[Education Resource Kit for exhibition "Dreams Come True - The Art of Disney's Classic Fairy Tales" at the Australian Center for the Moving Image in 2010]
INTRODUCTION
Discover the artistry behind Disney's timeless animated films.
From November 2010, ACMI hosts a unique exhibition drawn from the archives of the Walt Disney Animation Research Library.
Dreams Come True is a rare opportunity to see original concept art, story sketches, drawings, maquettes and final frame cels from some of the Walt Disney Studios' most celebrated animated films.
An Australian exclusive, the exhibition features artworks from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Princess and the Frog, and Disney's latest animated feature, Tangled.
Walt Disney began adapting fairy tales for animation in the 1920s, inspired by the traditional tales of the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen. The exhibition explores developments in story and animation techniques and showcases the work of artists such as Mary Blair, Kay Nielsen, Eyvind Earle and Glen Keane.
Fall under the spell of Disney's classic animation.
WALT DISNEY ANIMATION RESEARCH LIBRARY
The collection that would become the Walt Disney Animation Research Library (ARL) was established in 1923 to conserve and protect the artistic heritage of Walt Disney Animation Studios. The ARL collection is available to be used ‘in-house’ and is a rich resource for creative inspiration for the artists and animators working in the Studio. The ARL contains artworks and production elements from the entire catalogue of Disney’s animated films, and this is the first time that so many of these have been on display in Australia.
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