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Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

Documentary

From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.

Release Date: 2009, September 5
Directors: Don Hahn
Countries: United States of America
Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures
Cast: Cree Summer, John Hurt, Tom Hanks, James Earl Jones, Frank Welker, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jeremy Irons, Robert Guillaume, Cheech Marin, Pat Fraley

Overview:

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Keywords:

struggle for survival computer animation struggle for independence movie studio documentary filmmaking challenge for change economic struggle animation documentary innovation motion picture studio past failure digital innovation