Description
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This video explores some of the earliest known female songs in animated feature films from around the world, highlighting how women’s voices have been part of animation since its very beginnings. Long before modern animated musicals became mainstream, female characters were already singing on screen across different countries, languages, and storytelling traditions.
Early animation history is often discussed through a small group of well-known Disney films for most part, but animated feature filmmaking developed simultaneously in many regions. This compilation looks beyond to showcase historically early female vocal performances in full-length animated films, focusing on songs that appear within the films themselves either sung by characters or as solo numbers in the background.
Note: For certain countries (such as France and the Philippines), the song included here may not be the absolute first female song in that nation’s animation history, but it is the earliest surviving and publicly available example currently accessible online, based on existing sources and footage.
The animated feature films featured in this video, listed chronologically by year and country, include:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – USA
Princess Iron Fan [铁扇公主] (1941) – China
La Rosa di Bagdad (1949) – Italy
Snegurochka [Снегурочка] (1952) – Soviet Union / Russia
Hakujaden [白蛇伝] (1958) – Japan
Pollux et le Chat Bleu (1970) – France
Agaton Sax och Byköpings gästabud (1976) – Sweden
Robot Taekwon V 2: Space Operation [로보트 태권 V 2: 우주작전] (1976) – South Korea
Habfürdő (1979) – Hungary
Katy la Oruga (1984) – Mexico
The Boy and the King [رحلة الخلود ] (1992) – Saudi Arabia
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama [रामायण - श्री राम कथा] (1993) – India
Putih (2001) – Malaysia
Nak [นาค] (2008) – Thailand
Urduja (2008) – Philippines
Meraih Mimpi (2009) – Indonesia
The Secret of Kells (2009) – Ireland
The Last Fiction [آخرین داستان] (2018) – Iran
Dế Mèn: Cuộc Phiêu Lưu Tới Xóm Lầy Lội (2025) – Vietnam
Across different eras, animation styles, and cultural traditions, these songs reveal how female voices have always played a foundational role in animated cinema, expressing emotion, mythology, identity, and narrative through music.
Let me know which song or film stood out to you the most — and which country’s first animated female song did you enjoy the most in the comments below.
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