LOL! I guess Disney does have a format they tend to self-replicate :) I can see how they influenced anime, though, which is probably one reason much anime tended to be of higher artistic quality than US cartoons until recently when the Japanese influence began to raise the bar here. When Disney produced Cinderella and Snow White they used some innovative methods of animation to attain a higher level of production that anyone had before them (except maybe Max Fleischer), but with the coming of TV and the need for fast production, later cartoons tended to drop in production quality for the sake of efficiency, as illustrated by Hanna-Barbera's use of stock animation. I'm guessing maybe the older Disney method continued to develop in Japan while US cartoons were toning down for the TV market.