Cinderella (1950) - Was Magical - Movie Reaction 

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So many people complain "why doesn't Cinderella just leave?" Thank you for understanding right away that she had nowhere to go and no resources to leave. She's not weak for staying, she's strong for surviving. Sleeping Beauty next. You'll love the fairies in that one.

I honestly love Cinderella and how it shows how being a traditionally feminine woman doesn't mean they're weak. She's typically seen or shun down by feminists and modern princess lovers due to her traditional values and femininity. But her staying strong after enduring an abusive household, and continued to be such a kind person is very admirable. Also! Just a reminder that Cinderella wanted to go to the ball for the heck of it. She needed a break and just wanted to party for at least one night, but the prince was just the cherry on the top for her.

As an abuse victim, I relate to Cinderella a lot! And I will defend her to my dying days!

One of my fav moments is after Lucifer wrecks the carpet Cinderella straight up grabs a broom to beat him with it, girl has her limits lol

The voice actress of Cindy sadly developed Alzheimer’s in her later life but whenever she was upset the nurses would play her Cinderella soundtrack and she would calm down😊💙

The hunchback of Notre Dame, Cinderella and the beauty and the beast take place in France and all roughly in the 16-1700’s

"Treason! SABOTAGE!!!" LOL The King is my favorite character in this movie.

We played "So This Is Love" at our wedding reception.

Growing up, Cinderella was a Disney film that I just sat and watched for the fun of it. As an adult, I actually appreciate it a lot more. I like the cast characters, mainly Cinderella, the mice, the Grand Duke, the Fairy Godmother, Lucifer, and even Lady Tremaine (she’s a despicably great villain). One of the best feats of animation that I like is the transition of Cinderella from her rags to her ball gown, which by the way is something that Walt Disney himself really liked in this film. I also like some of the songs as well, mostly “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” “Bibidi Bobidi Boo,” and “So this is Love.” So yeah, this film is very nice in my opinion.

As a little girl I used to watch this movie almost every day we had it in VHS 🥺 I remember falling in love with Cinderella how wholesome she is, but my favorite part of the movie was when the king was swinging his sword 😂 I was entertained by attempted murder

Here’s some interesting facts such as the film saved the studio from near bankruptcy, Lady Tremaine voiced by Eleanor Audrey who also voiced Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, and the Fairy Godmother voiced by Verna Felton who voiced Flora from Sleeping Beauty, Thumper’s mother from Bambi, the Matriarch and Mrs. Jumbo from Dumbo, Aunt Sarah from Lady and The Tramp, and her last role is Winnifred (Colonel Hathi’s wife) another matriarch elephant from The Jungle Book and it comes to full circle.

My mom is a victim of abuse and she told me back in her day as well as a long time ago you were forced to keep quiet about the abuse in your home by society as they believed they shouldn't be involved as well as it being uncomfortable subject to talk about it. I think that's why Cindy is tuck with her stepfamily that abused her daily. Thank heavens things are different nowadays.

4:00 The type of animation used for this movie is called rotoscoping. They filmed the entirety of the script with live actors, then used that footage to trace over onto paper. They also did this with Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's one of my favorite styles of animations!

You should watch any of these Disney animateds that you haven't already done: Snow White 1937 Pinocchio 1940 Dumbo 1941 Bambi 1942 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Sleeping Beauty 1959 101 Dalmatians 1961 Shrek references several of them. But it also references pretty much everything else in the universe.

I recommend you check out Cinderella 3. Even though it's a sequel it's still amazing, maybe even better than the first movie. And the Prince actually becomes the best character in the movie.

