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golden age that would begat Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998) and Tarzan (1999). A number of these films were adapted as Broadway musical productions with great success.
In each of these films the animators pushed the envelope and developed new techniques, such as the deep canvas approach that gave Tarzan its unique depth, an appropriate advancement for the studio that had originally developed the groundbreaking multiplane camera that (starting with the Academy Award-winning short The Old Mill ) raised audience expectations ever-after for how deep and rich animated landscapes could be.
The 1990’s found me plugged into Disney media again, not merely because the animated features were once again brilliantly entertaining and worth the ticket price, but because I was spending so much time with my toddler nephew. He was an avid fan of Disney fare like Fantasia , Aladdin , and Tim Burton ’s Nightmare Before Christmas . With videos and VCRs finally affordable and ubiquitous, my nephew was able to watch his favorite Disney films over and over again on videocassette to his heart’s content.
In the new millennium, I had vicarious brushes with the Disney Company . My sister-in-law began a career at Disney in the legal and later the licensing departments. My sister worked for a couple of seasons at Disney ’s beautiful old El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood (and can still recite almost every line of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which she saw multiple times every day for weeks). She experienced first-hand Disney ’s stringent expectations of safety , courtesy , show , and efficiency at all of its entertainment venues. El Capitan workers are held to high standards, tasked with providing theater-goers with a flawless cinema experience.
The new millennium brought me a baby niece, and , wonderful timing for her, saw a revival of the canonical Disney Princesses ( Aurora , Cinderella , Snow White , etc.) and the birth of a modern princess phenomenon, as Disney told updated Cinderella stories best exemplified in the first decade of the new millennium by the Princess Diaries series (the films that launched actress Anne Hathaway ’s career; before she “dreamed a dream” as the tragic Fantine in “Les Miserables,” she ruled Genovia ).
For boys not captivated by all of those princess movies and merchandise, there was an out-of-left-field revival of the thrilling pirate movie genre, launched by Disney ’s 2003 live-action Pirates of the Caribbean and continued in the 2006, 2007 and 2011 chapters of the series. (Good news for Pirates fans: In January 2013, Disney announced that Pirates 5 , starring Johnny Depp , will be released in July 2015.)
For both boys and girls (and their elders) there were increasingly imaginative Disney-Pixar films to enjoy. Taking computer-generated story telling to a virtuoso level, Disney-Pixar ’s success began with Toy Story in 1995, but truly became a household brand known for excellence with the 1999 release of Toy Story 2 . Our family saw Toy Story 2 at the El Capitan . My niece, then an infant, cried and slept through some of the picture, but the rest of us were riveted.
S ubsequent Disney-Pixar triumphs included Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Brave (2012), and Monsters University (2013). As with all Disney successes, the Disney-Pixar films are winners because they combine dazzling new technology with warm, human stories.
The new millennium also saw Disney ’s television arm, the Disney Channel , hit its stride. By the middle of the decade, Disney had ushered in a new golden age of children’s television, with its pre-school programming, its pandemonium-inducing Disney Channel original movies, and an array of delightful new animated
In each of these films the animators pushed the envelope and developed new techniques, such as the deep canvas approach that gave Tarzan its unique depth, an appropriate advancement for the studio that had originally developed the groundbreaking multiplane camera that (starting with the Academy Award-winning short The Old Mill ) raised audience expectations ever-after for how deep and rich animated landscapes could be.
The 1990’s found me plugged into Disney media again, not merely because the animated features were once again brilliantly entertaining and worth the ticket price, but because I was spending so much time with my toddler nephew. He was an avid fan of Disney fare like Fantasia , Aladdin , and Tim Burton ’s Nightmare Before Christmas . With videos and VCRs finally affordable and ubiquitous, my nephew was able to watch his favorite Disney films over and over again on videocassette to his heart’s content.
In the new millennium, I had vicarious brushes with the Disney Company . My sister-in-law began a career at Disney in the legal and later the licensing departments. My sister worked for a couple of seasons at Disney ’s beautiful old El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood (and can still recite almost every line of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which she saw multiple times every day for weeks). She experienced first-hand Disney ’s stringent expectations of safety , courtesy , show , and efficiency at all of its entertainment venues. El Capitan workers are held to high standards, tasked with providing theater-goers with a flawless cinema experience.
The new millennium brought me a baby niece, and , wonderful timing for her, saw a revival of the canonical Disney Princesses ( Aurora , Cinderella , Snow White , etc.) and the birth of a modern princess phenomenon, as Disney told updated Cinderella stories best exemplified in the first decade of the new millennium by the Princess Diaries series (the films that launched actress Anne Hathaway ’s career; before she “dreamed a dream” as the tragic Fantine in “Les Miserables,” she ruled Genovia ).
For boys not captivated by all of those princess movies and merchandise, there was an out-of-left-field revival of the thrilling pirate movie genre, launched by Disney ’s 2003 live-action Pirates of the Caribbean and continued in the 2006, 2007 and 2011 chapters of the series. (Good news for Pirates fans: In January 2013, Disney announced that Pirates 5 , starring Johnny Depp , will be released in July 2015.)
For both boys and girls (and their elders) there were increasingly imaginative Disney-Pixar films to enjoy. Taking computer-generated story telling to a virtuoso level, Disney-Pixar ’s success began with Toy Story in 1995, but truly became a household brand known for excellence with the 1999 release of Toy Story 2 . Our family saw Toy Story 2 at the El Capitan . My niece, then an infant, cried and slept through some of the picture, but the rest of us were riveted.
S ubsequent Disney-Pixar triumphs included Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Brave (2012), and Monsters University (2013). As with all Disney successes, the Disney-Pixar films are winners because they combine dazzling new technology with warm, human stories.
The new millennium also saw Disney ’s television arm, the Disney Channel , hit its stride. By the middle of the decade, Disney had ushered in a new golden age of children’s television, with its pre-school programming, its pandemonium-inducing Disney Channel original movies, and an array of delightful new animated
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