Question: Which film was made first, Snowball Express or The African Lion?

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Snowball Express: Snowball Express is a 1972 American screwball comedy film made by Walt Disney Productions about a man who leaves his middle class job to run a hotel left to him by his uncle.

Simba Chips: Simba Chips (commonly referred to as Simba) is a popular South African brand of potato crisps.  It was first introduced in 1957 by the Greyvensteyn family.  "Simba" is the Swahili word for "lion" and the product's mascot is an adult male African Lion.

Southwest African lion: The Southwest African lion ("Panthera leo melanochaita") is a lion population in Africa that was once considered a distinct subspecies under the scientific name "Felis leo bleyenberghi".  The type specimen was a male lion collected in the Katanga Province of Belgian Congo and described on the basis of its fur in 1914 by Einar Lönnberg.  In the last century, some authors called it the Katanga lion.

Tom Leetch: Tom Leetch is an American film producer, writer and director.  His career included working on films for Walt Disney Productions, under the leadership of Walt Disney's son-in-law, Ron Miller.  At Disney, Leetch first began as an assistant director on films such as "Mary Poppins", "The Ugly Dachshund" and "Monkeys, Go Home".  He then served in several positions as producer, associate producer, and director on films such as "Snowball Express", "Napoleon and Samantha", "Freaky Friday", "The North Avenue Irregulars", and "The Watcher in the Woods", a project in which he pitched to Ron Miller stating, "This could be our "Exorcist"."

Barbary lion: The Barbary lion ("Panthera leo leo") is the nominate lion subspecies.  In North Africa, lions are locally extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting; the last known Barbary lion was killed in Morocco in 1920.  Some authors referred to it as the Berber lion, and treated the Egyptian lion as a population of this subspecies.  Since it had inhabited the Atlas Mountains, and was also known as the Atlas lion.  In addition, Alfred Edward Pease referred to the Barbary lion as the North African lion, and claimed that the population had diminished since the mid-19th century, following the diffusion of firearms and bounties for shooting them.  The last recorded shooting of a wild Barbary lion took place in Morocco, near Tizi n'Tichka in 1942.  Small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s.

Central African lion: The Central African lion ("Panthera leo leo") is a lion population in Central Africa.  The names Congo lion and Northeast Congo lion referred to a subpopulation in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Uganda lion: The Uganda lion ("Panthera leo melanochaita") is a lion population in Uganda.  Results of a phylogeographic study indicate that lion populations in East African range countries are genetically close to those in Southern Africa; some are also genetically close to those in North and West Africa and Asia.  In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group subsumed African lion populations to two subspecies, namely "P. l. leo" and "P. l. melanochaita".

Pierre Louÿs: Pierre Louÿs (] , 10 December 1870 – 6 June 1925) was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings.  He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."  He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the Légion d'honneur for his contributions to French literature.

The African Lion: The African Lion is a 1955 feature-length documentary that was released by Walt Disney Productions as part of its "True-Life Adventures" series.  The film, which was shot over a three-year period focuses on the life of the Lion within the complexity of the African ecosystem.  At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear (Documentaries) award.

Lion: The lion ("Panthera leo") is one of the big cats in the Felidae family and a member of genus "Panthera".  It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996, as populations in African range countries declined by about 43% since the early 1990s.  Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes of concern.  The West African lion population is listed as Critically Endangered since 2016.  The only lion population in Asia survives in and around India's Gir Forest National Park and is listed as Endangered since 1986.

Supporting paragraphs: Snowball Express The African Lion
Answer: The African Lion