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Beauty and the Beast Walt Disney 1991
About the Film 
Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney, 1991) is Walt Disney's thirtieth animated feature film. The story is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by french author Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and a 1946 film version of the novel. This cinematic masterpiece required the talents
of nearly 600 animators, artists, and technicians and took three and a half years to produce. Art directors working on the film traveled to the Loire
valley in France for inspiration, and studied the work of romantic French painters
like Fragonard and Boucher.
Lyricist and Executive producer Howard Ashman is credited with having the idea to transform the castle's enchanted
objects into living creatures with unique personalities. Glen Keane, the supervising
animator on the Beast, created his own hybrid beast by combining the mane
of a lion, the beard and head structure of a buffalo, the tusks and nose bridge
of a wild boar, the heavily muscled brow of a gorilla, the legs and tail of
a wolf, and the big and bulky body of a bear.
Computer-generated imagery was used in several parts of the film, most notably
in the "Be Our Guest" sequence and in the creation of a striking
three-dimensional ballroom background, allowing dramatic camera movements
on the animated characters as they danced. Walt Disney producers and animators were wary of computer animation and unsure how the industry and audiences would react to it. However new improvements in technology and CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) convinced them to test out computer animation in some of the film's scenes. Beauty and the Beast was a pioneer in computer-based animation and the success of the ballroom sequence helped convince studio executives to further invest in computer animation.
Beauty and the Beast was a major critical and commercial success. Worldwide box office
revenues exceeded $400 million, breaking all previous records for animated feature films. Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Academy Awards® in four categories and was the first animated feature ever nominated for Best Picture. The film two awards, for Best Song ("Beauty and the Beast" by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken)
and Best Original Score. Beauty and the Beast was released on video in 1992.
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