![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This begat The Biscuit Eater, a retread of Old Yeller, Herbie Rides Again, and a new cycle of "let's find the next teen star" pictures attempting to repeat the success of Disney's vehicles for Hayley Mills. The other solution, one that became more and more prominent as the 1970s progressed, was to cannibalise the studio's own past successes in the absence of any new creative direction. ![]() Thus came, for example, The Aristocats, surely one of the noblest uses of the Disney brand name in history. The short-term solution came in two forms: first, whatever projects had been started during Walt's lifetime, no matter how little along they were in development, were the first priority the mere hint of the man's authority was enough to guide a nervous, untethered studio in the first years of what would prove to be two decades of wandering in the wilderness. Right down to the corporate name, Walt Disney Productions had largely been a cult of personality, and once that gargantuan figure was out of the picture, nobody behind the scenes or in the audience had any idea what to expect of a "Disney picture". When Walt Disney died of lung cancer in 1966, he left behind a company that had no idea how to function without him. ![]()
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