World's Greatest Movie Trivia: Disney Princess Edition

By Catherine Olen

Ever wonder how much you know about your favorite Disney Princess films? Welcome to the World's Greatest Movie Trivia Book! The best thing about a Disney movie is that once it finishes, it is far from over. Want to get the most out of the Princess movie you watch?

This unauthorized guide to your favorite Disney Princess films give you a ne

• Language: English
• Publisher: World
• Release date: Dec 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648220159

Catherine Olen

Catherine Olen has been visiting Universal parks since she was a small child. An annual passholder at Universal Studios Hollywood for over thirty years, Catherine now offers guests to see Universal theme park in her own unique way. She currently lives in Orange County California and visits Universal Studios Hollywood several times each year.

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World’s Greatest Movie Trivia

Disney Princess Edition

© 2020 Catherine Olen

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About the Author

Catherine Olen has been watching Disney movies since she was a small child. Olen fell in love with these movies on the big screen, going to see the latest Disney film to be released through the years.

With the advent of video tape, Catherine was able to watch these enchanting films over and over allowing her to grow her love of the classic films released before her birth. Now, Catherine has an extensive collection of Disney films and indulges herself by watching them regularly.

Olen now shares her love of all things Disney in World’s Greatest Movie Trivia: Disney Princess Edition.

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Dedication

To everyone who gave me their support and assistance in the process of finishing this book

To Every person that has fallen in love with Disney films throughout the years

To the animators who have brought these wonderful stories to life on the big screen

Lastly, my thanks to Walt Disney for the vision that created these amazing movies

Table of Contents

Introduction

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty

The Little Mermaid

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

Pocahontas

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Mulan

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

Mulan II

Cinderella III – A Twist in Time

Little Mermaid III – Ariel’s Beginning

The Princess and the Frog

Tangled

Brave

Frozen

Moana

Frozen II

Conclusion

Answer Key

Introduction

The origins of the Disney animated films go back to 1934 when Walt Disney made up his mind to create a full-length motion picture using the same animation techniques used in his highly successful cartoon shorts.

Disney was alone in his belief that his first motion picture would be a huge success, but his friends, family, and business partners disagreed from the very first time he mentioned this new project. The arguments against trying to expand on the short subject cartoons were all valid, including the idea that adult audiences would never sit through a ninety-minute cartoon, or the story would not hold the attention of small children.

Disney was never someone to be dissuaded when he made up his mind and began the creative process to bring this enchanting story to life on the silver screen. Disney estimated his budget to be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, an enormous amount of money for that time. His animation studio employed two hundred people, including story developers, artists, cell painters, and creative consultants. Soon, the staff would balloon to six hundred people, and the cost of this film grew exponentially. Disney borrowed a total of one million five-hundred thousand dollars from investors and mortgaged his studio to complete this project, knowing that this would be the end of his career in animation if this movie failed.

The first draft of the story was twenty-one pages of notes from staff writer Richard Creedon based on the story written in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm. Disney and his story consultants became involved and began a series of meetings to expand the story, include humor elements, and bringing the dwarfs to life with unique personalities.

To the surprise of his negators, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opened on December 21, 1937, with a star-studded event including Hollywood elite and dignitaries invited by Walt Disney himself.

The full release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began in February 1938 and became a huge success for the studio and Walt Disney.

After this success, Disney’s backers would no longer doubt his genius, and they began this new division of Walt Disney animation. Over the next years, Disney would have varying degrees of success with animated feature films. Unfortunately, in the 1940s, the studio was heavily in debt due to the war and low box office receipts from the last three film releases.

In 1943, Disney announced plans for his next princess film, Cinderella, the French fairy tale written in 1697 by author Charles Perrault. The story of Cinderella has been retold over the centuries within cultures worldwide, but Disney took his inspiration directly from the Perrault version of the story. The story writers got to work on this new film while other departments worked on other animated and live-action films for the studio.

Disney busied himself with other projects; he left this production to his nine top animation executives. While they still made sure Disney was included in scripts and memos for the film’s progress, Disney has moved on and trusted these men to create the finished film.

