Mouse Under Glass : Secrets of Disney Animation and Theme Parks - Softcover

Koenig, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964060515 ISBN 13: 9780964060517

Publisher: Bonaventure Press, 2015

Synopsis

So you think you know classic Disney animation? Well, did you know...... Belle, Aladdin and Pocahontas nearly ended up living with their mothers?... 100+ songs were composed for and then cut from Disney’s classic animated features, including 20 alone from Mary Poppins and 30 from Alice in Wonderland?... there are little silhouettes of Mickey Mouse hidden all throughout Disney’s amusement parks?... characters from previous films such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King regularly make subtle cameos in later movies?In Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks, David Koenig takes a whimsical, unauthorized look at the unknown and the unusual, from animated classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through Tarzan, plus theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World.Author of the best-selling Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland, Koenig reveals hundreds of characters, songs, storylines and theme park attractions that almost were. Along the way, learn Disney’s deep-secret formula for success that kept its entertainment offerings a notch above the competitors’.You’ll be amazed and amused by a side of Disney you’ve never seen before.

About this title

About the Author:

Raised in the shadow of the Matterhorn, David Koenig has become the world's foremost Disney "outsider," through four behind-the-scenes books about Disney's theme parks and animated movies, and as a columnist for MousePlanet.com

From Booklist:

Disney books tend toward shameless promotion or intractable hostility, so a critical but fun examination of the mouse empire is welcome. Critical here refers to examining plot inconsistencies, bloopers, and background stories in Disney movies from Snow White to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The original stories on which the scripts were based, significant Disney-version departures, and theme-park attractions based on each movie all get attention, but of surpassing value are "strange reactions" to the movies. For example, the NAACP picketed Song of the South, and that shocked Uncle Walt; now, which reaction was strange is an open question. Another surprise: contemporary reaction to Sleeping Beauty and the changes at Disney in its wake; now generally considered a Disney classic, the film was an ungodly long time a-making, got some hostile reviews, and barely broke even in first release. With a background narrative supplying historical context and such boxed features as a Disney Tragedy Trivia Quiz and the Orphan-O-Meter for passing amusement, consider this a must for Disneyphiles. Mike Tribby

About this edition

• Publisher: Bonaventure Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0964060515
• ISBN 13: 9780964060517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286