A report on The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

Original theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Georges de La Tour's 1640 painting Magdalene with the Smoking Flame is shown in the film.
Ariel meet-and-greet character at Disneyland Paris

1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

- The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
Original theatrical release poster by John Alvin

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

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American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

The building on Kingswell Avenue in Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1923 to 1926
Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.
The original Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the headquarters of the animation department from 1940 to 1985.
Roy E. Disney (Chairman, 1985–2003), nephew of Walt Disney, was a key figure in restructuring the animation department following the reorganization of the Disney company in 1984.
1400 Flower Street in Glendale, California, one of several buildings used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
1400 Air Way, another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
622/610 Circle 7 Drive (the Hart-Dannon Building), another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 1990s.
Walt Disney Feature Animation logo, used from 1997 to 2007.
John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, 2006–2018, left) and Edwin Catmull (President, 2006–2018, right) came to Disney following its acquisition of Pixar and dedicated themselves to revitalizing Walt Disney Animation Studios after the studio's unsuccessful early 2000s period.
The south side of the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, as seen from the public park that separates it from the Ventura Freeway.

While Oliver & Company and the next feature The Little Mermaid were in production, Disney collaborated with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and master animator Richard Williams to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a groundbreaking live-action/animation hybrid directed by Robert Zemeckis which featured licensed animated characters from other animation studios.

Press artwork from the sequel showing most of the main characters in the franchise.

List of The Little Mermaid characters

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Press artwork from the sequel showing most of the main characters in the franchise.

This article lists information of animated original characters from Disney's The Little Mermaid franchise, covering the 1989 film, its prequel, its direct-to-video sequel and prequel films, and the stage musical adaptation.

Menken in 2013

Alan Menken

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American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Menken in 2013

His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards.

Ariel as she appears in her mermaid form in The Little Mermaid (1989).

Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

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Ariel as she appears in her mermaid form in The Little Mermaid (1989).
Sierra Boggess as Ariel in the stage musical
Ariel, as she appears in the Disney Parks.

Ariel is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated film The Little Mermaid (1989).

The Roy E. Disney Animation Building, opened in 1995 as the new location for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Disney Renaissance

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The period from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films that were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, much as the studio did during the era of Walt Disney during the 1930s to 1960s.

The period from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films that were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, much as the studio did during the era of Walt Disney during the 1930s to 1960s.

The Roy E. Disney Animation Building, opened in 1995 as the new location for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The original Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios, which the animation department left in 1985.
1400 Flower Street in Glendale, where several films immediately predating the Disney Renaissance through Pocahontas were partially produced.
1400 Air Way in Glendale, where several films of the Disney Renaissance were partially produced.
622/610 Circle 7 Drive (the Hart-Dannon Building), where several films of the Disney Renaissance were partially produced.

The animated films released by Disney during this period are: The Little Mermaid (1989), The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998), and Tarzan (1999).

Theatrical release poster by John Alvin

Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

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1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Upon seeing the initial storyboard reels in 1989, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered that the film be scrapped and started over from scratch.
A frame from the "Beauty and the Beast" ballroom dance sequence. The background was animated using computer generated imagery which, when the traditionally animated characters are composited against it using Pixar's CAPS system, gives the illusion of a dollying film camera.

Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Walt Disney Pictures decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical period drama.

Howard Ashman

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American playwright, lyricist and stage director.

American playwright, lyricist and stage director.

His work included songs for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.

Ursula (The Little Mermaid)

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Ursula is a fictional character who appears as the main antagonist in Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film The Little Mermaid (1989).

Playbill cover at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

The Little Mermaid (musical)

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Playbill cover at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Sierra Boggess as Ariel in "Part of Your World"

The Little Mermaid is a stage musical produced by Disney Theatrical, based on the animated 1989 Disney film of the same name and the classic story by Hans Christian Andersen about a mermaid who dreams of the world above the sea and gives up her voice to find true love.

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The Little Mermaid (2023 film)

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Upcoming American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay written by Jane Goldman and David Magee.

Upcoming American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay written by Jane Goldman and David Magee.

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It is a production of Walt Disney Pictures and is a live-action adaptation of the 1989 animated film of the same name, which itself is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the same name.