Your favorite Disney animated movies have quite the stories behind them. These fun and interesting facts will make those movies even more entertaining.
1. When adjusted for inflation, Snow White still ranks as the top grossing animated film of all-time. Walt Disney mortgaged his house for the $1.5m budget, a huge amount in 1937.
2. All of Snow White’s blush was done by hand. For a more natural look, some ink and paint artists used their own rouge. When Walt Disney asked how they did it so well, they responded “What do you think we’ve been doing all our lives?”
3. Frozen won Disney its first Oscar since Tarzan. The scene where Elsa walks out on her ice palace’s balcony took 132 hours to complete 218 frames and was the film’s longest frame to animate.
4. The Princess and the Frog generated controversy from the start. Black-Americans objected to the lead character original name, ‘Maddy’. They claimed it to be a slave name. This was later changed to ‘Tiana’. Prince Naveen was also purposely created to be racially ambiguous and comes from the fictional country of ‘Maldonia’.
5. Destino came out in 2003, but it had its beginnings in 1945. It was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and surrealist painter, Salvador Dali.
6. Disney will release Big Hero 6 in 2014. It’s the first Marvel-owned story that Disney will animate and takes place in San Fransokyo, a combination of Tokyo and San Francisco.
7. Eleanor Audley was the voice for Malificent in Sleeping Beauty.
8. She also voiced Lady Tremaine in Cinderella.
9. Simba, the main character in The Lion King, translates to ‘Lion’ in Swahili.
10. Originally, the peddler who introduces the movie later on was revealed in the end to be the Genie. They had Robin Williams voice both. Take a look at the similarities in the animation of both, especially the eyebrows, beard and four-fingered hands. All other human characters have five fingers.
11. The animation of the beast in Beauty and the Beast was a combination of multiple animals. Glen Keane, a 30-year Disney animator included the mane of a lion, the beard and head shape of a buffalo, the tusks and nose bridge of a wild boar, the strongly-muscled brow ridge of a gorilla, the legs and tail of a wolf, and the big and bulky body of a bear.
12. In Beauty and the Beast, the stained glass window in the prologue has a Latin phrase reading ‘Vincit Qui Se Vincit’, which means ‘He conquers, who conquers himself’. This is a foreshadowing of the story arc to come.
13. In The Little Mermaid, Ursula’s personality and design came from an unlikely source for a Disney animation, a drag queen named Devine.
15. The Little Mermaid was the last Disney animated film to use the time-consuming process of hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work. 1,100 backgrounds featured 1,000 different colors and over one million drawings were done in all.
16. Glen Keane insisted on animating Ariel as he felt a connection to the character after hearing ‘Part of Your World’. He based Ariel on his wife, Linda. Later, his daughter Clare inspired his design of Rapunzel.
17. The last shot completed in The Little Mermaid was Ariel reaching up through the skylight of her grotto. It took four attempts to get the optical effects perfect.
The stories behind Disney movies are just as good as the movies. Share this post with Disney lovers everywhere.
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