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Beauty and the Beast contained 1,295 painted backgrounds, 120,000 drawings... 370 men and women were involved in the film's production ...of whom, 43 were animators. Songs take up twenty-five minutes of the film... ..only five minutes were without any musical score at all. Lumiere's 'flames' required around 19,000 separate drawings... ...while the Ballroom was a photorealistic CGI computer model. The crystal chandelier shown at the start of the Ballroom sequence is also a 3D digital construct, containing 158 individual light sources to simulate candles. In its first 1...

While Glen Keane was deliberately kept from seeing Robby Benson during his work on Beast, Dave Pruiksma studied Angela Lansbury in order to create the character of Mrs Potts - although, apparently, he never actually met her. He was impressed by her subtle mannerisms, and incorporated many of them into the final character. While Mrs Potts is very much an interpretation of Angela Lansbury, her teacup-son emerged from the shadows thanks to Bradley Pierce, the boy who provided his voice. Jeffrey Katzenburg liked his performance so much that he insisted Chip's role (initially minor) was stren...

In 1992, Disney's animated film "Aladdin" opened to great critical acclaim and boffo box office biz (as they say in the industry). "Aladdin" has since become one of the most successful animated movies of all time. Success breeds success, so it should come as no surprise that Disney has opted to turn "Aladdin" into a Broadway-style musical. But, unlike the wildly popular "Beauty and the Beast" that become a favorite on the Great White Way, Disney has ignored Broadway in favor of a new locale: Disney's California Adventure. That's right. Disney's "Aladdin-a Musical Spectacula...

Mark Mancina is a Grammy Award-winning composer, who was assigned to write the bold scores in Disney's Tarzan. He has written scores for such motion pictures as Con Air, Twister, Money Train, Assassins, Bad Boys and Speed. Other Disney films include The Lion King, where he arranged, produced and provided vocal arrangements for several of the songs, and went on to compose the continueing album Rhythm of the Pride Lands. He's Grammy awards were for the excellent scores in The Lion King, both the animated film and the broadway musical stage version where he wrote additional songs and s...

Every bit as rambunctious as Simba, Nala is ready to go wherever he goes or do whatever he does. Best buddies, the twosome are taken aback when Zazu tells them they are to be married. What a yucky idea! But time changes things, and when they meet again, they realize their friendship has deepened into love. Nala's mother is Sarafina, one of the pride's lionesses and a friend of Sarabi; the question of who her father is remains one of the mysteries of The Lion King universe (though directors Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers have personally, though reluctantly, acknowledged that it must be...