Recently I saw a tumblr post illustrating how maybe over the short time the prince was talking with Cinderella, maybe the things Cinderella was saying about her personal life was giving the prince red flags like “obviously this beautiful girl is being mistreated at home, I must find her again, I have to make sure she’s ok” and I really like that interpretation

28:34 omg i like that you noticed, in the story, Cinderella has REALLY small feet, that's why even tho every maiden in the kingdom tried the shoe on, it fit no one because (i think) the average size for women were 7-9inches while Cinderella's was size 4 edit: also i think because of this, it's hard to find shoes that would fit her as it was reoccurring that her shoes fell off her feet (eg, at beginning of the movie when her shoe fell off when she was carrying breakfast to her step family)

This movie roughly takes place in 1860. Women did have jobs but I don't know how well they paid. Women also ran their own small businesses as well. BUT, the story of Cinderella, however, is quite different because of her situation. People blame her for not taking initiative to leave her abusive family and it's so stupid. Cinderella grew up without knowing what familial love should be. She was very young when her father passed and never knew her biological mother. Her step family is all she ever knew. To her, this abuse is normal because this is all she had. Guaranteed her step-mother had told her that if she ever left she would starve on the streets, or maybe destroy something that belonged to her biological parents, maybe even kill her pets (her horse and her dog). The audience needs to understand that there was so much manipulation going on starting at such a young age. If you pay attention to when she is talking with her dog, Bruno, in the kitchen, she mentions they should be thankful that they have a roof over their heads and beds to sleep in. She was manipulated to believe she would have it so much worse if she left. I see so many people victim blaming Cinderella and it just shows no one pays attention or even attempts to understand what she's mentally going through.

"-motion captured though it's obviously not" - Actually it sort of is! The technique is called rotoscoping and is achieved through tracing over motion picture footage frame by frame. Hand-drawn animation from all eras have used it quite a lot, to achieve more believable movement (or cut down on costs). The studio would also hold workshops for animators and have models called in to provide reference footage for the actions that the characters were meant to be performing.

You're right, they didn't have motion capture back then. However, they did have a technique in similar spirit called rotoscoping. Basically, they'd film live action actors playing out the scenes how they were supposed to look & then the animators would trace over that footage (frame by frame) to make the animated characters movements more realistic.

I believe the original story came from France circa 1600. According to the fairy tale, Cinderella had the smallest feet in the kingdom. All these early classics are masterpieces

Hey, now, I'm black and my mom bought me all the Disney movies. I'm also American and my family never immigrated here. I get what you mean tho. I had a lot of friend's who's parents felt too much TV and cartoons was unproductive. It was family time for us.

I come from a black family with migrant parents and my brothers and I grew up with TONs of Disney, I love it and general animation today. It plays a part in my (hopeful) career path. I think it’s a case by case basis (and possibly generational)!

There's another adaption of the Cinderella story called Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella that's definitely worth the watch! The cast has a lot of celebrities, including: Whoopi Goldberg, Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander, Brandy Norwood and Bernadette Peters! It's a musical but all the songs are different from the Disney adaptation so it's not stale at all. I watched it a lot as a kid, and rewatched it recently. It holds up to this day in my opinion and it's a gorgeous movie. The costumes are great and the choreography and music are awesome.

You should watch “Won’t you be my neighbor” Mr.Rogers would be proud of your quote.

Idk if you knew this already but fun fact: the brothers Grimm version of Cinderella had the step sisters cut their feet (I think their toes?) in order to try and fit in the glass slipper🥴

The word you're looking for with clocks that have hands are Analogue clocks. The one specifically here is even harder as it's in roman numerals as well. I was specifically taught analogue with roman numerals since my grandmother looked after me a lot after school (her house was literally a minute walk away) because of my mom and dad working. Most of her clocks when I was young were all in roman numerals, so they fast tracked the normal method of reading to get to the roman numerals lol.

I loved this Cinderella as a kid. As an adult, I liked that even though she was 'beat down' in her role as a servant in her own home, she was still feisty and kept her positive attitude. Also check out: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) Cinderella (2015) The Glass Slipper (1955) I love that in The Glass Slipper, the Prince knew who 'Ella' was from the beginning. Beautiful ballet musical.

you should react to the 2015 live action adaptation! It’s one of my favourite comfort movies to watch

You should watch Ever After, it's a real life Cinderella and the best, in my opinion. I bet Jane would love it too!

