Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Disney's Beauty and the Beast characters, Songs from Beauty and the Beast, Characters in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Belle's Magical World, Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage, Sing Me a Story with Belle, Belle's Tales of Friendship, The Beast's Castle, A Change in Me, Be Our Guest. Excerpt: Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released to theaters on November 22, 1991 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bete by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and uses some ideas from the 1946 film of the same name. The film centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever. The film is the third animated feature released during a period known as the "Disney Renaissance," which began in 1989 with The Little Mermaid and ended in 1999 with Tarzan. Many animated films following its release have been influenced by its blending of traditional animation and computer generated imagery. The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, both of whom had written the music and songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid. Upon its release, Beauty and the Beast was a significant commercial and critical success, ...