[frank ballenger]

I read that Walt Disney gathered his creative team in his office after the death of the dog in Old Yeller made thousands of children cry.
He sternly warned them to never again have a plot like that for any Disney movie.
He died December 15, 1966.

[dead]

Finding Nemo opens up with the wholesale slaughter of Nemo’s mother and a couple hundred of his siblings. They were all eaten alive.