Since you did ask about the setting and the story the movie is based on, if you don't mind a bit of info-dumping, the evolution and spread of myth, legend, and folk tales has been a special interest of mine for decades. Disney based many of their earlier feature films on stories collected by the Brothers Grim in the 1800s. The brothers traveled about Europe collecting and rewriting old fairy tales and folk stories that had been passed down by oral tradition for generations. Cinderella, in the form it is best known, was first recorded in the 1600s. However, it is an archetypal story with many different versions from various cultures around the world dating back to at least somewhere around the transition from the last century BCE to the first century CE where it was told about a Greek slave girl who ended up marrying Pharoah, who identified her via her sandals. As Disney is want to do, they altered the story from the source material quite a bit. The Grim's version is quite a bit darker. They also decided to set it in what is likely sometime during the last half of the 1800s in France, based on the costuming, architecture, and surnames. I don't know near as much about the inheritance laws and available jobs for young women in France at the time as I do for England and America, but there wouldn't have been much. And most likely, what there was would have made her situation with her stepmother and sisters seem like paradise by comparison.

Is the Fairy Godmother a wizard? No, she's a Fairy lol

The Cinderella live action is the best Disney live action movie in my opinion they really show her kindness and character, that’s what I think is unique about Cinderella as a princess.

I didn't watch this version of Cinderella as a kid either. We had another timeless classic :) It's translated as Three Wishes for Cinderella and it's a Czech/East German co-production film from 1973. It is on TV every single Christmas in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and possibly other European countries. Apparently it was released in English too, so if you wanted to check out a different version and could get your hands on a copy, it really is quite charming ;)

The narrator at the beginning of Cinderella also provided the voice for Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians .. great reaction.

I highly suggest you watch Cinderella 3 : A Twist In Time and Cinderella 1997 starring Brandy and Whitney Houston!!!!!!

the mouse untangling his tail is me untangling earphone cords!

I'm so glad to hear that you're going to do the old Disney movies! May I suggest, "Sleeping Beauty," the artwork is unbelievable and Maleficent is something else as the villainess. And then, I also recommend the live-action movie, "Maleficent," starring Angelina Jolie in the title role. She owned it.

Cinderella!!! So excited to see you react to the classics before diving into the, animated masterpiece, that is Shrek (the 4th one has a special place in my heart)

Pinocchio is another great older movie ;P

My throat always closes up when Cinderella is left standing with her torn dress & she runs away crying about how she just can't take it anymore

I had this movie on VHS as a kid and watched it so much that I actually broke it lol I distinctly remember the day it broke and we announced "Cinderella finally bit the dust" and we all had a laugh 😂 I love that you're going back and watching all these Disney Princess classics! I have a feeling you'll love Sleeping Beauty, which features one of my favorite Disney villains of all time. ❤️

and really like how the second sister starts to change hersel from the evil sister to good one in the sequel she is like i don't wanna be mean anymore i think it was anastasia that started to change

Be sure to react to Snow White & the seven dwarfs! She’s my favorite Disney princess of all time. She always has ever since I was small. Also, fun fact: She’s the first ever Disney princess.

Fun Fact: Cinderella's transformation was Walt Disney's favorite iconic scene.

Yay! I love that u are reacting to all the classics. We love you ❤

Hi JV! I think you should really check out the new CINDERELLA LIVE ACTION movie played by Lily James. It shows more in depth characters of both Cinderella and Lady Tremaine. It gives you the villain's background, shows Cinderella's power, the prince's character, AND the depth of their relationship even more.

her fairy godmother isn't a wizard/witch, she's a fairy. it's not the same thing lol :p enjoyed the reaction! yes, you should probably watch snow white and sleeping beauty before shrek if you want to be able to catch and appreciate all the references! sleeping beauty is one of my favorite of the classic disney princess movies (not the princess, just the movie itself for other reasons), next to mulan and beauty and the beast.

