List of animated feature films of the 1950s

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A list of animated feature films released in the 1950s.

Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes	Release date
1950
Cinderella	United States	Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional		February 15, 1950 (1950-02-15)
Érase una vez	Spain			Traditional		December 18, 1950
	West Germany	Ferdinand Diehl [de]		Stop motion		February 24, 1950
Johnny the Giant Killer Jeannot l'intrépide	France	Jean Image		Traditional		December 13, 1950 (1950-12-13)
[de]	West Germany	[de]		Traditional		February 24, 1950 (1950-02-24)
1951
Alice in Wonderland	United States	Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional		July 26, 1951 (1951-07-26)
Amazon Symphony Sinfonia Amazônica	Brazil			Traditional	First Brazilian animated feature.	January 13, 1951 (1951-01-13)
The Night Before Christmas Noch pered Rozhdestvom	Soviet Union	Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		December 31, 1951 (1951-12-31)
Prince Bayaya Bajaja	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Trnka		Stop motion		January 26, 1951 (1951-01-26)
1952
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep La Bergère et le Ramoneur	France	Paul Grimault		Traditional		September 1952 (1952-September)
The Scarlet Flower Alenkiy tsvetochek	Soviet Union	Lev Atamanov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		December 31, 1952 (1952-12-31)
The Snow Maiden Snyegurochka	Soviet Union	Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		December 31, 1952 (1952-12-31)
[es] Los Sueños de Tay-Pi	Spain	,  [sv]		Traditional		December 22, 1952 (1952-12-22)
1953
[fr]	France	Jean Image		Traditional		October 30, 1953
Old Czech Legends Staré pověsti české	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Trnka		Stop motion		April 8, 1953 (1953-04-08)
Peter Pan	United States	Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional		February 5, 1953 (1953-02-05)
The Treasure of Bird Island Poklad Ptacího ostrova	Czechoslovakia	Karel Zeman		Stop motion		March 27, 1953 (1953-03-27)
1954
Animal Farm	United Kingdom  United States	John Halas, Joy Batchelor	Halas and Batchelor	Traditional	First British animated feature	December 22, 1954 (1954-12-22)
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy	United States	,	RKO Radio Pictures	Stop motion		October 10, 1954 (1954-10-10)
Tsarevna the Frog Tsarevna-Lyagushka	Soviet Union	Mikhail Tsekhanovsky	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional	[1][2][3][4]	December 1954 (1954-December)
1955
Čert a Káča	Czechoslovakia	[cs]	Bratři v triku	Traditional
The Enchanted Boy Zakoldovanyy malchik	Soviet Union	, Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		September 16, 1955 (1955-September-16)
[fr] Le Village enchanté	Canada	,		Traditional	First Canadian animated feature	December 23, 1955 (1955-12-23)
The Good Soldier Schweik Dobrý voják Švejk	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Trnka		Stop motion
Lady and the Tramp	United States	Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional	First animated feature to be presented in widescreen (CinemaScope)	June 22, 1955 (1955-06-22)
1956
Nebesnoe sozdanie	Soviet Union	Sergey Obraztsov, ,	Soyuzmultfilm	Stop Motion	First Soviet full-length animated film made completely in stop-motion technology of animation[5][6]
The Twelve Months 12 mesyatsev	Soviet Union	Ivan Ivanov-Vano,	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		December 31, 1956 (1956-12-31)
1957
	United States	Marc Daniels, Shamus Culhane, Hans Fischerkoesen, Dave Fleischer, , George Pal		Traditional/Stop Motion	A compilation film of old theatrical cartoons previously distributed by Paramount Pictures. Originally planned as the first of twelve such features, only this first one was released.
Hemo the Magnificent	United States	Frank Capra		Traditional/Live action	First animated feature made for TV	March 20, 1957 (1957-03-20)
The Snow Queen Snezhnaya koroleva	Soviet Union	Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Fyodorov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional		December 31, 1957 (1957-12-31)
1958
Beloved Beauty Krasa nyenaglyadnaya	Soviet Union		Soyuzmultfilm	Stop motion
[fr] La création du monde	France  Czechoslovakia			Traditional		April 4, 1958 (1958-04-04)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne Vynález zkázy	Czechoslovakia	Karel Zeman		Stop motion/Live action
	Italy				documentary about animation, show 2-d animation and stop-motion puppet
The White Snake Enchantress Hakuja den	Japan	,	Toei Animation	Traditional	First anime feature to be in color and the first feature film produced by Toei Animation.	October 22, 1958 (1958-10-22)
1959
1001 Arabian Nights	United States	Jack Kinney	Columbia Pictures UPA	Traditional		December 1, 1959 (1959-12-01)
The Adventures of Buratino Priklyucheniya Buratino	Soviet Union	Ivan Ivanov-Vano, ,	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional	Last drawn full-length animated film which entered the period of the Soviet social realism	April 1, 1960 (1960-04-01)
Chuang Tapestry 一幅僮锦	China		Shanghai Animation Film Studio	Traditional	First Chinese animated feature to be produced as the People's Republic of China
ひょうたんすずめ	Japan			Traditional
I Was a Satellite of the Sun Ya byl sputnikom Solntsa [A]	Soviet Union		Soyuzmultfilm,	Traditional/Live action	First Soviet feature film combining the traditional animation and live-action
Magic Boy Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke	Japan	,	Toei Animation	Traditional		December 25, 1959 (1959-12-25)
A Midsummer Night's Dream Sen noci svatojánské	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Trnka		Stop motion		September 25, 1959 (1959-09-25)
Sleeping Beauty	United States	Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional	First animated feature to be presented in Super Technirama 70 widescreen, Last Disney feature to use traditional inking.	January 29, 1959 (1959-01-29)

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