The animated characters perform the same actions as the human actor.

The rest is locked in the labor, ingenuity and economic culture of the human actors.

The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter.

The simple presence of a few human actors is not enough.

So the animals didn't need rehearsals for the show sequence, but the human actors did.

It is well over fifty years since the last time a large-cast show used only human actors.

History's forces did not just sweep along passive human actors.

But the film's human actors are a big attraction, too.

Fate, one could say, is not blind, human actors may be.

The animals are indeed smart: they were bright enough to turn down much of the dialogue that the human actors have to speak.