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Music by | Harvey Cohen |
Cinematography | Ninky Smedley |
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February 17, 1998 |
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70 min. (original release) 92 min. (special edition) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Belle's Magical World (also known as Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World) is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, and released by Walt Disney Home Video) on February 17, 1998. The film is a followup to the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Beauty and the Beast, features the voices of David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Robby Benson as The Beast, Gregory Grudt, who replaced Bradley Michael Pearce as Chip Potts, Paige O'Hara as Belle, Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere. The film features two songs performed by Belle, "Listen With Our Hearts" and "A Little Thought." This storyline is set within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast (after Christmas but before the fight against Gaston).
When first released in 1998, this film consisted of three connected segments: "The Perfect Word," "Fifi's Folly," and "The Broken Wing." For the special edition released in 2003 another segment was included, "Mrs. Potts's Party" (from Belle's Tales of Friendship), making the film 22 minutes longer.