Question about animated film ratings

[***Dark~Angel***]

I've been looking all over for this but can't find the answer. Does anyone happen to know what the first animated film was to receive a PG rating? I know The Black Cauldron was the first Disney film to get one, but were there any animated films at all before that to receive PG?

 

[WilliamJ]

Wizards, Lord of the Rings, Watership Down

Also, several animated films got X ratings.

 

[PaPa Squat]

I bet those would be interesting to watch.

 

[Blinkerz]

Mostly Ralph Bakshi films (Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Coonskin), as well as Roger Corman rip-offs of said films and the occasional erotic anime made its way over here. The Bakshi ones actually got mere Rs on rereleases but they were shocking for their time and still much more than you see in most animation.

 

[faithcopeland]

I think it was Lord of the Rings but I'm not sure.

 

[gandalf_greyhame13]

I did some searching on IMDB and it looks like, as far as the USA is concerned, the first full-length animated feature to be rated PG was the 1973 French/Czechoslovakian import Fantastic Planet.

Apparently, the only cartoon to be rated GP (that's what the PG rating was for a brief while, before they changed it to stop people thinking it stood for "general patronage") was The Crunch Bird, a two-minute short from 1971.

 

[Pizzt]

What about all the Don Bluth films?

We don't have ratings where I come from, BUT... Bluth had some scary stuff in his movies

 

[Superior Jeans]

Secret of Nimh and An American Tail are rated G, but Don Bluth is on record saying that they should have been at least PG.