The Little Mermaid, every mention
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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 9:39 David Rosenthal John Musker, who would do The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and then many years later, Moana.
- ▶ 29:29 Ben Gilbert They come into Disney Animation, and the first film that they work on together is The Little Mermaid.
- ▶ 30:18 Ben Gilbert And he's like, I just realized we could do that in Little Mermaid.
- ▶ 31:02 David Rosenthal So, Little Mermaid comes out in 1989.
- ▶ 31:29 Ben Gilbert The Little Mermaid made less money than When Harry Met Sally in 1989.
- ▶ 31:33 Ben Gilbert Only when it came out on home video in 1990 and kids could watch VHS tapes of The Little Mermaid
- ▶ 32:07 Ben Gilbert It's fine, but it's not like one of the great Disney Renaissance films, the way that Little Mermaid and the one we're about to talk about.
- ▶ 34:08 David Rosenthal Little Mermaid cost forty million dollars to make.
- ▶ 36:26 Ben Gilbert So the Little Mermaid, which only had three multi-plane shots, because it was before CAPS,
- ▶ 1:33:40 Ben Gilbert You probably don't actually have any Disney movies from your childhood that you remember, the way that we remember Aladdin, and The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast.