Frozen (2013 film) billion, and Lasseter was promoted to chief creative officer of both Pixar and Disney Animation. The next attempt started in 2008, when Lasseter was able to convince Chris Buck (who co-directed the 1999 film "Tarzan" for the studio) to return to Walt Disney Animation Studios from Sony Pictures Animation (where he had recently co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2007 film "Surf's Up"); that September, Buck pitched several ideas to Lasseter, one of which was "The Snow Queen". Buck later revealed that his initial inspiration for "The Snow Queen" was not the Andersen fairy tale itself, but that he wanted "to do something
The King and the Mockingbird but in Andersen's tale the shepherdess is afraid of the wide world and the duo return; this is echoed in the movie where the statue predicts that they will return. The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird is a 1952 animated film based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was known as La bergère et le ramoneur. The voice cast consisted of: Originally titled "La Bergère et le Ramoneur" ("The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep"), Grimault and Prévert began the film in 1948 (following their first collaboration, "Le Petit soldat" (The Little Soldier), also a Hans Christian Andersen adaptation),