The various 56 films in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon have become so ubiquitous in pop culture, it can be difficult to remember that, for many of these feature films, they were not the first attempts to translate their source material to the big screen. There's been plenty of big screen versions of
Cinderella beyond just the animated Disney version, for instance, Two other
Snow White movies (one of them starring Betty Boop!) preceded Disney's historic animated
Snow White motion picture in 1937. Thus, it should come as no surprise that Disney was far from the first studio to adapt the tale of
Beauty & The Beast in feature-length narrative form.
