Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 20 Hash Fellow Posted January 20 "Roger Rabbit" is often cited as the beginning of the Second Golden Age of animation, but "Little Mermaid" showed it wasn't a fluke. Two recent articles about "The Little Mermaid"... A Watershed Moment: The 35th Anniversary of “The Little Mermaid” provides some background on the development project... Quote [Howard] Ashman, in particular, had an innate sense of music informing the plot, and emotion. “He brought a new sensibility, in terms of how he saw music weaving into the story, that did set all this off,” said [Ron] Musker. “Howard’s involvement was a watershed and a turning point. We had never done anything like that before. It was a big learning experience for all of us. Working with Howard made us feel as if this was something special.” And, of course, there was that awkward home video cover... The Complete, Uncensored Truth Behind the Infamous DISNEY LITTLE MERMAID SCANDAL Quote ...But I finished the art by dawn and it went to Disney and then to the printer. Nobody noticed that one tower in the coral castle closely resembled male genitalia. Not, that is, until a man in Arizona brought a copy of the tape home from the video department of an Albertson’s supermarket, noticed the phallic image, and pointed it out to his wife... Quote
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