For more videos related to this film, check out our curated playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQnigF_xmZFZ11w3PIx8UpKBzli2Aydw Beauty and the Beast (84 min) Synopsis: Book-loving Belle longs for something more than her ordinary country life. After rejecting a marriage proposal from the vain Gaston, Belle discovers that her father, the eccentric inventor Maurice, is missing. She finds him imprisoned in an enchanted castle being held by a fearsome Beast living under an impossible spell – unless he can learn to love and be loved in return, he will forever remain a Beast. To save her father, Belle offers to take his place as the Beast’s prisoner. The castle’s enchanted staff – including the fussy clock, Cogsworth, the debonair candelabra, Lumiere, the motherly teapot, Mrs. Potts, and her son, Chip – invite Belle to “Be Out Guest” and gently encourage a romance between Belle and the Beast. As the relationship between the two unlikely friends grows, the castle staff wonder if there is “Something There” that wasn’t there before. But will the castle’s spell be broken before time runs out for “Beauty and the Beast”? Cast: Paige O’Hara (Belle), Robby Benson (Beast), Richard White (Gaston), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth/Narrator), Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts), Bradley Michael Pierce (Chip), Jesse Corti (LeFou), Rex Everhart (Maurice), Jo Ann Worley (Wardrobe) Songs: “Belle,” “Gaston,” “Be Our Guest,” “Something There,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Mob Song” Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. Initial release in New York on November 13, 1991; general release on November 22, 1991. US Theatrical Reissues: January 1, 2002 (IMAX); January 13, 2012 (3D); US Home Media Releases: October 30, 1992 (VHS); November 24, 1992 (WIP LD); September 29, 1993 (LD); October 8, 2002 (DVD/VHS); October 5, 2010 (BR); November 23, 2010 (DVD); October 4, 2011 (3DBR); September 20, 2016 (BR); February 28, 2017 (DVD); March 10, 2020 (4K) Trivia: • Frames: 120,960 • The film’s end credits version of “Beauty and the Beast” was performed by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. • Since lyricist Howard Ashman had died earlier in the year, the film was dedicated to him: “To our friend, Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful.” • Production of the film took 3½ years and required the talents of nearly 600 animators, artists, and technicians. • Portions of the film were animated at Disney’s satellite facility at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida. • Art directors working on the film travelled to the Loire valley in France for inspiration, and studied the great French romantic painters such as Fragonard and Boucher. • Glen Keane, the supervising animator on Beast, created his own hybrid beast by combining the mane of a lion, the beard and head structure of a buffalo, the tusks and nose bridge of a wild boar, the heavily muscled brow of a gorilla, the legs and tail of a wolf, and the big and bulky body of a bear. • Computer-generated imagery was used in several parts of the film, most notably in the “Be Our Guest” sequence and in the creation of a striking three-dimensional ballroom background, allowing dramatic camera moves on the animated characters as they danced. • Academy Award nominee in seven categories, including, for the first time for an animated feature, that of Best Picture, it won for Best Song (“Beauty and the Beast”) and Best Original Score. The Copyright Laws of the United States recognizes a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.” This video and the “Animation Compendia” YouTube channel in general may contain certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyrighted holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by federal law and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted above.