I don't think we had ever seen such vision of an underwater world before this.
shareThere is nothing groundbreaking about this movie. There was a very moronic film called The Amazing Mr. Limpet starring Don Knotts from the 1960s about a guy who turns into a fish (I didn't make that up; I swear). The second half of the movie is animated and takes place in the ocean, and the visual look and feel of the animated sequences are very similar to this film:
There's even a comical crab sidekick character who looks similar to Sebastian. I wouldn't be surprised if animators looked to that movie for a lot of the visuals:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/10de2f88c581e73fc5e8584b1195fb33/tumblr_ofmnpyD3e61tvyli9o5_400.gif
ETA: Just found this link, which says that the animators for the movie actually included the Mr. Limpet character in Under the Sea: https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-incredible-mr-limpet-and-another-disney-mermaid-on-records/#:~:text=The%20Disney%20animators%20included%20Mr.%20Limpet%20in%20the,the%20Florida%20Magic%20Kingdom%20version%20of%20the%20attraction.
A fine film but the mermaid should have been African since mermaids were part of their culture for many thousands of years before white people stole it. They wrote hundreds of tales of underwater cities, huge castles and the most beautiful princesses in all the world.
sharelol... this must be sarcasm of how an educated leftist thinks. Because, none of the Sub-Saharan Africans cultures developed a written language.
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This movie was based on a fairy-tale, that was originally written by a Danish writer.
I don't believe that making the mermaid African would have fitted into the story.