Once Upon a Studio

***Once Upon a Studio*** is an 2023 American live-action/animation short special film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

Created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, *Once Upon a Studio* combines live-action, traditional, and CGI animation. The film has been described as a "love letter" to the company's flagship animation studio, as well as "a thank you to anyone in the audience that's ever connected with a film over the last hundred years". Several key animators and voice talent returned to the studio to recreate their respective characters accurately.

Characters appear from all sixty-two feature films, numerous short films, and some live-action Disney films featuring animation produced by the studio, such as *The Reluctant Dragon* (1941), *Mary Poppins* (1964), *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* (1971) and *Pete's Dragon* (1977), with the following exceptions being *Song of the South* (1946), *So Dear to My Heart* (1948), and *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988).

The film was dedicated to Burny Mattinson, the company's longest-serving Disney employee, who appeared in the short and passed away eight months before its release.

The film premiered on June 11, 2023 at the Annecy Film Festival to rave reviews. Subsequent releases include a theatrical release on October 13, 2023, alongside the Disney 100 limited engagement re-release of *Moana* and its broadcast debut on October 15, 2023 as part of *The Wonderful World of Disney: Disney's 100th Anniversary Celebration* on ABC. The short streamed on October 16, 2023 on Disney+ and Hulu. The short premiered on the same day as part of *Once Upon A Monday Movie Marathon* on Disney Channel, as well as on Disney Junior, FX, FXX, FXM, and Freeform. The short was uploaded on Walt Disney Animation Studios' YouTube channel on December 24, 2023, and it was also released in theaters in front of *Wish* re-release on March 1, 2024 for a limited-time sing-along edition. The short will appear as a bonus feature on the DVD & Blu-ray release of *Wish* on March 12, 2024.

## Plot

The employees of Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California are leaving as their workday is done. An intern converses with Burny Mattinson about the studio turning 100, with Mattinson wishing the walls could talk.

Inside the studio, Mickey Mouse, as seen in a production cel from *Mickey's Birthday Party*, comes to life, and calls Tinker Bell (*Peter Pan*). Mickey asks her if all of the employees are gone, in which she nods. Excited, Mickey and Minnie Mouse jump out of the cel, and Minnie gets many of the characters from the studio's filmography to all meet in the lobby. While everyone is getting ready, Mickey approaches a photograph of studio co-founder Walt Disney and, in a private moment, bittersweetly thanks him.

Everyone goes outside to the lobby to take a group photo for the 100th anniversary with Mickey getting them together. However, Goofy accidentally falls off his ladder, causing the camera to break. Everyone starts to leave in disappointment. Just then, Alan-a-Dale (*Robin Hood*) plays "When You Wish Upon a Star" on his lute joined in by Scat Cat (*The Aristocats*) on his trumpet and Mirabel Madrigal (*Encanto*) on her accordion as Hathi Jr. (*The Jungle Book*) makes a trumpeting sound. Then other characters take turns singing. The brooms from *Fantasia* sweep up Goofy's camera, Fix-It Felix, Jr. (*Wreck-It Ralph*) fixes the camera, Hercules puts the ladder back in position, and the Fairy Godmother (*Cinderella*) uses her magic to help Goofy up the ladder while setting the camera up for the photo. As Snow White, Mulan, Asha (*Wish*), Winnie the Pooh, Jiminy Cricket (*Pinocchio*), and the rest of the characters finish up the song and pose for the group photo, Tinker Bell then uses her wand to magically create it. At last, Chicken Little arrived on Stage wishing the viewers Happy 100th Anniversary.

## Cast

#### Live-action actors

* Burny Mattinson as himself
* Renika Williams as Disney Intern
* Dan Abraham and Trent Correy as themselves

#### Animated actors

* Scott Adsit as Baymax
* Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
* Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde
* Kristen Bell as Anna
* Jodi Benson as Ariel
* Robby Benson as Beast
* Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Antonio Madrigal
* Griffen Campbell as Pinocchio
* Auli'i Cravalho as Moana
* Jim Cummings as Baloo and Winnie the Pooh
* Ariana DeBose as Asha
* Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse
* Richard Epcar as Little John
* Bill Farmer as Goofy and Pluto
* Keith Ferguson as Prince Charming
* Josh Gad as Olaf
* Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps
* Jonathan Groff as Kristoff
* Jennifer Hale as Cinderella
* Jess Harnell as Scuttle
* Tom Hulce as Quasimodo
* Jeremy Irons as Scar
* Dwayne Johnson as Maui
* Judy Kuhn as Pocahontas
* Nathan Lane as Timon
* Luke Lowe as Flounder
* Idina Menzel as Elsa
* Jim Meskimen as Eeyore and Merlin
* Piotr Michael as Iago
* Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
* Paige O'Hara as Belle
* Raymond S. Persi as Flash Slothmore
* Ian R'Mante as Thumper
* John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph
* Phoenix Reisser as Mowgli
* Kaitlyn Robrock as Minnie Mouse
* Anika Noni Rose as Tiana
* Lea Salonga as Mulan
* Lee Slobotkin as Peter Pan
* Natalie Babbitt Taylor as Snow White
* Josh Robert Thompson as Grumpy
* Kelly Marie Tran as Raya
* Alan Tudyk as the Mad Hatter
* Scott Weinger as Aladdin
* Richard White as Gaston LeGume
* Harland Williams as Carl
* Daniel Wolfe as Robin Hood
* James Woods as Hades

