By the Book: The 30th Anniversary of “Beauty and the Beast”
Hard to believe, but this month marks the 30th anniversary of an animated feature that has inspired generations of filmmakers and enchanted generations of audiences.
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Animation Anecdotes #389
“The colors are rich, the music is rich, the story is good and it was the first major work about Halloween which is one of the more popular holidays.”
Animation Anecdotes #384
Larz Bourne was a writer and cartoonist. He was the one who came up with the name Deputy Dawg as well as the design for the character.
Animation Anecdotes #382
Screenwriter Linda Woolverton said, “Adults will have something to chew on in Beauty and the Beast. That’s why animated films are so interesting to make.
Animation Anecdotes #370
Gary K. Wolf told a reporter that he sold the movie rights to Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit, the sequel novel to his previous book, to Walt Disney Studios.
Animation Anecdotes #365
“Everybody in the world knows Porky has a stutter,” said Ira Zimmerman of the National Stuttering Project in 1991. “But it is inappropriate to depict stuttering in print.”
Animation Anecdotes #363
Since Bugs Bunny rose to stardom he has chomped his way through thousands of carrots in 160 films. Consumption of carrots in the United States shot up in the first few years he appeared.
Animation Anecdotes #349
Paige O’Hara who voiced Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast said, “Some people think I look a lot like her, and some don’t think I do at all.”
Animation Anecdotes #325
Why So Many Mice in Animation? “It’s a terrible thing to say, but mice are easy to draw,” says animator Bob Kurtz.
Animation Anecdotes #319
Actress Liz Taylor supplied the voice for Maggie Simpson’s first word in The Simpsons episode “Lisa’s First Word” in December 1992.
