“The makers saw an opportunity there and a market, and they made the first feature-length, animated colour film in Europe.
Bull drew parallels between Garbancito and Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, often cited as the first full-length, animated feature film with sound.
Seventy-five years after he first sallied forth to fight giants, dwarves and witches armed only with an unwavering sense of piety, a magic sword and a goat for a sidekick, the young star of Europe’s first feature-length colour animated film could be returned to his original glory.
Cerdán said Garbancito and his friends deserved their place in the history of Spanish and European cinema.