length animated film after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (1937). Disneys perfection and quest for realism delayed the  project significantly, so that _Pinocchio (1940)_ (qv),  _Fantasia (1940)_ (qv), _Reluctant Dragon, The (1941)_ (qv) and  _Dumbo (1941)_ (qv) were released earlier than Bambi.