After a several decade-long career, famous director and animator John Musker is slowly preparing to retire. The 70-year-old director is responsible for revitalizing Disney in the late 80s and 90s, so he is definitely one of the most important animators in history. Not that long ago, Musker attended the Animayo International Summit in Gran Canaria, where he promoted his new short film, I’m Hip!.

There, he also talked to El País about his beginnings at Disney, as well as about his opinions on the current state of things at the House of the Mouse, which is something we have already reported on earlier. But he also told us about a very interesting anecdote involving one of Disney’s biggest classics.

Namely, at the time, the production of such movies was not a rule but rather an exception, and the iron fist president at the time, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was not for making such movies,...