MouseStation 399 – Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Second Golden Age of Disney Animation
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On today’s show, Steven Ng chats with Don Hahn and Peter Schneider about Waking Sleeping Beauty, their new documentary on the rebirth of Disney animation in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Feature: Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Second Golden Age of Disney Animation
Steven Ng chats with Don Hahn and Peter Schneider about Waking Sleeping Beauty, their new documentary on the rebirth of Disney animation in the 1980s and 1990s.
Schneider wanted to do this movie since before he left Disney in 2001, finally got together with Hahn about two years ago to make the film. He felt that nobody had really captured the good parts of what had been done there due to the contentiousness at the time.
Hahn’s idea was to use archival footage over new audio interviews to avoid talking heads and to put you into the rooms where things were happening. They wanted to avoid the feel of the bonus footage currently on DVDs. Lots of the old footage was shot on the Disney lot (sometimes illegally) by many of the animators.
Hahn and Schneider know that those who read all of the Web sites try to get all of the information available on every subject including behind the scenes gossip about the movies. This was their chance to provide what actually happened, as opposed to the gossip. This is Hahn and Schneider’s story, with all of the good and the bad.
They wanted to tell the story of the specific talented people who were responsible for artistic decisions. The new generation of animators were encouraged to take their own approach to animation rather than trying to recreate the early days of animation when the genre was first created, just as Scorsese, Lucas and Spielberg were reinventing live action filmmaking.
The big difference in the animation of that time, according to Hahn, is the emotional engagement with the characters. From 1984 to 1994, Disney had a monopoly on animation. After that time, other studios decided that they wanted in on the genre, and there was much more diversity in the type, style and quality of the movies available.
The film opens this weekend in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco and next Wednesday in Philadelphia, opening in more cities later. Catch it when it comes to your town!
Our thanks to Don Hahn and Peter Schneider for taking the time to chat with Steven.
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Mark still has not gotten the question posted on Twitter and Facebook last week, this time due to illness, so we’ll do a do-over this week. Next week’s question:
- How old were you the first time you went to a Disney theme park?
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