Despite the efforts of the Grand Duke, Cinderella flees the palace, losing one of her slippers on the staircase. However, when Cinderella hears the clock tolling midnight, she runs away before she and the Prince can exchange names. The Duke prevents anyone from interfering as Cinderella and the Prince dance a waltz and wander out to the palace grounds, falling deeper in love. The Prince is instantly smitten, so the King orders the Grand Duke to make sure the romance goes without a hitch. The fairy godmother also gives Cinderella a shimmering ball gown and glass slippers, but warns her that all the magic will end on the stroke of midnight.Ĭinderella arrives at the ball, and is not recognized by her stepsisters, though her stepmother believes something is familiar about her. She transforms Jaq, Gus, and two other mice into four white horses, a pumpkin into a coach, and Cinderella's old horse Major and bloodhound Bruno into a coachman and footman, respectively. There, she is met by her Fairy Godmother, who has come to help. However, when Cinderella attempts to go to the ball with her family, her stepsisters recognize their belongings and angrily tear the dress apart, before leaving Cinderella behind.Ī distraught Cinderella runs out to the garden in tears, kneeling on a stone bench. Jaq, Gus, and the other animals decide to fix up the dress for Cinderella, using beads and a sash discarded by the stepsisters. Her stepmother and stepsisters, afraid she will upstage them at the ball, deliberately keep her busy with no time to spare. Wanting to attend, Cinderella finds a dress of her late birth mother's to fix up. Despite the objections of the Grand Duke, the King invites all the eligible maidens in the kingdom to a royal ball, so that the Prince will choose one as his wife. One day, the local King becomes impatient for his son to provide him with grandchildren. She also protects them from being eaten by her stepmother's cat Lucifer, who makes her duties even harder in retaliation. Despite this, Cinderella remains kind of heart, obediently doing her chores whilst taking care of the mice and birds that live in the château, making friends of them, mainly of two mice named Jaq and Gus. Cinderella's stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella, also take advantage of her meekness, mocking her and adding to her workload. Lady Tremaine, jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty and determined to forward her own daughters' interests, orders Cinderella to become a scullion in her own château, overburdening her with chores. When Cinderella is a young girl, her widowed father marries Lady Tremaine, a widow with two daughters of her own. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007), and a live-action remake in 2015. It also received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Sound Recording, and Best Original Song for " Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". Ĭinderella was released to theatres on February 15, 1950, receiving critical acclaim and becoming a box office success, which made it Disney's biggest hit since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and helped reverse the studio's fortunes. Walt Disney and his animators returned to feature film production in 1948 after producing a string of package films with the idea of adapting Charles Perrault's Cendrillon into an animated film. By 1947, the studio was over $4 million in debt and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Because of this, the studio endured box office bombs such as Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942), all of which would later become more successful with several re-releases in theaters and on home video. It features the voices of Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald, Luis van Rooten and Don Barclay with Helene Stanley and Claire Du Brey each serving as the live model for Cinderella and Fairy Godmother respectively.ĭuring the early 1940s, Walt Disney Productions had suffered financially after losing connections to the European film markets due to the outbreak of World War II. The film was directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale of the same title, it is the 12th Disney animated feature film. Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
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