


Here's a trove of information about everyone's favorite non-Disney animated classic. Released in the summer of 1982, at a time when Disney’s Animation Studio was struggling (these were the The Fox and the Hound/ The Black Cauldron years), The Secret of NIMH saw a group of traditional animators attempt to unseat Disney-or at the very least to rattle the company out of its complacency. It was like David and Goliath, except that David lost and motivated Goliath to try harder. But there have been occasional challenges to Disney's dominance over the years, none so dramatic as the one represented by Don Bluth and The Secret of NIMH. Disney has had a stranglehold on animated feature films ever since Walt and friends made the first one, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937.
