In a recent retrospective, ex-employees have described how The Little Mermaid changed the way in which Disney studios approached fairy tales. One former Disney employee said, 'There really is no Beauty and the Beast without Little Mermaid.'
In a recent retrospective, former Disney employees have described how The Little Mermaid was a turning point in the company's approach to fairy tales. Walt Disney initially conceived the film as part of an anthology in the 30s but was eventually scrapped. The story sat undiscovered until 1985 when Ron Clements, the director of The Great Mouse Detective, proposed the idea of adapting the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale to the newly-anointed head of Walt Disney Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
GARY TROUSDALE, Disney animator : The Little Mermaid was the classic fairy tale thing that Disney had been doing for decades, but with new energy to it.
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