List of animated feature films of the 1950s

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

Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes
1950
Cinderella		Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Wilfred Jackson	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional
Érase una vez		Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer		Traditional
Immer wieder Glück		Ferdinand Diehl		Stop motion
Johnny the Giant Killer Jeannot l'intrépide		Jean Image		Traditional
Prince Bayaya Bajaja		Jiří Trnka		Stop motion
1951
Alice in Wonderland		Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional
Amazon Symphony Sinfonia Amazônica		Anelio Latini		Traditional	First Brazilian animated feature.
The Night Before Christmas Noch pered Rozhdestvom		Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
The Visions of Tay-Pi Los Sueños de Tay-Pi		José María Blay Franz Winterstein		Traditional
1952
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep La Bergère et le Ramoneur		Paul Grimault		Traditional
The Scarlet Flower Alenkiy tsvetochek		Lev Atamanov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
The Snow Maiden Snyegurochka		Ivan Ivanov-Vano Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
1953
Bonjour Paris!		Jean Image		Traditional
Old Czech Legends Staré pověsti české		Jiří Trnka		Stop motion
Peter Pan		Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional
The Treasure of Bird Island Poklad Ptacího ostrova		Karel Zeman		Stop motion
1954
Animal Farm		John Halas Joy Batchelor	Halas and Batchelor	Traditional
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy		Michael Myerberg John Paul	RKO Radio Pictures	Stop motion
Tsarevna the Frog Tsarevna-Lyagushka		Mikhail Tsekhanovsky	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional	[1][2][3][4]
1955
The Devil and Kate Čert a Káča		Václav Bedřich	Bratři v triku	Traditional
The Enchanted Boy Zakoldovanyy malchik		Vladimir Polkovnikov Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
The Good Soldier Schweik Dobrý voják Švejk		Jiří Trnka		Stop motion
Lady and the Tramp		Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional	First animated feature to be in widescreen (CinemaScope)
1956
The Enchanted Village Le Village enchanté		Marcel Racicot Réal Racicot		Traditional
The Heavenly Creation Nebesnoe sozdanie		Sergey Obraztsov Georgiy Natanson Grigoriy Lomidze	Soyuzmultfilm	Stop Motion	First Soviet full-length animated film made completely in stop-motion technology of animation	[5][6]
The Secret of Magic Island Une fée... pas comme les autres		Jean Tourane		Stop motion/Puppet	First international collaboration in an animated feature.
The Twelve Months 12 mesyatsev		Ivan Ivanov-Vano Mikhail Botov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
1957
The Big Fun Carnival		Marc Daniels Shamus Culhane Hans Fischerkoesen Dave Fleischer John A. Haeseler 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.
The Creation of the World La création du monde		Eduard Hofman		Traditional
Hemo the Magnificent		Frank Capra		Traditional/Live action	First animated feature made for TV
The Snow Queen Snezhnaya koroleva		Lev Atamanov Nikolay Fyodorov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional
1958
Beloved Beauty Krasa nyenaglyadnaya		Vladimir Degtyaryov	Soyuzmultfilm	Stop motion
A Deadly Invention Vynález zkázy		Karel Zeman		Stop motion/Live action
I Picchiatelli		Antonio Attanasi			documentary about animation, show 2-d animation and stop-motion puppet
The Tale of the White Serpent Hakuja den		Taiji Yabushita Kazuhiko Okabe	Toei Animation	Traditional	First anime feature to be in color
1959
1001 Arabian Nights		Jack Kinney	UPA	Traditional
The Adventures of Buratino Priklyucheniya Buratino		Ivan Ivanov-Vano Dmitriy Babichenko Mikhail Botov	Soyuzmultfilm	Traditional	Last drawn full-length animated film which entered the period of the Soviet social realism
Chuang Tapestry 一幅僮锦		Qian Jagun	Shanghai Animation Film Studio	Traditional	First Chinese animated feature to be produced as the People's Republic of China
Hyoutan suzume ひょうたんすずめ		Yokoyama Ryuichi		Traditional
I Was a Satellite of the Sun Ya byl sputnicom Solntsa		Victor Morgenstern	Soyuzmultfilm, Mosnauchfilm	Traditional/Live action	First Soviet feature film combining the traditional animation and live-action
Magic Boy Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke		Akira Daikubara Taiji Yabushita	Toei Animation	Traditional
A Midsummer Night's Dream Sen noci svatojánské		Jiří Trnka		Stop motion
Sleeping Beauty		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

References

1. Cartoon «Tsarevna the Frog» on YouTube (Official Russian)
2. Cartoon «Tsarevna the Frog» on YouTube (Russian with English subtitles)
3. Cartoon «Tsarevna the Frog» on YouTube (English)
4. Russian animation in letters and figures | Films | ╚FROG THE PRINCESSE╩
5. Russian animation in letters and figures | Films | ╚THE CELESTIAL CREATURE╩
6. Cartoon «The Heavenly Creation» on YouTube (Russian)