![]() We flow grandly into “Main Title/Cinderella”, which supports the roll of the opening credits supported by the Disney mixed chorus singing the heartfelt title song “Cinderella”. For (*) “Studio Logo”, the timeless and iconic “When You Wish Upon A Star” melody from “Pinocchio (1940) by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington supports the display of the Walt Disney studio logo. Lastly, as with all Disney cartoons of the era, there is a fair share of ‘Mickey-mousing’ scoring throughout the film, which supported the usual buffoonery and comedic slapstick antics.Ĭue titles coded (*) offer music, which does not appear on the album. Throughout the film, the composer team utilized the song melodies to masterfully unify their soundscape and animate several scenes. This understanding also guided them in writing the title song for “Cinderella”. This perfectly conceived aspirational song of love permeates the film and offers the lynchpin for the film’s musical narrative. The Tin Pan Alley song writing team understood Disney’s philosophy for songs used in his film, which inspired them to write “A dream is a wish your heart makes”. It can do more to bring production to life, to give it integrity, style, meaning, and unity than any other single ingredient. Music is undoubtedly the most important addition that will be made to a picture. So much so, in fact, that I cannot think of the pictorial story without thinking about the complimentary music, which will fulfill it”. “Music has always had a prominent part in all our products, from the early cartoon days. Disney had long been insistent in demanding high-quality music for his films Six songs would make the final cut and be woven into the film’s musical tapestry. Initially Larry Morey was brought in to compose the songs, but Disney was not satisfied and turned to the Tin Pan Alley team of Mack David, Jerry Livingston and Al Hofman. Walt Disney entrusted the score to Paul J. The film earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Music, Original Song, Best Music, Scoring a Musical Picture and Best Sound Recording. Critics praised the film as a masterpiece, and perhaps Walt Disney’s best. The film was a massive commercial success, earning huge profits in America and worldwide, which ensured Disney Studio’s financial viability for decades to come. She leaves a glass slipper, which the prince uses to finally track her down, and propose, which she accepts bringing the story to a most happy ending. She gains the prince’s affection, but is forced to flee by midnight, the time her transformation ends. Cinderella is forbidden to go to the ball, yet intervention by her fairy godmother transforms her into a beautifully dressed young woman, who goes to the ball when her animal friends and pumpkin are transformed into a coach. The King, who is impatient for a grandson, command a ball be held and invites of the noble single ladies of the realm to attend so the prince may at last choose a wife. Cinderella suffers cruelty and indignity at Lady Tremaine and her insufferable daughters. Sadly, her father soon dies and Lady Tremaine demotes Cinderella to the status of a scullion in her own house. The voice cast would consist of Ilene Woods as Cinderella, Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine, Verna Felton as the Fairy Godmother, and William Edward Phipps as Prince Charming.Ĭinderella who is a young girl loses her mother, only to see her lonely widowed father marry the widower Lady Tremaine, a mother of two daughters. A team of eight animators was assembled, ten writers overseen by Ben Sharpsteen would write the screenplay, and the trio of Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson would direct. Disney selected the French version of the tale by author Charles Perrault, and personally took charge of production with a $2.2 million budget, which ultimately swelled to $3.0 million. He threw caution to the wind with a gamble that would either save the company, or end it he would adapt the story “Cinderella”, a universal transcultural tale told by many throughout time beginning with Strabo in 7 B.C.E. He was $4 million in debt and tittering on bankruptcy. Walt Disney and his beloved studio had not achieved a commercial triumph since “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs thirteen years earlier.
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