Underplayed Gems

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)

Waking Sleeping Beauty poster
Directed by
Don Hahn
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 113 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This documentary tells the story of the Disney animation studio's revival from 1984 to 1994. It uses only archival footage, home videos, and press material to show the creative rise known as the Disney Renaissance without new interviews.

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What happens

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. The film 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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