Waking Sleeping Beauty
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
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. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
- Year: 2009
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures
- Keyword: computer animation, struggle for survival, documentary filmmaking, innovation, challenge for change, motion picture studio, movie studio, struggle for independence, animation documentary, economic struggle, past failure, digital innovation
- Director: Don Hahn
- Cast: Don Hahn, Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Peter Schneider, Rob Minkoff