I still have the DVD for this movie. Me and my sisters would play this movie over and over again during the weekends.

12:22 I can tell that the actresses can sing really well even though they’re trying to sound bad I can tell they still have actual talent.

You should watch the Cinderella live action one it is so good and also this one is a classic❤️❤️

Cinderella is based on a story by the grimm brothers.. not so kid friendly lol. but disney and people child-defy it.

i would really recommend watching cinderella 3: a twist in time!!! it’s personally a really good sequel to the original and i love it so much! there’s a lot more action so i think you’d really like it :)

Clogs are actually not that uncomfortable. And theres really nothing some warm, woollen socks cant fix. They were worn on the fields to protect your feet from nails etc. so leather shoes and even some modern shoes wouldnt compare to their safety. Also, most of Disney's stories are just retelling old folktales with the true ending replaced with a 'happily ever after'. It wasnt that uncommon for kids to have lost at least one of their parents in those times.

Can you react to Cinderella 3 , a twist in Time!!?? That is a amazing film!! 🤩🤩🤩

You are right that it’s not motion captured animation, but they did rely heavily on live action references during this time period where they were drawing some very realistic-looking humans. If you look on RU-vid, you can find these reference sessions! I don’t know if there’s as much rotoscoping (basically tracing over reference footage) as there was in Snow White since this was like 13 years later and they’d had more practice, but that’s a good sign when you can’t pinpoint rotoscoping. 😆

Cinderella is my all time favorite from Disney. It's my childhood and I probably still have the cassette somewhere in the storage. You should watch all sequels of Cinderella. 2 is definitely my favorite although I grew up watching 1 a lot.

21:53 correct. It basically means in this case “enjoy yourselves“ the term meaning “men loving men” came about in the 1960s somehow.

Snow White and the Seven Darves, Pinocchio, and Bambi were my classics!

so glad you're doing this film! my two best friends and I all love the three classic princess movies (Snow White, cinderella and sleeping beauty) and we each have one favorite of the three, mine being this one. even though I grew up watching sleeping beauty more, this film just stuck with me in a way that sleeping beauty didn't. I think it's because it's such a soft film, and I tend to like those a lot. you should definitely check out the live action version with Lily James from 2015, it's one of my top 5 favorite films of all time and I feel keeps the spirit of the original while still being different

I find the king hilarious, especially when he gets mad😂. European washed floors on their knees because there was no mops yet.

I think the dress thing is called a “bustle”…? I’ll have to look it up to be sure lol. I got a sewing machine 2 years ago which I’m still learning how to use, but I like quilting, haven’t tried clothing yet. Loved your reaction to this, I used to watch it as a kid. And I agree with the other comments, the 3rd Cinderella movie is actually really quality for a Disney sequel! I know you have a long list of movies to watch but if you ever get the chance! :)

So as a kid, I loved all the scenes with Jack Jack and Gus Gus (and I still do), but now I really appreciate the scene where Cinderella dances with the Prince to the song, "So this is Love." It's not just her falling romantically in love, but also her receiving kindness and respect, something she doesn't have. It actually makes me tear up when I think about it. Great reaction video!

ever after is one of many live versions of this but it's my favorite please react to Ever After 1998 movie with Drew Barrymore

Cinderella was my favorite princess when i was younger! I enjoy modern princesses/heroines more today but i hate when people say she's a bad female character just because of the old time... I mean she's kind and positive but also very strong to bear all of this all these years and what else could she do? She couldn't run away that easy without money or place to go... Also i recommand you the 2015 Cinderella remake. I usually don't like Disney's remakes but this one was well done i think, it has a touch of modernity but keep the fairy tale spirit which is very nice!

I tear up every time I have to watch her stepsisters rip her dress apart at the height of her happiness. It’s just awful.

I’m best when sewing by hand. I was always sewing for all my siblings and my parents.

