Do you know the first animated film produced? If your answer is – and most people might answer – Disney’s “Snow White and Seven Dwarfs”, then you are not quiet right. The true is, Disney’s Snow white is the first animated film who gains commercial success in the world. It was rolled in most of countries.

The first animation feature film ever made actually is “El Apóstol”, an Argentine film wrote by Quirino Cristiani. It was made in 1917, ran 70 minutes with 14 frames per second. The story was a satire, describe President Hipólito Yrigoyen ascending to Heaven to clear Buenos Aires from immorality and corruption, although it was not a happy ending. Unfortunately, no copies of the movie found.

El Apóstol poster (source:wikipedia)

Disney Snow White’s poster (source:wikipedia)

There are 5 movies since El Apóstol before the popular Snow white arose in 1937, here are list of 9 first animated feature film (run over 40 minutes) ever made :
1917
• The Apostle, El Apóstol (Argentina), (70 min)
1918
• Without a Trace, Sin dejar rastros (Argentina)
1926
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (Germany)
1931
• Peludópolis (Argentina), the world’s first animated feature film with sound, by Quirino Cristiani
1935
• The New Gulliver, Новый Гулливер (Novyy Gullivyer) (USSR)
1937
• Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (USA)
• The Seven Ravens, Die sieben Raben (Germany)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (USA)
• The Tale of the Fox, Le Roman de Renard (France/Germany)

Source:wikipedia