| Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Ham Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman | Producer: Walt Disney |
| Script: Dodie Smith, Bill Peet | Animators: Milt Kahl, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Frank Thomas, Marc Davis, et al. |
| Music: George Bruns | Art Direction: Ken Anderson |
Walt Disney Productions, 79 min. Release Date: Jan. 25, 1961.
| Character | Voice /Actor |
| Cruella de Vil | Betty Lou Gerson |
| Roger | Ben Wright |
| Anita | Lisa Davis |
| Perdita | Cate Bauer |
| Nanny | Martha Wentworth |
| Pongo | Rod Taylor |
| Sgt. Tibs | David Frankham |
| Colonel and Jasper | J. Pat O'Malley |
I don't believe in playing down to children. I didn't treat my youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.--Walt Disney
This obvious difference in 101 Dalmatians from any previous animated film that had not used the Xerox process was stark and profound. In Sleeping Beauty artist Eyvind Earle had striven for (and achieved) beautifully rendered painterly backgrounds. With the new process, the painterly was replaced with linearity.--Leslie Iwerks and John Kenworthy
Disney is a very real, very significant part of contemporary culture. As such, it functions rhetorically, influencing perspectives of morality either explicitly or implicitly. The research demonstrates what Disney's understanding of morality is and how it, as the dominant 'Stories R Us' store, sells, through its films, its lessons on moral life.--Annalee R. Ward