The Black Cauldron was supposed to be a generation-defining work of animation. Instead it crashed and burned in the box office - and was shoved under the rug like Disney’s overachieving turned heroin junkie least-favorite child.
A fun fact of this story is that due to the amount of money lost, animators were forced to leave their cushy Burbank studios to pump features faster and cheaper in some warehouse in Glendale - where the classics The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were born.
And who said slave labor didn't provide great results?
