Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10035630.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Don Hahn's Waking Sleeping Beauty to Show at the Toronto Film Festival</b></a> <p>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. The conditions produced a series of box office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didnt care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. Its the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and more over a ten-year period.</p>
Originally Posted By basil fan I love Don Hahn, but my one fear would be that the presentation disses a decade of films I love, just because they weren't the smash hits that the '89er films were. Disney Villains <a href="http://www.whatistsgalore.com/disney/villain.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatistsgalore.com/...ain.html</a>
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan This film was just shown that the El Capitan last week with many of the animators and directors of the features from that era present. While it exposed some of the problems that the animators faced, it provided an insight into their attitudes and what they had to deal with in producing the features they were involved with. A real mixture of humor and angst.
