Tale as old as time : the art and making of Beauty and the beast /

Features interviews with the artists, voice-over actors, and executives; transcripts of meetings and story sessions; and sketches, caricatures, sequences of animation drawings, and preliminary artwork from discarded scenes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solomon, Charles, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Disney Editions, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • True as it can be : the origins of the original story
  • Ever just the same : ever a surprise : Disney on the rebound after the 1984 change in management
  • Finding you can change : learning you were wrong : the initial version of the film
  • Both a little scared : neither one prepared : Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale become directors of a new interpretation
  • Tune as old as song : Howard Ashman and Alan Menken make the film a musical
  • True that he's no prince charming : creating the characters
  • There must be more than this provincial life : creating a world for the story
  • Bittersweet and strange : completing the film, and the death of Howard Ashman
  • Who'd have ever thought : that this could be? : Beauty and the Beast comes to the stage
  • Just a little change : small, to say the least : Beauty and the Beast in IMAX and in 3-D
  • With a dreamy far-off look : and her nose stuck in a book.