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Disney's Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V

Considering the incredible amount of work that it took to hand render each and every cell for Disney movies, I'm not in the least bit surprised that they regurgitated certain dances/scenes. That vid was still fairly interesting anyways. Thx for sharing. :D

I still think they are artistic geniuses.
 
Production companies have been recycling animation for years, think about the backgrounds in Merry Melodies cartoons that just keep looping during chase scenes.

More recently 70/30 and Williams Street; which produced gems like Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, SGCC, Sealab 2021 and the Brak Show, have turned old animation into successful modern comedic gold, and probably turned a nice profit off of it as well. These were all built of of licensed and recycled Hanna Barbera cartoons and very cleverly so IMO.
 
Its interesting, but it doesn't surprise me.

Directors/animators are bound to use the same actions/camera angles/ect. in more than one film if they like the way it turned out, and when you are talking disney you are looking at hundreds of movies.

Some of these could have happened completely by accident over a span of that many movies, particularly with the same people working in the same environment for some of them.