Did the Little Mermaid save Disney?

Along with the major success of both Disney's 1986 animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the 1988 Disney/Amblin live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after some films produced by Disney were ...



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This is why The Little Mermaid is known as “The Movie That Saved Disney” because it began the best decade in the history of the Walt Disney company known as The Renaissance Era from 1989-1999.

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While lighting itself isn't all that expensive, darkness can be used to hide a lot of things. Halle Bailey is not actually a mermaid, and so having the scenes be darker makes it easier to disguise the CGI work.

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