One Hundred and One Dalmatians

One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Directed by	Wolfgang Reitherman Hamilton Luske Clyde Geronimi
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Rod Taylor Cate Bauer Betty Lou Gerson Ben Wright Lisa Davis Martha Wentworth
Music by	George Bruns Mel Leven
Editor(s)	Roy M. Brewer, Jr. Donald Halliday
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	Buena Vista Distribution
Released	January 25, 1961
Running Time	80 Minutes (1:19:28)
Language	English
Preceded by	Sleeping Beauty
Followed by	The Sword in the Stone
Country	United States

One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is Disney Animation Canon's 17th feature film.

Rating

One Hundred and One Dalmatians received a G rating by the MPAA. This is the seventeenth Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the US after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty.

Credits

One Hundred and One Dalmatians Credits

Gallery

United States

1961 original release poster

1969 re-release poster

1979 re-release poster

1985 re-release poster

1991 re-release poster

Trivia

• The film's copyright was renewed on January 11, 1988. The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.
• The TV show that Jasper, Horace, and the puppies are watching when Tibbs finds them is the 1929 Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon, Springtime.
  • In real life, dogs cannot see analogue television properly. However, since the dogs in this film can speak, it is reasonable that they would be able to see analogue TV too.
• Several cast members from Lady and the Tramp make cameos in this film:
  • Jock is the second dog in the "Twilight Bark" chain, after Danny and Scottie.
  • Peg is seen in a pet shop window, next to several barking puppies (that are reused animation of the Dalmatian puppies barking at the television).
  • Bull is seen in the same window. Tramp is seen in the streets of London on top of a car while the poodle is barking.
  • Lady appears in the same scene down below with the other dogs.
  • Towser slightly resembles Trusty.
  • Their cameos are likely non-canon as Lady and the Tramp is set in the USA while One Hundred and One Dalmatians is set in London.
• The yelping sound that Rolly makes when the Sergeant Tibbs pushes him through the hole in the wall originally came from Lady's whining sounds from Lady and the Tramp when she was crying to get out of the kitchen, as a puppy, at the beginning of the movie.
  • Another one of her sounds is heard when the soot-covered puppies are trapped in the shed when Horace and Jasper are trying to break in
• According to a newspaper headline seen the morning after the puppies' theft, the bulk of the film takes place in November 1958.
  • The makes this the second Disney animated film to take place in the same time period it was first released after Dumbo, which took place in 1941.
  • This is also the second film to star dogs and other animals, and the second to feature a couple as protagonists after Lady and the Tramp.
• The Platinum Edition of One Hundred and One Dalmatians uses the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo at the start and at the end of the film.
• The 1992 and 1999 VHS releases use the 1990 Walt Disney Pictures logo at the start.
• Current release uses the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo with just "Disney" at the start and at the end of the film.
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians has the most live-action film adaptations of any Walt Disney Animation Studios film, with three: 101 Dalmatians (1996), 102 Dalmatians (2000), and Cruella (2021).
• 101 Dalmatians has received its own commercial with Givenchy using the same hand drawn style of the movie, featuring Perdita and Pongo with their Dalmatian Puppies visiting the store.
• To date, this is the only post-CinemaScope Walt Disney Animation Studios film that is still not cropped to widescreen for home media releases.
• The Kanine Krunchies commercial was featured at the end of the Great Gosh A Mighty music video from the 1986 film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
• According to the Reel of Misfortune mini-game from Mickey's House of Villains (which features Cruella as one of the main villains), there are 6,469,952 spots altogether in One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
• This was one of 5 Disney films with the sketchy animation of Xerography to garner a THX certified home media release. In the case of this film, both it's 1999 VHS and DVD releases.
• This marks the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be script-driven, films prior were board-driven. The screenplay was actually completed before the storyboarding process began. However, this was "a short-lived experiment", as Disney would not use the script-driven process again until The Great Mouse Detective (1986).