Waking Sleeping Beauty
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
- Documentary
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
- documentary filmmaking
- movie studio
- struggle for independence
- motion picture studio
- animation documentary
- challenge for change
- innovation
- digital innovation
- economic struggle
- sleeping beauty
- past failure
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 5, 2009
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Don Hahn,Roy Edward Disney,Michael Eisner,Jeffrey Katzenberg,Peter Schneider,Rob Minkoff,Glen Keane,Ron Clements,John Musker,Mike Gabrieland 158 more
- Director
- Don Hahn
- Writer
- Patrick Pacheco
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $84,918
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1159961