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''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Disney film producer Don Hahn and produced by Hahn and former Disney executive Peter Schneider. The film documents the history of Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1984 to 1994, covering the rise of a period referred to as the Disney Renaissance. Unusual for a documentary film, ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' uses no new on-camera interviews, instead relying primarily on archival interviews, press kit footage, in-progress and completed footage from the films being covered, and personal film/videos shot (often against company policy) by the employees of the animation studio. ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' debuted at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival,〔Sciretta, Peter (2009-09-06). (Movie Review: Waking Sleeping Beauty ). ''/Film''. Retrieved 2010-12-02.〕 and played at film festivals across the country before its limited theatrical release on March 26, 2010 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.〔(2010-03-04). ('Waking Sleeping Beauty' Gets Limited Theatrical Release, 3/26 ). ''BroadWayWorld.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-02.〕 ==Synopsis== The documentary is narrated by animator and film producer Don Hahn, with numerous audio interviews from company animators and executives. The documentary begins in the early 1980s, when The Walt Disney Company was directed by Walt Disney’s son-in-law Ron W. Miller. Many new animators had joined the company after graduating from CalArts, but were hired in a time where animation was considered a dying art. Roy E. Disney, Walt’s nephew resigned form the company in 1984 during a corporate takeover by Saul Steinberg, leading to Miller’s ousting. Roy returned to the studio as vice-chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the animation department. Roy employed Michael Eisner and Frank Wells as the new Chairman and President respectively. Eisner hired Jeffrey Katzenberg as head of the film division, but he proved to be a controversial figure, moving the animation department to an off-site building in Glendale, California. Roy hired Peter Schneider to be President of Walt Disney Feature Animation, who helped modernise the animation process. Losing in the box office to animated films released by Don Bluth, a former studio animator who left in 1979 to found his own company, Disney began producing animated films to release one every year, and began releasing classic films on the new home video format. A gong show in the company led to the green-lighting of numerous film projects. The production of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', though expensive for Disney, proved to be a huge financial success along with ''Oliver & Company''. The Disney Renaissance, which lasted from 1989 to 1999, began with ''The Little Mermaid''. The soundtrack was composed and wrote by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who also composed ''Beauty and the Beast'', and Menken later composing ''Aladdin''. Ashman’s involvement in ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Beauty and the Beast'' aided in both being box office successes and winning Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. However, Ashman passed away from AIDS in 1990 before ''Beauty and the Beast'' was released, the film dedicated to his memory. ''The Rescuers Down Under'' utilised the new CAPS system which blended traditional and computer animation together, but the film was a box office disappointment. Following the success of ''Beauty and the Beast'', Eisner and Roy announced to the animators that they would receive a new animation building as a reward for their hard work, but Katzenberg was unaware of this. In 1994, ''The Lion King'' was released and was another box office success for Disney. On April 4th, 1994, Frank Wells died in a helicopter crash. Following Wells’ death, Katzenberg expected to become the new company President, but was denied the position by Eisner, eventually leading to his resignation and went on to co-found DreamWorks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waking Sleeping Beauty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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