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All of Walt Disney World literally sparkles with magic and whimsy, but the Disney Magic Kingdom is certainly the most special part of the Disney World complex. While many refer to the entire Disney resort as the Magic Kingdom, indeed, there is one special park that bears the name. The Disney Magic Kingdom was the very first park to open at the Orlando, Florida resort. Modeled after the original Disneyland Park, which opened in Anaheim, California in 1955, Florida's Disney Magic Kingdom arrived in 1971 boasting new and better attractions, a larger castle, and much, much more. When the pa...

Tinkerbell was the jealous pixie/fairy who glowed brightest for Peter Pan. Her voice sang like a tinkling bell and a sprinkle of her pixie dust could make you fly. Tinkerbell is traditionally staged as a flying point of light beamed from offstage. She was called Tinker Bell because she mended the pots and kettles, a tinker is a tin worker, and with her magic wand led Peter Pan through the ins and outs of Never Never Land reminding us of a time in everyone's childhood when danger and adventure lured us into the possibilities of the imagination to believe in Fairies, to this day she is one o...

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...

Beast is, in my opinion, one of the very finest pieces of Disney character animation. A complex and interesting character, he was bought into being by Glen Keane, a Supervising Animator who has since worked on the characters of Aladdin and Pocahontas, and is currently scheduled to do lead animation for the forthcoming Tarzan. So why do I reckon that Beast is such a great example of Keane's work? Well, great animation is largely about emotion - evoking and building that emotional response in an audience. When you see a piece of animation for the first time, you have no earlier referen...

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...

Lumiere's name, in French, means light - perfectly appropriate! The Lumiere-Cogsworth partnership (!?) provides many great sequences. Ranieri faced many of the same challenges as Finn and Pruiksma in animating a candelabrum, but pulled it off spectacularly - Lumiere is the perfect foil to the pompous Cogsworth; and the two are essential to the humour and charm of the film. Lumiere is another character for whom the model sheets make fascinating reading. There are numerous directions to the animators and clean-up personnel regarding the range of movements allowed, how to draw certain a...

A self-confessed love of the 'British deadpan character' (hehheh), Finn was perfectly suited to Cogsworth, as was David Ogden-Stiers, who provided the supercilious character with the ideal voice. As with all the 'enchanted objects', it was a problem to make the animation look natural - as if the characters really could move in the way they did. (One trick I'm glad they didn't use was 'Hell, we can't draw that. Just make 'em fly or something.') The model sheets in The Art of Animation show how the anatomies of all the objects were carefully analysed and...

The self-styled 'ideal man' for Belle underwent some changes during Deja's development of him. Early loutish charicatures went (along with a dubious moustache) and in came a smoother, more handsome village braggart. Apparently research for the Gaston physique (and the attitude too, perhaps) came from visits to an LA gym - where real-life counterparts of the character worked out... Deja sums up Gaston: 'God, I know such people; Los Angeles is full of them.' After joining Disney in 1980, Deja was one of the team who worked on The Black Cauldron. Later credits include...

Belle, the go-it-alone, independent heroine and salvation of Beast was animated by James Baxter. Receiving a series of 'battlefield promotions' during production on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and later on Beauty and the Beast, this moved Baxter into the animation of a major character. Belle's appearance was developed from a sketch by story man Roger Allers, slightly modified to give her 'a more European look' - the shape and angle of her eyes, in particular, were intended to give her a more mature appearance than earlier heroines. Inspiration for angle and perspective - cruc...

Glen Keane was the supervising animator of Beast. In the early concept art, Beast was mandrill-inspired, later developing to incorporate elements of the bear and wolf, but with most of the inspiration drawn from the buffalo. Only his horns were, as Keane says, '..just something we gave him ourselves.' Determined to go to considerable lengths to find inspiration for his character, Keane asked to be allowed into a zoo cage with a temperamental gorilla, in order to get a feeling for what is was like to be so close to the huge beast. Fortunately, he was denied the opportunity... Of a...

