BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

A selfish prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with
a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.

Having lived a life in selfishness, a young prince is cursed by a mysterious enchantress to having the
appearance of a monstrous beast. His only hope is to learn to love a young woman and earn her love in
return in order to redeem himself. Years later, his chance shows itself when a young maiden named
Belle offers to take her ill father's place as his prisoner. With help from the castle's enchanted staff, Belle
learns to appreciate her captor and immediately falls in love with him. Back in the village however, an
unscrupulous hunter has his own plans for Belle.

—Blazer346

An arrogant young prince and his castle's servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who
turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong
village girl Belle enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice. With the help of his
enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out
of his isolation.

—Jwelch5742

Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off
the misplaced "affections" of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell
because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet.

—Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>

Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for
others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return
before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But
who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village,
becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast imprisons him for
trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him
trapped in the castle and offers her place instead. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the
castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult
and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding "you can change and learning you
were wrong".
 The Little Mermaid
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human
prince on land.

—Kenneth Chisholm

In Disney's beguiling animated romp, rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land.
On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls
for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal with the sea
witch Ursula to become human for three days. But when plans go awry for the star-crossed lovers, the
king must make the ultimate sacrifice for his daughter.

—Jwelch5742

Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is
dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught
in arguments with her father over those "barbaric fish-eaters". She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch,
to strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father.

This is the story of a little mermaid named Ariel, who dreams of going on land. When her father, King
Triton, forbids her to go on land, Ariel visits Ursula who her father had banished. Even though she helps
her get to land, what Ariel doesn't know is that Ursula has plans to destroy her to get revenge on her
father.
 Cinderella
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some
unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.

—Kenneth Chisholm

Cinderella, the beautiful and kind-hearted daughter, sees her world turn upside down when her beloved
mother dies, and her pained father remarries another woman, the wicked Lady Tremaine, who has two
equally cruel daughters, the jealous Anastasia and Drizella. But, once more, things will go from bad to
worse, when Cinderella's father, too, dies, leaving her all alone in the Lady's clutches to serve as her
maid-of-all-work. Under those circumstances, a shabby and neglected Cinderella doesn't stand much of
a chance of attending the King's royal ball--let alone, captivate the handsome Prince--unless she turns to
her loving Fairy Godmother who has quite a few tricks up her sleeve. Nevertheless, will the wronged
damsel ever find peace--and with it--her own Prince Charming?

—Nick Riganas

In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother
dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia.
When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house.
Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable
bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible
maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella
has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, led by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend
a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball.
At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight,
the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.
 Sleeping Beauty

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a
prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

—Kenneth Chisholm

After a beautiful princess, Aurora, is born in to royalty everyone gathers to exchange gifts. Everything
is perfectly fine until an unwanted guest appears, Maleficent. Maleficent casts a spell on the young
princess and announces that she will die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on
the evening of her 16th birthday. Fortunately, one of the good fairies, Merryweather, changes the
spell so Aurora will fall asleep, and that the only way to wake her from her sleep is true love's kiss.
Finally the day comes.

—Pat Conolly

Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent -
who declares that before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday she will die by pricking her finger on
the spindle of a spinning wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of
three good-natured - but not too bright - fairies.

When a new princess is born to King Stefan and his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony,
three good fairies - Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil
sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a
curse on the princess - that she will die before sunset on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on
a spinning wheel's spindle. Merryweather turns things around by casting a spell that will allow the
princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies
take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her
as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a
king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan's - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to
kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into pricking her finger
on the spindle of a spinning wheel (created by Maleficent herself!) and falling asleep. Realizing that
the Prince is in trouble, the three good fairies head to Maleficent's castle at the Forbidden Mountain,
and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes,
and the power of Maleficent's evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King
Stefan's castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince
strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?
 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued
by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.

—Dynasti Noble

The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in
the kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic
Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest,
where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy,
Bashful, Sleepy, and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an
enchanted apple, only the magic of true love's kiss can save her.

—Lesley (from the back of the Snow White DVD)

In a Kingdom long ago, the princess Snow White who is awaiting for her true
love to find her. But the rage of the queens suffering heart sent a huntsman to
kill her but instead he enlists her to run and hide with 7 dwarves. The queen
was enraged by this and turned herself into an old hag and making poison
apples to have her vengeance. She failed her vengeance by the prince, also
known as Prince Charming and he woke his true love with true loves kiss and
carried her off into the castle in the sky

For fear that Snow White's beauty surpasses her own, green with envy, the
treacherous and vain Queen orders her loyal huntsman to take the princess
deep into the impenetrable woods and kill her. But, fate has other plans. In an
act of unprecedented kindness, the pitiful hunter spares the maiden's life--and
as Snow White finds refuge in the cosy cottage of the seven friendly dwarfs--for
once in her life, she feels what it is like to be safe. Eventually, with the curse of
the Sleeping Death at her disposal, the disguised Queen will set off to trick the
unsuspecting Snow White into a death-like slumber; nevertheless, is there a
spell more potent than Love?

—Nick Riganas

The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the
Disney Studios, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" may have been superseded
technically by many of the films that followed it. But its simple story of a
charming little princess saved from the evil deeds of her wicked stepmother, the
queen, by a group of seven adorable dwarfs made history when it was first
released in December, 1937 and has since become an incomparable screen
classic.
 The Mouse and the Lion

The Lion, the King of the Jungle, is taking his royal snooze when a mouse comes
on a safari to his royal hideaway. The mouse is from Bungling Brothers Circus
[us], and his mission is to take HRH back to the states as a circus act. The mouse
then goes about his business of capturing the lion. At the fadeout, back in the
USA, the lion of performing on a precarious tight-rope, high above the arena
sawdust, while the mouse whip lashes him.
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