#### Archival Recording

* Stan Alexander as Flower
* Stephen J. Anderson as Bowler Hat Guy
* Awkwafina as Sisu
* Bill Baucom as Trusty
* Peter Behn as Thumper
* Eric Blore as Mr. Toad
* Charlie Callas as Elliott
* Pat Carroll as Ursula
* Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan
* Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket
* Verna Felton as Flora
* Santino Fontana as Hans
* Michael J. Fox as Milo Thatch
* Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins
* Robert Guillaume as Rafiki
* Phil Harris as Thomas O'Malley
* Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Kaa, and Winnie the Pooh
* Billy Joel as Dodger
* Charles Judels as Stromboli
* Barbara Luddy as Merryweather, Lady, Kanga
* Jimmy MacDonald as Jaq and Gus
* Bob Newhart as Bernard
* Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
* Adam Ryen as Cody
* Chris Sanders as Stitch
* Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz
* David Spade as Kuzco
* Mark Walton as Rhino
* Frank Welker as Abu and Joanna the Goanna
* Robin Williams as the Genie
* Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis
* Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck

#### Additional Voices (uncredited)

* Carlos Alazraqui
* Kimberly Bailey
* Bob Bergen
* Corey Burton
* Hélène Cardona
* Jennifer Cody
* David Cowgill
* Debi Derryberry
* Terri Douglas
* Jessica DiCicco
* Bill Farmer
* Eric Goldberg
* Jackie Gonneau
* Jennifer Hale
* Kate Higgins
* Jennie Kwan
* Linda Larkin
* Mona Marshall
* Scott Menville
* Cristina Milizia
* Max Mittelman
* Marcella Lentz-Pope
* Kaiji Tang
* Lynwood Robinson
* Sarah-Nicole Robles
* Lisa Linder Silver
* Kath Soucie
* Hynden Walch
* Frank Welker
* Dean Wellins
* Mae Whitman

## Songs

* ”You Can Fly”
* "Gaston"
* "Friend Like Me"
* "Night on Bald Mountain"
* ”So This Is Love”
* "Trust in Me"
* "Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)"
* "When You Wish Upon a Star"
* "Steamboat Bill"

## Trivia

* The title is a reference to the literary stock phrase, "Once upon a time..." which itself has been featured in many of fairytales.
* This short was made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
	+ This short is set to feature almost 543 characters from across every film in the Disney Animated Canon.
	+ **Notes**: This short film was pays tribute to every Walt Disney Animation Studios films, along every shorts and every live-action and animated films, including *Pete's Dragon*, *Mary Poppins* and *The Reluctant Dragon*.
* The film ends with Mickey and all the cartoon characters singing the synth-pop rendition of "*When You Wish Upon a Star*", as the Disney employees watching them, plus Chicken Little wishes them Happy 100th Anniversary.
* Directors Trent Correy and Dan Abraham make cameo appearances among the artists leaving work for the day. They're the ones holding the door open for Burny Mattinson.
* According to Josh Gad, Genie's dialogue will be sourced from previously unused audio recorded by the late Robin Williams.
* For a scene where Mickey looks at a portrait of Walt Disney, a piano section of "Feed the Birds", said to have been his favorite song, can be heard. It was played by Richard M. Sherman on the very same piano in Walt's office that he'd play the song for him on Friday afternoons.
* The short film was originally meant to be theatrically released with *Wish*, but that plan was ultimately cancelled following its public broadcast on ABC, its worldwide streaming on Disney+ and the fact it was instead theatrically screened with the Disney100 theatrical re-release of *Moana*, leaving *Wish* to be theatrically screened by itself. However, the short film was theatrically released alongside with the aforementioned *Wish* in Japan on December 15 in a special dubbed version, due to Japanese dubbing for the short being complete, and it was released in front of *Wish* re-release on March 1, 2024 for a limited-time sing-along edition, and will be included as a bonus feature on the movie's upcoming DVD & Blu-ray release.
* There were some scenes cut that were storyboarded for the short, including Captain Hook being chased down stairs by Tuk Tuk in homage to a classic scene from *Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and Yzma giving a wink to Hercules, which makes him squirm. Genie was also supposed to take selfies with many of the characters, with one shot showing him getting a pic together with Pinocchio, Cheshire Cat, Tramp, Little John, Gurgi, Tarzan, and Rapunzel.
* Some characters were originally going to appear in the short, such as Willie the Giant, but he didn’t appear, probably due to his size.

## Gallery

Official logo.Nick Wilde, Judy Hopps, Tiana, Pinocchio and Louis interacting with each other.Moana with FlounderPluto interacting with Jaq and GusDisney CharactersIn a deleted scene of Once Upon a Studio, Genie and his new friends, Tramp, Tarzan, Rapunzel, Gurgi, Little John, Pinocchio, and Cheshire Cat take a group selfie.In this deleted scene of Once Upon a Studio, Captain Hook is about to be chased down the stairs and attacked by Tuk Tuk.Tuk Tuk from *Raya and the Last Dragon* lands on Captain Hook from *Peter Pan*.Yzma giving a Wink to Hercules.Hercules talking to Geppetto.
## Videos

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