Films with live action and animation

Updated on Nov 29, 2023

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A live-action animated film is a film genre that combines both live action with traditional animation or computer animation sequences that add to the plot or sequence of films. This can include portraying animated characters interacting with cast members.

This is a list of films that combine live action and animated elements, typically interacting.

1900s

1900 – The Enchanted Drawing

1910s

1914 – Gertie the Dinosaur

1917 – När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras ("When Captain Grogg was to be painted")

1920s

Alice Comedies (live action girl in animated surroundings)

1929 – Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid

Out of the Inkwell (animated characters in live action surroundings)

1930s

1930 – The King of Jazz (animation segment made by Walter Lantz)

1933 – Zero For Conduct

1934 – Hollywood Party (animation stagement known as The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers)

1934 – Servants' Entrance (sequence with animated singing silverware)

1940s

1940 – Fantasia

1940 – You Ought to Be in Pictures

1941 – The Reluctant Dragon

1942 – Eatin' On The Cuff, or The Moth Who Came to Dinner (beginning and end only)

1942 – Holiday Inn (Thanksgiving opening sequence only)

1943 – Saludos Amigos

1943 – Victory Through Air Power

1943 – Who Killed Who? (two live action sequences)

1945 – Anchors Aweigh (Tom and Jerry make an appearance)

1945 – The Three Caballeros

1945 – The Enemy Bacteria

1946 – Song of the South

1947 – Fun and Fancy Free

1948 – Melody Time (with Amigo Lady from Blame it on the Samba)

1948 – Two Guys from Texas

1949 – My Dream Is Yours

1949 – So Dear to My Heart

1949 – Senior Droopy (MGM short featuring a segment with Lina Romay and Droopy)

1949 – Alice in Wonderland

1950s

1950 – Destination Moon

1953 – Dangerous When Wet

1953 – The Three Little Pups (cowboys riding horses; Southern Wolf riding on black-and-white live action horse)

1956 – Invitation to the Dance (The third and final segment of Sinbad the Sailor)

1957 – The Black Scorpion

1958 – Fiend Without a Face

1959 – Behemoth, the Sea Monster

1959 – The Mouse That Jack Built (live-action sequence at the end)

1960s

1960 – Dinosaurus!

1963 – The Pink Panther (animation opening and ending segment)

1963 – Cici Can (animated ghost by Yalçın Çetin)

1964 – Mary Poppins

1964 – A Shot in the Dark

1964 – The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1965 – Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (opening credits animated by Ronald Searle)

1966 – Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (live action opening and end credits footage)

1966 – The Daydreamer (live action and stop motion sequences)

1967 – Cricket on the Hearth (live action with animated sequences)

1968 – Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (live action opening and end credits footage 1966)

1968 – Yellow Submarine (live action closing)

1969 – The Valley of Gwangi

1970s

1970 – Song of Norway

1970 – The Phantom Tollbooth

1971 – Aesop's Fables

1971 – Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 - Godzilla vs. Hedorah (animated sequences)

1972 – The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (live action with stop motion and animated sequences)

1972 – The War Between Men and Women

1973 – Heavy Traffic

1973 – Marco (live action and stop motion sequences)

1974 – The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1974 – Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

1974 – Dunderklumpen!

1975 – Coonskin

1975 – Monty Python and the Holy Grail (animated sequences)

1975 – The Return of the Pink Panther (credits sequence)

1976 – Allegro Non Troppo

1976 – Futureworld

1976 – Eraserhead (one scene)

1976 – The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Opening and closing credits sequences)

1977 – The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

1977 – Pete's Dragon (Elliot the dragon animated character)

1977 – Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (Claire Williams sequences)

1977 – Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

1977 – Dot and the Kangaroo

1977 – Gulliver's Travels

1978 – The Water Babies

1978 – Laserblast

1978 – Grease (Opening credits sequence)

1978 – Revenge of the Pink Panther (Opening credits sequence)

1978 – Star Wars Holiday Special (Boba Fett sequence)

1979 – Life of Brian (opening credits)

1979 – The Little Convict

1980s

1980 – The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (some segments)

1980 – Popeye (opening sequence in black-and-white)

1980 – Xanadu (animated sequence by Don Bluth)

1980 – 9 to 5 (one scene)

1981 – Around the World with Dot

1981 – Maria, Mirabela

1981 – The Great Muppet Caper (animated birds flying around Kermit's head)

1982 – Creepshow (opening credits)

1982 – Pink Floyd The Wall (animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe)

1982 – Creepshow (opening credits)

1982 – Pink Floyd The Wall (animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe)

1982 – Tron (CGI during the entire movie)