"Just a regular girl", would make her a peasant as opposed to nobility or royalty. And generally speaking, Royalty/Nobility didn't mix with peasantry. That's what makes the story of Cinderella, & stories & cases like it - a "fairytale" story... If you've never seen Ever after with Drew Barrymore, & Angelica Houston you should. It's not animated, but it's a live VERSION of Cinderella. I love it. And based on your reaction to many of the Animated/Disney Films, I think you'd love it too. Also the movie The Wedding Singer with Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler is great (IMO), although it's not Animated or a so called Fairytale. A lesser reacted to film is The Secret Garden authored originally by the same Author who wrote A Little Princess , & Little Lord Fauntleroy (the latter of which I've never read, or watched the movie). But I love the 1993 version of The Secret Garden. Also The Black Stallion (1979) & The Black Stallion Returns (1983) are fantastic horse films based on the books by Walter Farley. Also the Movie "Moll Flanders" with Stockade Channing from Grease, Morgan Freeman, & Robin Wright, who the Princess Bride, Jenny in Forest Gump, & Antiope (the one who trained her for combat) in Wonder Woman 2017, is a terrific film with an orphan heroine. And then there's 2012 Les Miserables (with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, & Amanda Seyfried), is a terrific movie/musical based on the book by Victor Hugo, who also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is about the Less Fortunate in society, such as convicts, prostitutes, & orphans. But follows the lives of one specific convict, prostitute, & orphan whose lives intersect....I absolutely loved this version of it. I sew... The last 2 things I made were a carry pouch for my little bitty Miniature Pinscher, & a coat for her, both of which I designed myself. If you notice, many of the best stories, books, & movies throughout history are about Orphans/ Half Orphans/Adoptees. I'm an Adoptee. BTW, the terminology STEP Mother/Father, Sister, Brother, is terminology to create a link where there is none. Meaning they are no relation. They are strangers. Yet the child is coerced, brainwashed, or forced to think of them & call them relation. The same thing happens with Adoption. You are integrated/or legally trafficked, (depending on the situation & how you want to look at it, into a family not your own, a strange place with strangers, & told "This is your family now", & you have little or no say about it. You're name & identity is changed, you are given an amended Birth Certificate with altered facts, & your Records are Closed & Sealed. Yes open adoption is sometimes available nowadays. But those can become like a closed Adoption at any time, If the Adoptive parents choose not to honor the open agreement. There's nothing in place to stop them, from my understanding. Okay - Sorry for that tangent - it's just I think the #script should be flipped - when it comes to the ethics & laws surrounding Adoption, & Relationships between adults & children, where the children's rights & protection are not honored or considered.... Thank you for your reaction.

Cinderella took place around 18th c., early 19th century France

I was exposed to it because of the Disney Channel in the 80's. It wasn't cheap to have that channel. I also owned a lot of the VHS tapes of Disney. My parents kept Disney in my wheelhouse.

This is my favorite one made during Walt’s era. As a kid, it was the first time I got angry for a character’s mistreatment. When they tore her dress and left her crying when she was SO CLOSE to going to the ball, I’m like “Hey they can’t do that! The Stepmom cheated! That’s not fair!”

This is my favorite Disney movie 💙🐁

interesting that her dress is silver but in all the Disney Princess marketing they made it blue. Apparently it was because it seemed too much like a wedding dress

19:09 LMAO when I was younger, I made a flipnote story thing on my nintendo DS about Cinderella: When the sisters went to the ball and Cindy was at home, she burned the house down. Then she caught fire and died with the house

You need to watch Cinderella 3. That movie was amazing surprisingly.

This specific Cinderella film is set in the mid to late 1800s.

One of my favorite Disney movies I love the classics! Dumbo makes me cry!

you should definitely watch sleeping beauty. probably one of the most gorgeous movies ever animated.

And they did use rotoscoping which is the hand drawn version of motion capture sketching over live action footage, but they used it rarely because they didn't have too much need for it unless a scene was too complicated to just do without it. So it was good use sometimes.

