Mousetalgia Episode 632: Inside the Walt Disney Animation Studios Story Department with Paul Briggs
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mousetalgia welcomes Paul Briggs, Disney Animation Director of the upcoming feature "Raya and the Last Dragon," to the show to talk with us about the storytelling process at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Briggs, who was the Story Department Supervisor before directing "Raya," talks about finding the core emotions behind a film, and stretching the boundaries of imagination. Paul shares some insights about the process of developing stories for Disney Feature Animation, shares some secrets behind the making of Frozen and Big Hero 6, for which he was head of story, and then talks about the cultural impact of his directorial debut, "Raya and the Last Dragon." Plus, in honor of this week's 119th anniversary of Walt Disney's birth, Kristen Carr speaks to Maria Massad from The Walt Disney Birthplace about progress on the restoration of the home in which Walt was born in Chicago, and the non-profit organization's virtual celebration of Walt's birthday on Dec. 5 with a virtual tour and a party in the actual room in which Walt was born - with special guests, giveaways and more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mousetalja from November 30, 2020. |
| 0:10.2 | Mostalgia is a member of the Mice Chat Podcast Network. Hang on to them hats and glasses, |
| 0:30.7 | because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness. |
| 0:36.1 | This is Mousalgia. Carpe Kingdom, seize the magic. This is Mousetalgia. |
| 0:38.5 | Carpe Kingdom, Seize the Magic. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to Mousalja, your podcast, all about Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, and everything else. |
| 0:53.4 | Disney, I'm your host, Dave, and with us today we have Jeff. |
| 0:55.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:56.7 | Kristen. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello. |
| 0:57.9 | And Becky. |
| 0:59.1 | So today we're going to start off with a Mousetalgia Roundup. |
| 1:04.9 | Get ready, folks, for the weekly Mouselagel Roundup. |
| 1:16.6 | Jeff, what is today's Mousalgia Roundup? |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, today we're going to be talking about storytelling. |
| 1:22.5 | You've probably heard many times on this show. |
| 1:26.4 | You know, whether we're talking to someone who designs rides for the theme park, |
| 1:31.6 | someone who works on the animated features, someone who's involved with producing films for the company. |
| 1:35.0 | Like, it always boils down to story and storytelling, right? And so, and our special guest today is going to really dig deep into the storytelling at the Disney studio today. |
| 1:41.5 | So we're going to be talking about that. |
| 1:42.6 | So I thought in honor of that, maybe for today's roundup, we'll go around and we'll each share one of our favorite stories that we have learned from the Disney company, whether it's an actual story that they've told our favorite story, like maybe from a film or a show or something, or whether it's just a story that |
| 2:02.0 | is personal to us based on our experiences with Disney in our lives. So I hope that makes |
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