March Break is over!
Now it's back the "clam factory" as my dad would say.
How was your March Break? Anyone go to Disneyland or DisneyWorld? Let me know how it went!
Anyways, on to the facts!
This fact page features the usual Disney facts, but also explains some Disney films you may have not heard of before.
Fact #2851
Merida, Ariel, and Anna are the only princesses to have blood siblings. Ariel is the youngest of seven sisters, Merida the elder sister to the triplets, and Anna has Elsa. Elsa does not count as a princess with siblings since she is in fact a queen.
Fact #2852
The Imagineering division of the Walt Disney Corporation includes masses of different disciplines from show writers, architects, engineers, graphic designers, light designers, artists, and a lot more than I can even think of right now.
Fact #2853
While filming The Princess Diaries in 2001, Garry Marshall, the movie's director, was living the same house that Julie Andrews was living in while she was filming Mary Poppins around 40 years earlier.
Fact #2854
When Walt Disney was doing storyboards for the Ave Maria section of Fantasia (1940) and one of the story people said, 'You know, I don't think we're using the cartoon medium as we should be.' Walt immediately turned on the guy and said, 'This is not the cartoon medium, we shouldn't only be thinking of this as a cartoon, we have worlds to conquer here.'"
Fact #2855
Hercules animators wore out 72,000 pencils and used 1 million sheets of animation paper.
Fact #2856
It took 4 years and 600 animators from both the California and Orlando Disney Animation Studios to create The Lion King.
Fact #2857
Released in 1990, 'DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp' is one of the earlier unknown Disney films. Scrooge McDuck and his nephew make their way to Egypt in search of a magic lamp.
Fact #2858
In the 1999 film, 'Doug's 1st Movie', Doug and his best friend Skeeter set out to find the monster of Lucky Duck. Anyone know if this was Doug's last movie?
Fact #2859
Released in 1995, 'Gargoyles the Movie: Our Heroes Awaken' follows the gargoyles as they seek to conquer their enemies and the humans who have repressed them.
Fact #2860
Another one of Pooh's loveable adventures, released in 1997 but never reaching a wide audience, Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, follows Pooh as he goes in search of Christopher Robin who has left to attend his first day at school.
Fact #2861
There is a sequel to Beauty & The Beast called "Belle's Magical World."
Fact #2862
In 1999, 'Belle's Tales of Friendship' was released starring Belle from Beauty and the Beast, however to this day it remains largely unknown! It is believed that the movie is a collection of episodes from the animated series.
Fact #2863
In the year 2000, Buzz Lightyear starred in his very own spin-off of the Toy Story saga. In this film, Buzz must conquer Emperor Zurg with the help of three of his most adoring fans.
Fact #2864
Ponyo is the first animated feature film since Princess Mononoke to be created and painted on traditional animation cells.
Fact #2865
Hayao Miyazaki was very surprised by the lukewarm reaction of children to Ponyo in test screenings.
Fact #2866
Hayao Miyazaki stated at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con that he was inspired to create Ponyo after watching Disney's animated adaptation The Little Mermaid.
Fact #2867
The opening 12 seconds of Ponyo, involving vast schools of fish and undersea creatures, required 1613 pages of conceptual sketches to develop.
Fact #2868
Hayao Miyazaki drew most of the sea and wave imagery in Ponyo himself, experimenting with making it as expressionistic as possible. John Lasseter said that he had never seen water animated so beautifully before.
Fact #2869
The Emperor's New Groove was originally going to be a serious and dramatic movie, with a similar story to The Prince and The Pauper.
Fact #2870
The Little Mermaid was the last movie to be filmed on a multiplane camera.
Fact #2871
The song "It's A Small World" is the only Disney creation to not be copyrighted.
Fact #2872
The mischievous young puppy at the end of the film Lady & The Tramp is called "Scamp". He was featured in a children's book, a syndicated daily comic strip, and comic books, before starring in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure.
Fact #2873
The song howled by the dogs in the pound in Lady & The Tramp is "Home Sweet Home". It is the only song to be in the film that was not written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke.
Fact #2874
The Beaver character in Lady & The Tramp was effectively recycled as the Gopher in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, right down to his whistling speech pattern. This voice was originally created by Stan Freberg who had a background in comedy voices. The demands of voicing the character proved too much, however, so Freberg eventually resorted to using a real whistle to capture the whistling effect.
Fact #2875
Walt Disney read Ward Greene's story, "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1943 and eventually hired Greene to include the Dan character in the film during the pre-production stage. But Greene wrote and published an entirely new story "Lady and the Tramp; the Story of Two Dogs," which became the source of the film.
Fact #2876
The Lady & The Tramp film's setting was partly inspired by Walt Disney's boyhood hometown of Marceline, Missouri.
Fact #2877
Peggy Lee helped promote the film on the Disney TV series, explaining her work with the score and singing a few numbers. Hiring Peggy Lee arguably was the first instance of a superstar voice being used for an animated film.
Fact #2878
"Darling's" real name is never used, even her friends call her "darling" at the baby shower. It is unclear if that's her name or an endearment.
Fact #2879
Before animating the fight between Tramp and the rat, animator Wolfgang Reitherman kept rats in a cage next to his desk to study their actions.
Fact #2880
The signature "Tarzan yell" is provided by Brian Blessed, the voice of the film's villain.
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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!
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