Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the
Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Upon seeing the initial storyboard reels in 1989, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered that the film be scrapped and started over from scratch.
A frame from the "Beauty and the Beast" ballroom dance sequence. The background was animated using computer generated imagery which, when the traditionally animated characters are composited against it using Pixar's CAPS system, gives the illusion of a dollying film camera.
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"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins.
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
…animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, the film stars Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury…
Beauty releases the prince from his beastly curse. Artwork from Europa's Fairy Book, by John Batten.
Illustration by Warwick Goble.
A Serbian translation from 1787, published in the old Slavonic-Serbian literary language, translated by Avram Mrazović.
Painting of Petrus Gonsalvus (c. 1580).