Mouse | "Mountain Carvers" | Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as artisans attempting to carve out their own version of Mount Rushmore. |
| Pluto | "Pluto and the Springs" | Pluto has trouble with a worm at the springs. The plot was considered too thin, as it was one of two cartoons to be merged into the released cartoon "Put-Put Troubles". |
| Pluto | "Pluto's Pal Bobo" | Pluto and Bobo are rivals for Mickey's attention, which is focused on a howdah that he built. |
| Silly Symphonies | "The Flying Mouse" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Grasshopper and the Ants" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Lullaby Land" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Silly Symphonies | "Santa's Workshop" | a remake of an earlier short of the same name. |
| Abdul Abulbul Amir | The story of two valiant heroes, a Russian, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, and one of the Shah's mamelukes, Abdul Abulbul Amir, who, because of their pride, end up in a fight and kill each other. | |
| Jabberwocky | The nonsense world of Lewis Carroll is brought to life in this short. | |
| Feature film | The Wizard of Oz | Originally Walt Disney's follow-up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but the film rights were lost to Samuel Goldwyn, who originally intended to produce it as a standard musical comedy, with Eddie Cantor as his star. However, Goldwyn ended up selling the rights to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1937 and two years later, the company released their own version of The Wizard of Oz. |
| Feature film | Alice in Wonderland | A second attempt to produce an animated film adaptation based on the novel of the same name written by Lewis Carroll. Due the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney revived their interest in the project. Cliff Edwards was attached to voice the Anthropomorphic "Drink Me" Bottle. A script and some storyboards were made by David Hall, as well as a Leica reel, but the project never materialized due to World War II. Twelve years later, a film based on the novel was released by Disney. Also, the live-action remake contains some elements of the scrapped film. |
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Note: Disney studios produced an animated sequence for Samuel Goldwyn's film Up in Arms, which was unused in the final version of the film.1943
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Note: Fun and Fancy Free, released in 1947, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.1948
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Note: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, released in 1949, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.1950s
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In June 2007, DisneyToon Studios president Sharon Morrill stepped down, and the animation studio units under the Walt Disney Company underwent corporate restructuring as the Pixar leadership assumed more control. Thus, most sequels, plus a prequel series, out of DisneyToon Studios were canceled.| Series | Title | Description |
| The Jungle Book | The Jungle Book 3 | In 2003, a third installment to The Jungle Book was planned, It would have been about Baloo and Shere Khan being captured and sold off to a Russian circus, and Mowgli, Shanti, Ranjan, and Bagheera deciding to save them both. Over the course of the film, Shere Khan regrets his hatred against humanity because of his capture, and eventually reforms, but the project never materialized. |
| The Aristocats | The Aristocats II | The direct-to-video sequel to the original 1970 film. The story was to have concerned Marie, Duchess's daughter, who becomes smitten by another kitten aboard a luxury cruise ship. However, she and her family must soon take on a jewel thief on the open seas. |
| Chicken Little | Chicken Little: The Ugly Duckling Story | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel to Chicken Little. |
| Meet the Robinsons | Meet the Robinsons: First Date | The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel to Meet the Robinsons. |
| Snow White | The Seven Dwarfs | At one point, Disney was developing a Lord of the Rings-like franchise series of direct-to-DVD films which would chronicle the adventures of the Seven Dwarfs before they met Snow White. The proposed project didn't go through, and the planned series was ultimately canceled. However, the concept was revived into a television series titled The 7D which aired on Disney XD from [|2014] to [|2016]. |
| Pinocchio | Pinocchio II | The canceled direct-to-video sequel to the original 1940 film. |
| Disney Princess Enchanted Tales | Initially, after the release of the direct-to-video film , there was to be an entire series of Enchanted Tales direct-to-video film installments. |