12:00 The Prince isn’t too fond of the idea either. Until he sees Cinderella

26:19 When a monarch dubs someone into knighthood like Sir Jean Luc Picard or Dame Maggie Smith. It is traditionally done with a sword. Because the whole point is that you are essentially appointed as knights sworn to protect the king and/or queen

the wood shoes were good enought for places that would soak your normal ones, like working with fish or fishing areas, to go to your piece of land after it rained... "what the heck, luficer!!" well, his name is lucifer xddddddd also yes, back in the day you had to clean the floors on your knees...

6:54 I think those are basically shoe covers. They had clogs in France too. But it was seen more as a lower class thing. It’s basically to keep her indoor shoes clean as she works in stables and whatever.

Cinderella was set in France late 19 century, so somewhere about 1870s-1890s since you asked in the video :)!

Cinderella was the first Disney princess movie I saw, my grandmother introduced me to all the great classic Disney films and this one has a special place in my heart. Love this reaction!

Next, I might also recommend some live-action Disney movies, too. Which ones? Old Yeller (please everyone, do not spoil it. He needs to feel it genuinely during the scene), and Benji (wasn't actually made BY Disney, but I think they had some part in it. It doesn't really have any action, though. Just a slice of life movie, with a killer score that I wish I could find on RU-vid)

This is adapted from a French telling of the story of Cinderella, and it's pretty clearly set in France -- they talk about chateaus, the family name is Tremaine, and the main mouse is named Jacques. The time would be the early 19th century -- men's styles have changed away from the knee-breeches and powdered wigs of the 18th century. And you're quite right that women of the upper classes (even if abused, and essentially servants in their own house) were not allowed to get jobs. Such employment was only for those of the lower social classes. Thank you for a great reaction.

Cinderella is a great Disney classic, it's one of the most magical princess movie! One of my favorite scenes from Disney movies is the dress transformation. Cinderella's fairy Godmother is so cute. And the King is so crazy and funny. Please please please, watch RIO, available at Disney Plus. It's an amazing movie, so adorable and at the same time it talks about a very serious theme in the world, which is the illegal sale of wild animals. And, as you may have already imagined, it takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! It's so good!

Loved your reaction! The time period would have been mid-to-late 1800’s (although the original story would have been 1600’s, the Disney adaptation takes place later in the 1800’s) I don’t think there would have been very many options for an unwed woman to be working and living on her own, she’d probably have to join a convent. You should watch ‘Ever After’ with Drew Barrymore. A live action adaptation.

I like Cinderella a lot! I hope you watch the live action sometime ❤️

I heard in the original story that the two stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to make the glass slipper fit. But it still doesn’t work/fit.

"Cinderella 1"is fine,but I prefer"Cinderella 3"! You should *definitelly* check that out!!!🤩But it's better to go through"Cinderella 2"first...it's the worst of the 3 movies,but there is *_1 thing in particular_* you don't wanna miss...also...when you watch"Cinderella 3"(PLEASE,DO!!!🙏)stay and _watch the credits too!!_ Also...you should watch the live action...no,not the Disney one,but the one with Drew Barrymore,"Ever After"!!🧡💚I personally liked the one with Camila Cabelo as well,but I know most people talk shit about it and..I don't wanna see another person adding to the list!X"-(( Anyway,"Ever After"is *so much better anyway!*

I took a sewing class my freshman yr of high school. Learned both hand and machine. I can do basic stitching.

12:14 thats why the cats called lucifer

2:10 The 1st few Disney movies started out with the opening of a book. I don’t know how many but: I know Snow White, Cinderella, sleeping beauty, Robin Hood and some others I believe.

Please do the roger and Hammerstein cinderella. Its so fun. 🥺

I know somebody already said it but you should watch Cinderella 3. Not 2 you can skip that one but PLEASE watch 3. You will LOVE it

The mice are the rockstars of this movie so funny

17:13 I know how to sew! By hand and machine :)