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Wolfgang Reitherman
Visual Effects 1909 - 1985

Wolfgang Reitherman

Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 – May 22, 1985) was a German-American animator and filmmaker. He began working for Disney in 1934, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts, including The Band... Read full bio →

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Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Don Hahn 2009 1h 26m 7.3

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over.

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