Waking Sleeping Beauty
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| Directed by | Don Hahn |
| Produced by | Don Hahn Peter Schneider |
| Written by | Patrick Pacheco |
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Roy E. Disney Michael Eisner Jeffrey Katzenberg Randy Cartwright Howard Ashman |
| Narrated by | Don Hahn |
| Music by | Chris P. Bacon |
| Edited by | Ellen Keneshea Vartan Nazarian John Damien Ryan |
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Stone Circle Pictures
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $84,918 |
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.
Unusually 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, and played at film festivals across the country before its limited theatrical release on March 26, 2010 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
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 from the company 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.
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