Tale as old as time
Subtitle: the art and making of Beauty and the Beast
By: Charles Solomon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Disney Editions
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781423124818
Subjects: Beauty and the beast (Motion picture : 1991)
Other titles: Beauty and the Beast
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: True as it can be :; title: the origins of the original story --; title: Ever just the same :; title: ever a surprise :; title: Disney on the rebound after the 1984 change in management --; title: Finding you can change :; title: learning you were wrong :; title: the initial version of the film --; title: Both a little scared :; title: neither one prepared :; title: Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale become directors of a new interpretation --; title: Tune as old as song :; title: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken make the film a musical --; title: True that he's no prince charming :; title: creating the characters --; title: There must be more than this provincial life :; title: creating a world for the story --; title: Bittersweet and strange :; title: completing the film, and the death of Howard Ashman --; title: Who'd have ever thought :; title: that this could be? :; title: Beauty and the Beast comes to the stage --; title: Just a little change :; title: small, to say the least :; title: Beauty and the Beast in IMAX and in 3-D --; title: With a dreamy far-off look :; title: and her nose stuck in a book.