1982 – Trail of the Pink Panther (Opening credits)

1982 – The Dark Crystal

1983 – Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore

1983 – Dot and the Bunny

1983 – Twice Upon a Time (black-and-white live-action sequences)

1983 – The Meaning of Life

1983 – The Twilight Zone: The Movie

1984 – Ghostbusters

1985 – Return to Oz (animated effects by Will Vinton)

1985 – Pee-wee's Big Adventure (large marge scary face scene)

1985 – Better Off Dead (burger scene)

1985 – Follow That Bird

1985 – I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (opening sequence) (TV movie)

1986 – Dot and Keeto

1986 – Little Shop of Horrors

1986 – Dot and the Whale

1986 – One Crazy Summer (animated sequences)

1986 – Labyrinth

1987 – Mannequin (opening sequence)

1987 – Creepshow 2 (opening credits)

1987 – Scruffy

1987 – Dot and the Smugglers

1987 – Dot Goes to Hollywood

1987 – The Gate

1987 – Who's That Girl

1987 – Twilight of the Cockroaches

1988 – Treasure Island (Soviet film)

1988 – Alice

1988 – Moonwalker (Speed Demon segment)

1988 – Mickey's 60th Birthday (TV special)

1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988 – Maria, Mirabela in Transistorland

1989 – Ghostbusters II

1989 – Going Overboard (a few sequences)

1989 – McGee & Me! (series of 12 videos produced 1989-93)

1989 – Raja Chinna Roja

1989 – Opposites Attract

1989 - Godzilla vs. Biollante (stop motion and animated sequences) (deleted scenes)

1990s

1990 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (electric gremlin, stop motion, and Chuck Jones animation sequence)

1990 – Deepa & Rupa: A Fairy Tale from India

1990 – Grim Prairie Tales (dream sequence)

1990 – Rockin' Through the Decades

1990 – Skat Strut

1991 – Problem Child 2 (Cartoon rabies scene)

1991 – I Still Dream of Jeannie (Opening sequence)

1991 – Rock-A-Doodle

1991 – Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas

1991 – Volere volare

1991 – Yakety Yak, Take it Back

1991 – Muppet*Vision 3D

1992 – Cool World

1992 – Bebe's Kids (live action opening)

1992 – Stay Tuned (animated sequence by Chuck Jones)

1992 – Evil Toons

1992 – Broken Nine Inch Nails

1992 – Big Time

1992 – The Lawnmower Man (animated sequences)

1992 – Braindead (one scene)

1992 – Trash Talk

1992 – Blinky Bill

1993 – O' Faby

1993 – Last Action Hero (one character)

1993 – Jurassic Park (one character)

1993 – Opéra imaginaire

1993 – Robocop 3

1993 – Son of the Pink Panther (animated sequence by Desert Music Pictures)

1993 – Mrs. Doubtfire

1994 – Dot in Space

1994 – Natural Born Killers

1994 – Faust

1994 – The Flintstones

1994 – The Mask

1994 – The Pagemaster

1995 – Casper

1995 – Balto (live action opening and closing)

1995 – Four Rooms (animated opening credits)

1996 – Conspirators of Pleasure

1996 – Joe's Apartment

1996 – A Very Brady Sequel

1996 – The Stupids

1996 – James and the Giant Peach

1996 – Space Jam

1997 – Casper: A Spirited Beginning

1997 – For the Bible Tells Me So

1998 – Casper Meets Wendy

1998 – Lost in Space

1998 – Run Lola Run

1998 – Small Soldiers

1998 – Pleasantville

1999 – Stuart Little

1999 – Inspector Gadget

2000s

2000 – The 10th Kingdom (animated butterflies and hearts, and the singing ring, in the Kissing Town sequence and the coronation banquet scene)

2000 – The Tigger Movie (opening scene)

2000 – The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

2000 – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

2000 – Thomas and the Magic Railroad

2000 – Fantasia 2000

2000 – Dinosaur

2000 – Little Otik

2000 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2001 – Osmosis Jones

2001 – Monkeybone

2001 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch (The Origin of Love sequence)

2001 – Big Shot's Funeral

2001 – Freddy Got Fingered

2001 – Cats & Dogs

2002 – El Rey de la Granja (The King Farm)

2002 – The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

2002 – Scooby-Doo

2002 – Stuart Little 2

2002 – Bowling for Columbine (the A Brief History of the United States of America segment)

2002 – Lilo & Stitch (Elvis Presley's picture and clip from Earth vs. the Spider)

2003 – Elf (stop-motion characters)

