Laserdisc Title: "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: WORK IN PROGRESS"
Edition: Letterbox Edition (Double-Disc Set)
Special Features: ---Full-Length Version as Shown at the 1991 New York Film Festival---
Directed By: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach
Production / Year: 1991 The Walt Disney Company
Running Time: 101 Minutes / Color and Black & White
Audio Format: Digital Sound, Dolby Surround, Stereo, CX Encoded
Video Format: LTBX (1.66:1), NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Not Rated, Close Captioned
Distributed By: Walt Disney Home Video
Catalog / Spine Number: 1591 CS

IMPORTANT: This is a 12-inch Diameter Laserdisc, which is NOT the same as DVD and cannot be played on a DVD player!

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to very minor hairline surface swirls, if any (Discs Manufactured in Japan)
Jacket: Very Good* - Normal shelf wear, few creases, slightly worn-out corners or edges and small cut-out bottom LHS corner of the jacket (pictured)

Synopsis:

A modern movie masterpiece, Disney's Beauty and the Beast waltzed away with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture - the first ever for an animated film. Along with winning the prestigious Best Picture Golden Globe Award, it now ranks among history's most highly acclaimed cinematic achievements.

When the film's beautiful book-loving heroine, Belle, sings the first of an unprecedented three Oscar-nominated songs, you too will fall instantly under its spell. However, it is the spell of an enchantress that opens this classic fairy tale, turning a cruel prince into a hideous beast.

A "work-in-progress" edition has also been released on a CAV laserdisc in 1992. This is the unfinished preview version shown at the New York Film Festival in September 1991, with 80% of its animation complete, the remaining footage represented by sketches, drawings and painted storyboards. It runs the same length as the final cut and has no new scenes but includes a alternate version of "Be Our Guest" sung to Belle's father after he stumbles into the castle. It was decided to make "Be Our Guest" more of a show stopper and place it in the middle of the film to be sung to Belle. The alternate scene is all in penciltest.


On the soundtrack and in the film that first was screened, there is a scene during the "Gaston" song in which Lefou tries to spell Gaston's name and then gives up. This scene is not in the video version. Only the soundtrack on cassette has the full length music of "West Wing", which is the energenic instrumental music heard when the Beast saves Belle from the wolves. (The CD's version is cut right where Belle is running out of the castle before the attack.) The CD box set "The Music Behind The Magic", which features The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin music, is also completely void of the full track.

THIS IS NOT A DVD!!! THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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