19 Little Known Disney Facts

1.

Lewis Carroll wrote the riddle ''Why is a raven like a writing desk?'' as nonsense... It has no answer. This has not stopped people, despite being repeatedly told that there is not, nor should there be, any answer, from trying to contrive one.

2.

In Beauty and the Beast, the majority of the sculptures seen in the castle are different earlier versions of the Beast.

3.

Producer of The Fox and the Hound, Wolfgang Reitherman, brought his pet fox in as reference for the animators.

4.

This garden that Meg in Hercules walks through while singing about LOVE, of all things, is a Garden of RAPE! Each of these statues are different versions of rape in Greek mythology.

5.

In Hercules, Phil cleans himself up using a lions skin. The skin once belonged to Scar from The Lion King.

6.

In the book version Quasimodo is schizophrenic, and the gargoyles represent his other personalities.

7.

In Lilo And Stitch, Earth is referred to as being in Section 17, Area 51 in the Galactic charts, one of several references to Area 51.

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The plot line of The Lion King is loosely based upon William Shakespeares Hamlet, a story of a young prince whose uncle takes over the kingdom and marries the queen after killing the king or prince's father.

9.

The wildebeest stampede in The Lion King took Disneys CG department approximately three years to animate. A new computer program had to be written for the CG wildebeest stampede that allowed hundreds of computer generated animals to run but without colliding into each other.

10.

It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands.

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It is stated in ''The Making of'' book that the most difficult shot to film in the entire movie is the shot in which Jack is reaching for the doorknob to Christmasland. Viewers can see the perfect reflection of the forest surrounding Jack in the background.

12.

It took a group of around 100 people three years to complete this movie. For one second of film, up to 12 stop-motion moves had to be made.

13.

When Dory is comforting Marlin inside the whale, the animators used the exact same sequence earlier in the movie when Dory meets Marlin for the first time.

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Pixar developed a very realistic look of the surface water in Finding Nemo, but had to make it look more fake so people wouldnt think it was real footage of the ocean surface.

15.

The Great White shark's name in the movie was Bruce. ''Bruce'' was the nickname given to the models used for the shark in the original ''Jaws'', named after Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer.

16.

In the song ''Savages'' from Pocahontas, some lyrics where changed as they were viewed as inappropriate and racially charged. 1: ''What can you expect from filthy little heathens? Their whole disgusting race is like a curse!'' changed to ''What can you expect from filthy little heathens? Heres what you get when the races are diverse!'' 2: ''Lets go kill a few, men!'' changed to ''Lets go get a few men!'' 3: ''Dirty redskin devils, now we sound the drums of war!'' was changed to ''Dirty shrieking devils, now we sound the drums of war!''

17.

Marge Champion served as a movement model for Snow White. Some of this animation was later reworked for Maid Marion in Disneys Robin Hood. This method is used frequently by Disney to save on the budget.

18.

Pinto Colvig, who voiced Sleepy and Grumpy, was the voice of Goofy.

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The custom Academy Award granted to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs consisted of one regular sized award and seven smaller sized awards.