Behind Disney Animation: What We Never Saw

By Susan Freudenheim

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/behind_disney_animation_what_we_never_saw_20091123/

“We’re making a movie about ourselves!” That’s what then-Disney Studios animation chief Peter Schneider told his bosses back in the early 1990s, when the gang in the storied halls of cartoons and camp were cooking up “The Lion King,” soon to be Disney’s box office and award-winning triumph -- onscreen and then, much later, onstage.

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