Cinderella premiered on February 15, 1950, in Boston, MA. And entered wide release a month later and was acclaimed as the best animated Disney film to date. The film made over four million dollars during its initial release and garnered several awards, including three Academy Awards™.

Disney enhanced the box office receipts by releasing a record album of the songs featured in Cinderella, which include three hit singles.

With the studio’s continued creative success, Disney announced his next project in 1950 with Sleeping Beauty, the French fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 and the Brother Grimm in 1812. While there were other earlier versions of the story throughout history but Disney chose the Perrault and Brother Grimm versions for his adaptation.

During the film making process, Disney began laying out his new theme park, Disneyland, in Anaheim, Ca. that would include a castle as the central feature of this new theme park. Initially, the castle did not have anything within, but Walt Disney challenged his Imagineers to develop a new attraction within the large castle building.

In April 1957, Disney opened the new Sleeping Beauty Castle walkthrough to the public containing scenes from the upcoming Sleeping Beauty motion picture in development. This created excitement for the new film and a perfect opportunity for advertising within Disneyland.

The motion picture opened in January 1959 to rave reviews and grossed 5.3 million dollars in its initial release. Unfortunately for Disney, the film cost over six million dollars, and the Disney studios reported a loss that year. Over the next years, Sleeping Beauty would be re-released in theaters and go on to make a profit for the company.

The Disney animation company would continue to make animated features even after the passing of Walt Disney in 1966. Still, it would not revisit the princess film until thirty years later, with the release of the Hans Christian Anderson tale of The Little Mermaid. Disney animation toyed with the idea in the 1930s but chose to prioritize other projects first.

In 1985, Ron Clements found a copy of The Little Mermaid in a bookstore and pitched the idea to CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, and the film was greenlighted but would not go into production for two years.

Once production began, the company created one of the biggest budgets for the twenty-eighth animated film and brought on Alan Menken to write the score, which would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award™ for Best Original Score and Best Original Song with Under the Sea.

From this point forward, Disney animation continued their popular genre of the Princess film with Beauty and the Beast in 1991 and Aladdin in 1992 with Belle and Jasmine joining the growing number of Disney princesses.

Beauty and the Beast would become so popular it won the Academy Award™ for Best Picture, the first animated film to win the prestigious award in the award’s history. Aladdin would become the most profitable film of all time with a worldwide box office exceeding five hundred million dollars. While children and adults enjoyed the strong-willed new Princess Jasmine, Aladdin’s runaway star would be the Genie starring Robin Williams.

By the end of the 1990s, Disney animation would add two new princesses with Pocahontas and Mulan, and these films would continue the tradition of Oscar-worthy soundtracks and storylines.

Disney animation would expand on the Disney princess films as they produced sequels to their popular princess films starting in 1994 with Return of Jafar, a direct to video sequel to Aladdin. In 1997, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas would continue the new direct to video tradition. Pocahontas, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Mulan soon have their sequels added to the list.

In 2007, Disney would create a new princess film poking fun at the princess genre with the release of Enchanted, the story of a princess that passed through a portal into the real world of New York City. This new twist on the Disney princess film became another lucrative film making over three hundred and forty million dollars worldwide.

In 2009, the first African American Princess would come to the big screen with The Princess and the Frog, the story of a young girl and her dream of opening her own restaurant. This new princess film was set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana, giving audiences another Disney princess to fall in love with.

In 2010, Rapunzel would become the eleventh in the princess royal court in the film Tangled. The concept had been drawn up in 1996 by supervising animator Glen Keane. The project was greenlit by then studio head Michael Eisner but would not go into production for several years.

When the film finally went into production, the budget was an astounding two hundred and sixty million dollars. Once again, Disney hit gold when the audiences fell in love with the Princess stole and raised in a hidden tower.

In 2012, Pixar would bring their first princess to life with Merida in the film Brave. Pixar would continue the theme of princesses who wish to forge their own path through life instead of entering into arranged marriages to show young girls that they can become anything they