"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) is the first American full length animated film. The first worldwide were "El Apostol" (1917) and "Sin Dejar Rastros" (1918) but both are considered lost. "Die Abenteuer Des Prinen Achmed" (1926) is the oldest full length animated film that still survives. It was animated in silhouette.
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The Adventures of Andre & Wally B is the first American made completely computer generated cartoon made in 1984.However depending on how exactly you're defining a "cartoon", in 1967, Hummingbird, was a ten minute computer animated film created by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer.The previous answer of "Toy Story" being the first CGI animated feature length film is of course true, but it's clearly not the first computer animated cartoon.
Murray Spivak made the first sound film.
The first animated feature film is contested. Most consider Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937) to hold this honor, as it was the first to use cel-animation (now referred to as "traditional animation"). However, seven feature length animated films were created before this.El Apóstol (1917), Sin dejar rastros (1918) and Peludópolis (1931), directed by Quirino Cristiani, were drawn in the style of political editorial cartoons. All are considered lost films.The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), directed by Lotte Reiniger, was made using cardboard cutouts similar to Wayang shadow puppets. This is the oldest surviving animated film.The New Gulliver (1935), directed by Aleksandr Ptushko and A. Vanichkin, had some live action sequences but mostly used stop-motion puppets. These puppets had removable heads with pre-molded expressions (similar to stop-motion techniques used today).The Tale of the Fox (1937), directed by Irene and Wladyslaw Starevich, also used stop-motion puppetry. The film was actually completed in 1930 but was not released for seven years due to issues with the soundtrack.The Seven Ravens (1937), directed by Ferdinand and Hermann Diehl, was the third stop-motion animated film.
No, the 1973 film was in color. However, the poster of the film shows a priest standing in front of a building lit only by light coming from a window. This image appears to be black & white even though it isn't.
I am not sure when the next musical animated Disney movie will be made. The last musical Disney movie was made in 2014 called Frozen.