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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…of the most wonderful and sophisticated animated films ever made. Films like Cinderella, Alice, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and One Hundred And One Dalmatians are, to… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…Studios make them to churn out a few more bucks from a successful enterprise before it fades to the wayside. Beauty and the Beast was one of the two movies… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…rough animation style. While Sleeping Beauty was created with the lush storybook-come-to-life feel that audiences had come to expect from a Disney film, it was still the box-office failure that… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…inspire his animation of the lead character Briar Rose in Sleeping Beauty. Married in June 1956, Alice and Marc enjoyed a Disney fairy-tale-romance-come-true for 44 years until Marc’s death in… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…Prince from Sleeping Beauty that Milt Kahl did, and somebody had cut that out. And it was part of a board I guess, sort of a model sheet, although I’d… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…all of the early Disney pictures (Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Song Of The South, Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty) all now regarded as animation masterpieces, and in which Johnston… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…made by Walt Disney is precisely because of its rough animation style. While Sleeping Beauty was created with the lush storybook-come-to-life feel that audiences had come to expect from a… |
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Maleficent obsession!
Disney will no doubt be claiming record number sales of Sleeping Beauty on DVD and Blu-ray Disc (figures have yet to be officially released), which is a far cry from… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…call you and make a deal, and sometimes you buy a whole bunch, sometimes just one drawing. I just found on eBay a drawing of the Prince from Sleeping Beauty… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
The big news left over from last week, of course, is the announcement that bona fide Disney Studio classic Sleeping Beauty will be making her high definition videodisc debut next… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…film that really brings humans to the fore with such plotted passions, there’s precious little life in them. Likewise the backgrounds owe more to Sleeping Beauty (a fact I recall… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…when the public’s fascination with such films couldn’t be counted upon, such as with Sleeping Beauty, that the Studio took off in a more contemporary direction, filling its films with… |
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Beauty And The Beast
…must have in its deluxe Platinum Edition DVD package, Beauty And The Beast is there to own in a spruced up, dusted off and cleaned brand new special edition. Featuring… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…of Angelina Jolie’s turn as Sleeping Beauty‘s eponymous villain. Of course, with such a huge megastar in the title role, changes were going to be made, but for all the… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…Enchanted Tales which proves that, while the look may be emulated, Sleeping Beauty’s animation is untouchable. Moving into the Bonus Features proper, and the I Still Believe music video is… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…by the age of 8 that he wanted to become an animator. Inspired by such Disney classics as Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio, as well as Bob Thomas’ primer The Art… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…by Sammy Fain (also an Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan songwriter) and Jack Lawrence for Sleeping Beauty before it was decided to base it on Tchaïkovsky’s music? About the… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…cut down the costs that the elaborate and lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty had proved were too expensive. Beauty had been in production over six years at the Studio, eating up… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…lines too smooth! The original, complete film opens with a highly stylised traditional Sleeping Beauty castle Disney logo which dissolves into the main titles and patchwork quilt that Henry’s wife… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…noted that they got their start at the same time on the same film, Sleeping Beauty. Moreover, they managed to work on what Norman knew too well as Sequence 8,… |
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The Swan Princess Lasts Far Longer Than Forever with Director Richard Rich
…couldn’t have an ending where the princess died. When I started this, I was looking for a fairy tale that would be done in the vein of Cinderella or Sleeping… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…the likes of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty And The Beast. The Road To Broadway And Beyond, as its title suggests, looks primarily at the original inception of Aladdin as… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…their references come from Walt’s classics (the research on Princess and the Frog, inspired by Lady and the Tramp, Tangled, inspired by Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty among others). How do… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…fantasies of Alice and Peter Pan, respectively, and just before the ambitious Sleeping Beauty, perhaps the zenith of the Disney-styled fairytale picture. Walt’s Nine Old Men certainly pulled out all… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…successful response to its 1977 predecessor, The Rescuers, which once held the domestic record of highest opening for an animated feature. In 1991, Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s masterpiece Beauty… |
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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced plans to release at least fifteen of its films on Disney 3D Blu-ray in 2011. Animated classics The Lion King and Beauty and the… |
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Academy event to honor 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast
The Academy is honoring the 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast. Details follow in this AMPAS press release Eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken and three-time Oscar nominee Angela Lansbury… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…marks the 20th anniversary of Hercules. While not a top-tier classic on level with the likes of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid, it had… |
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Enchanted
…tower, surrounded by the friendly forest critters we’ve come to know most notably from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty – only, they’re not quite how we remember them. There’s a… |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
…documentary of a different kind next, but still keeping with the magic of the Mouse, and Don Hahn’s Waking Sleeping Beauty sounds most intriguing. We’ve all heard about the shenanigans… |
