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The unfortunate successor to [[The Golden Age of Animation]], slowly setting in at the late 1950s and slowly fading out at some point during the '80s <ref> the Dark Age ended for animated movies some time before the change would spread to television as well, not fully disappearing until Disney and Warner improved television animation standards in the late '80s and early '90s</ref>. [[Limited Animation]] was the rule, not the exception during this time. Its start coincided with the [[Fall of the Studio System]] in Hollywood. The theatrical short slowly died off, and cartoons moved to television. Naturally, this era would leave a lasting impression on the American culture, for better or for worse, as the [[Animation Age Ghetto|primary target audience for cartoons]] became children.
To start with, [[Limited Animation]] was primarily an [[Doing It for the Art|artistic choice]] for animators like Chuck Jones and John Hubley who were tired of [[Disneyfication]]. With the death of UPA and MGM animation studios, it became primarily about saving [[Exploited Trope|time and money]].
However, this does not mean ''everything'' from this era was ''bad''. Disney's output remained generally respectable and generally well animated early on, although Walt Disney's continual lack of involvement with his films due to his focus on television and theme park projects at the time had a noticeable effect in quality on the '60s Disney films, and the inevitable death of the man hit the company ''extremely'' hard, sending their studio into a hard slump post-''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''. Although they would eventually begin to recover with their short adaptations of the ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' stories (which were later made into a feature) as well as ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', which was something of a throwback to the style of the older Disney films, thanks in part to a Mr. [[Don Bluth]]... mind you, he ''was'' an employee of Disney at one point in the past. However, Disney would still continue to struggle until the '80s.
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