The chart opposite appears to show that Frozen—the Ice Queen and her sister—were the highest-grossing animation in history until The Lion King returned after 25 years and took back its royal crown. The billion-dollar animation club has 10 members. These 10 animations have together grossed nearly 13 billion dollars. Inflation* is a point that has not been examined in this chart.
Disney made its first feature-length animation, titled "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," in 1937. The name of the animation industry worldwide is bound up with the name of the animation "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Ruthie Tompson, known as a Disney legend, made this animation. 1 million dollars was spent to make this animation in those years. This feature-length animation grossed more than 400 million dollars in 1937.
Accounting for inflation in different years, animations' box office will have a different amount. This figure in today's dollars comes to more than 7 billion dollars! 7 billion dollars means more than half of the box office of the 10 highest-grossing cartoons in history. So the highest-grossing animation in history is not The Lion King, and Snow White's reign still continues after 80 years. The first feature-length animation in history is still the highest-grossing of all time.
See engaging statistics as well as the animation industry status map in Namafar's animation section.
- To measure the effect of inflation, the inflation calculator of American banks was used.
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