2003 – The Lizzie McGuire Movie

2003 – Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003 – Kill Bill: Volume 1

2003 – Inspector Gadget 2

2003 – The Cat in the Hat

2003 – Stitch! The Movie (live action satellites clip)

2004 – Garfield: The Movie

2004 – Immortal (animation sequences)

2004 – Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2004 – My Baby's Daddy

2004 – The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2004 – Team America: World Police

2004 – Fat Albert

2004 – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004 – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004 – Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo

2004 – The Lion King 1½ (live action sequence)

2004 – The World

2005 – Lunacy

2005 – The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

2005 – Reefer Madness ("The Brownie Song" sequence)

2005 – Chicken Little (Indiana Jones reference)

2005 – Son of the Mask

2005 – Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (animated sequence)

2005 – Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (clips of Them!and Elvis Presley's picture on map)

2006 – The Pink Panther (opening credits sequence)

2006 – Happy Feet (live action sequences)

2006 – Re-Animated

2006 – The Sparky Book

2006 – Miss Potter

2006 – The Science of Sleep

2006 – Hui Buh

2006 – Hoodwinked! (live action clip)

2006 – Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties

2006 – The Fall

2006 – Leroy & Stitch (Elvis Presley's picture)

2007 – Arthur and the Invisibles

2007 – Enchanted

2007 – Alvin and the Chipmunks

2007 – For the Bible Tells Me So (one animated sequence)

2007 – Resiklo

2008 – AROG (animated prehistoric animals)

2008 – WALL-E (live action clips)

2008 – Semum (animated demonic creatures)

2009 – Aliens in the Attic

2009 – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (one scene)

2009 – G-Force

2009 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

2009 – The Pink Panther 2 (ending segment)

2009 – Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock

2010s

2010 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (animated sequences)

2010 – Surviving Life

2010 – Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

2010 – Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (live action puppetry and stop-motion)

2010 – Ultramarines: The Movie

2010 – Yogi Bear

2010 – Shank

2010 – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

2010 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (The Tale of the Three Brothers sequence)

2010 – Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

2010 – Don't Go (live-action/animated short by Turgut Akaçık)

2011 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (animated sequences)

2011 – Winnie the Pooh (live action sequences)

2011 – Death of a Superhero

2011 – Priest (opening sequence)

2011 – Paul

2011 – Hop

2011 – The Smurfs

2011 – Happy Feet Two (live action sequences)

2011 – Open Season 3 (live action images)

2011 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

2012 – Yoko

2012 – Eega (live action animation of the fly protagonist)

2012 – Soledad & Larguirucho

2012 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (animated sequences)

2012 – Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

2013 – Robosapien: Rebooted

2013 – Movie 43

2013 – The Congress

2013 – The Smurfs 2

2013 – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (live action sequences)

2013 – Shimajirō to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana

2013 – Walking with Dinosaurs

2013 – Das kleine Gespenst

2014 – The Lego Movie (live action sequences)

2014 – Gekijōban Cardfight!! Vanguard

2014 – İksir – (animated animal characters)

2014 – Paddington

2014 – Shimajiro to Kujira no Uta

2015 – Absolutely Anything

2015 – Bana Masal Anlatma (opening sequence animated by Batuhan Özer)

2015 – Köstebekgiller: Perili Orman (animated gopher characters)

2015 – Shimajirō to Ōkina Ki

2015 – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (animated sequences)

2015 – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

2015 – Jurassic World (one character)

2015 – Pixels

2015 – American Ultra

2015 – Hotel Transylvania 2 (live action clip)

2015 – Goosebumps

2015 – Krampus (computer-animated sequences and cartoon sound effects)

2015 – Monster Hunt

2015 – He Named Me Malala

2015 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

2016 – Deadpool

2016 – Shimajirō to Kuni Ehon

2016 – The Jungle Book (CGI animals)

2016 – The BFG (CGI giants with motion-capture)

2016 – Ghostbusters (one character and GoAnimate sequence)

2016 – Pete's Dragon (CGI dragon)

2016 – Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

2016 – Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!

2016 – Saving Sally

2016 – Upin & Ipin: Jeng Jeng Jeng

2016 – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (features 2 CGI Characters)

2016 – Monster Trucks

Upcoming Films

2017 - Beauty and the Beast (CG animated characters)

2017 - Who Framed Lilo Pelekai & Roger Rabbit

2018 - Untitled Sonic film adaptation

2018 - Peter Rabbit

2019 - An American Holiday (found-footage comedy-drama with traditional and CG animation of Disney and Universal Studios characters)

TBA - Space Jam 2

TBA - James & the Giant Peach

References

Films with live action and animation Wikipedia

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