The Disney Channel's Dateline Disney - Beauty & the Beast (1991)

Dateline Disney was an ongoing segment on the Disney Channel that would air between programs that kept the general public abreast on the latest happenings with the Walt Disney Company. This covered film releases, theme park events and updates, Disney Channel projects and more. This installment centers around Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature Beauty & the Beast.

Beauty & the Beast was originally intended to be Walt Disney Pictures' first animated feature produced with a european director. This came out of the production experience of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. When that production didn't work out, the project was brought stateside and Howard Ashman & Alan Menken were brought in to make the film into a musical.

Upon release, Beauty & the Beast was the most critically acclaimed and financially successful animated feature ever released up to that time. It was showered with awards and is the only hand drawn film to have ever been nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.

This segment focuses on the voice cast of the film.

Original airdate November 1991

Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.