This is a list of animated feature films first released in 1977.
Title | Country | Director | Studio | Technique | Format | Notes | Release | Duration | |
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Around the World with Bolek and Lolek | Poland | Theatrical | First Polish animated feature. | September 16, 1977 | 104 minutes | ||||
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | United States | Compilation of theatrical animated shorts; only hour-long Looney Tunes animated television special. | April 7, 1977 | 50 minutes | |||||
Donald Duck's Summer Magic | United States | Jack Hannah Jack King Dick Huemer Milt Schaffer | Film compiled from Disney theatrical animated shorts; originally released theatrically for overseas markets and never in the United States until December 17, 1977. | July 23, 1977 | 75 minutes | ||||
Dot and the Kangaroo | Australia | December 15, 1977 | 71 minutes | ||||||
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town | United States Japan | Rankin/Bass Productions Video Tokyo Production | April 6, 1977 | 50 minutes | |||||
Electronic Man 337 | South Korea | Lim Jung-kyu | Samdo Film Co., Ltd. | Theatrical | December 9, 1977 | 65 minutes | |||
Fantastic Animation Festival | United States | Dean A. Berko Christopher Padilla | Voyage Productions | Compilation of fourteen selected animated short films of varying quality and style. | May 27, 1977 | 91 minutes | |||
5 Weeks in a Balloon | Australia United States | Originally aired as the 25th installment of the CBS animated anthology series Famous Classic Tales (1970–1984). | November 24, 1977 | 60 minutes | |||||
A Flintstone Christmas | United States | December 7, 1977 | 48 minutes | ||||||
Gulliver's Travels | United Kingdom Belgium | May 6, 1977 | 80 minutes | ||||||
The Hobbit | United States Japan | November 27, 1977 | 78 minutes | ||||||
The Holiday of Disobedience | Soviet Union | The first, and so far the only, full-length animated feature film from Studio Ekran.[1] | 1977 | 47 minutes | |||||
A Journey to the Center of the Earth | Australia | Originally aired as the 24th installment of the CBS animated anthology series Famous Classic Tales (1970–1984). | November 13, 1977 | 60 minutes | |||||
Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Czechoslovakia West Germany | Bavaria Atelier Ceskoslovenský Filmexport Filmové Studio Gottwaldov Krátký Film Praha Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) Ustredni Pujcovna Filmu | Theatrical | March 1, 1978 | 73 minutes | ||||
The Lighthouse Island | East Germany | Theatrical | Made from 1974 to 1976, released in 1977.[2] | February 4, 1977 | 41 minutes | ||||
The Little Magician and the Big Bad Mark | East Germany | DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Babelsberg" VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb (GDR) | Theatrical | February 4, 1977 | 70 minutes | ||||
Love in Freedom | Belgium | Theatrical | May 18, 1977 | 76 minutes | |||||
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | United States | The first three Winnie the Pooh short films (Honey Tree, Blustery Day and Tigger Too) compiled into a three-part anthology film, with a few minutes of new wraparound animation. The shorts were previously released separately from February 4, 1966 to December 20, 1974. | March 11, 1977 | 74 minutes | |||||
Mattie the Goose-boy | Hungary | Theatrical | April 7, 1977 | 75 minutes | |||||
The Mouse and His Child | United States Japan | Theatrical | November 18, 1977 | 83 minutes | |||||
Mr. Rossi's Dreams | Italy | Bruno Bozzetto Film Wagner-Hallig Film | Theatrical | August 4, 1977 | 70 minutes | ||||
New Star of the Giants | Japan | Theatrical | December 1, 1977 | 77 minutes | |||||
Pete's Dragon | United States | The last live-action animated film produced by Disney until Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), released nine years later. | November 3, 1977 | 128 minutes | |||||
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | United States | Paramount Pictures United Feature Syndicate Mendelson/Melendez Productions | Theatrical | Third feature film in the Peanuts franchise, and the first to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. | August 24, 1977 | 75 minutes | |||
United States | Theatrical | April 1, 1977 | 86 minutes | ||||||
The Rescuers | United States | Theatrical | June 22, 1977 | 77 minutes | |||||
Robot Taekwon V: Underwater Rangers | South Korea | U Production | Theatrical | July 20, 1977 | 75 minutes | ||||
Space Battleship Yamato | Japan | Theatrical | First installment of the Space Battleship Yamato series. | August 6, 1977 | 145 minutes | ||||
Taekwon dongja Maruchi Arachi | South Korea | Lim Jung-kyu | Samdo Film Co., Ltd. | Theatrical | July 27, 1977 | 78 minutes | |||
The Wild Swans | Japan | Nobutaka Nishizawa | Theatrical | First film in the anthology film series Sekai Meisaku Dōwa ("World Masterpiece Fairy Tales"). | March 19, 1977 | 62 minutes | |||
Wizards | United States | Theatrical | Next-to-first animated feature released by 20th Century-Fox, and the first the studio produced. | February 9, 1977 | 80 minutes | ||||
Xiao shizhu donghua | China | Wang Shuchen Wu Qiang | Theatrical | 80 minutes |
Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | Ref | |
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1 | The Rescuers | Walt Disney Productions | US$29,000,000 | [3] | |
2 | Space Battleship Yamato | Group TAC | US$23,000,000 (2,100,000,000) | [4] |