Jerry Rees

Beyond The Glass: The WDW Animation Building

Discover the story behind the little studio that could. Located in MGM Studios at Walt Disney World the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida building gave us some of the best Disney films ever created, including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas. The building eventually was expanded, and Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear was fully animated at the studio. Hear from executives and animators about the history and what life was like in the "fishbowl". This great attraction, Magic Of Disney Animation, is fondly remembered by fans and cast members alike. Get ready to become part of the WDFAF family.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

The Pixar Story

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.

Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks

Typically unreliable father-figure Dave Seville unloads his six adopted children on a mutual friend, who spends the rest of the day teaching them important lessons in honesty and sharing and other rudimentary moral exercises.

Doctor of Doom

A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.