Beast (Adam) is a fictional character and main hero in the 1991 version of Beauty and the Beast. He is voiced by Robby Benson. The Beast is of an unidentifiable species (known by fans as a Man-Lion), but the designer distinguished that he used a mixture of gorilla, lion, wolf, bear, wild boar and the most relevant appearance, buffalo, for the appearance of the beast. When he is first introduced, the Beast exhibits a personality equivalent of a spoiled child. He is often seen to be rude, impatient, and very easily loses his temper. As time passes, and he shows particular interest in Belle, h...

Featuring the voices of: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Bradley Michael Pierce, Rex Everhart Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise Producer: Don Hahn Screenplay: Linda Woolverton Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman U.S. Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney's 1991 instant classic, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, is not only the finest animated movie ever made, but deserves a prominent position on any list of all-time greats. Although not the highest grossing Disney production, nor the best-remembered by...

Once upon a time . . . as a merchant set off for market, he asked each of his three daughters what she would like as a present on his return. The first daughter wanted a brocade dress, the second a pearl necklace, but the third, whose name was Beauty, the youngest, prettiest and sweetest of them all, said to her father: "All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me!" When the merchant had finished his business, he set off for home. However, a sudden storm blew up, and his horse could hardly make headway in the howling gale. Cold and weary, the merchant had lost all hope of...

[Gaston:] The Beast will make off with your children. [Mob:] {gasp} [Gaston:] He'll come after them in the night. [Belle:] No! [Gaston:] We're not safe till his head is mounted on my wall! I say we kill the Beast! [Mob:] Kill him! [Man I:] We're not safe until he's dead [Man II:] He'll come stalking us at night [Woman:] Set to sacrifice our children to his monstrous appetite [Man III:] He'll wreak havoc on our village if we let him wander free [Gaston:] So it's tim...

[Maurice:] Help! Someone help me! [Tavern keeper:] Maurice? [Maurice:] Please! Please, I need your help. He's got her - he's got her locked in the dungeon! [LeFou:] Who? [Maurice:] Belle. We must go. N-not a minute to lose! [Gaston:] Whoa! Slow down, Maurice. Who's got Belle locked in a dungeon? [Maurice:] A beast! A horrible, monstrous beast! [Patron I:] Is it a big beast? [Maurice:] Huge! [Patron II:] With a long, ugly snout? [Maurice:] Hideously ugly! [Drinker III:] And sharp, cruel f...

[Gaston:] Who does she think she is? That girl has tangled with the wrong man! No one says "no" to Gaston! [LeFou:] Heh heh. Darn right. [Gaston:] Dismissed! Rejected! Publicly Humiliated! Why, it's more than I can bear. [LeFou:] More beer? [Gaston:] What for? Nothing helps. I'm disgraced. [LeFou:] Who, you? Never! Gaston, you've got to pull yourself together. Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Gaston Looking so down in the dumps Every guy...

[Belle:] Is he gone? Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him. Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless . . . "Madame Gaston!" Can't you just see it? "Madame Gaston!" His "little wife" No sir! Not me! I guarantee it I want much more than this provincial life I want adventure in the great wide somewhere I want it more than I can tell And for once it might be grand To have someone...

[Belle:] Little town It's a quiet village Ev'ry day Like the one before Little town Full of little people Waking up to say: [Townsfolk:] Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! [Belle:] There goes the baker with his tray, like always The same old bread and rolls to sell Ev'ry morning just the same Since the morning that we came To this poor provincial to...

Cinderella, Cinderella All I hear is Cinderella, from the moment I get up till shades of night are falling There isn't any letup, I hear them calling, calling "Go up and do the attic and go down and do the cellar, you can do them both together Cinderella." How lovely it would be if I could live in my fantasy But in the middle of my dreaming they're screaming at me Cinderella