A closer look
During the classic era of hand-drawn animation, Walt Disney Studios frequently cut production costs by completely recycling entire animated sequences from their older movies and simply drawing new character models over the existing movements. For example, the famous ballroom dancing scene between Belle and the Beast is an exact frame-by-frame trace of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip dancing in Sleeping Beauty, saving the animators hundreds of hours of complex artistic labor. It is incredibly funny that the company globally revered for its unparalleled artistic magic and boundless childhood imagination was secretly operating with the exact same copy-and-paste mentality as a lazy college student trying to finish a term paper ten minutes before the deadline
