As you mentioned, the recording session footage of "Be Our Guest" featured there is from the Maurice version of the song. Jerry Orbach wears a blue shirt, and Angela Lansbury has a salmon-esque blouse. But when they use this footage on the Signature Collection's "The Recording Sessions" featurette, it's edited to have the re-dubbed lyrics, since Orbach sings "tie a napkin 'round your neck, cherie". The video has some kind of window decal over his mouth, but the way the rest of the face moves, you can tell he was actually saying "Monsieur" since it doesn't have as much chin movement as when someone says "Cherie." Likewise, when Lansbury is singing "He's our guest!" as depicted in the VHS trailer, we know it's the Maurice version. On "The Recording Sessions," they've dubbed it to have her sing "She's our guest!" which I guess they can get away with since the mouth movement for "he" and "she" is marginally different.Ames wrote:*edit* I'm still watching the video I posted, and obviously Angela sang "he's our guest!"...how did the re-recording for the scene/reanimating of the scene happen? Like, they just came in for a short period, or were they doing other tweaks, needing everyone to come in (you know, how they have to come in numerous times to read)? I need to do some research on this!
*edit* This gives a little info:http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=6858 (via Wikipedia)Director Gary Trousdale points out that "Be Our Guest" was originally intended to be sung to Maurice. "The song had already been recorded and the sequence partially animated when we decided that it would be more meaningful if it was directed towards Belle," says Trousdale. "After all, she is one of the two main characters and the story revolves around her coming to the castle. We had to bring Jerry Orbach and all the other vocal talents back into the studio to change all references to gender that appeared in the original recording."
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I apparently haven't watched the great Platinum Edition documentary in forever; Don Hahn says that Howard Ashman did come back to spruce up the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dC-ZlsYSpo
If you watch the "20/20" production report on Beauty and the Beast, you can see Orbach wearing a tan shirt for the re-dubbing session which occurred January 29, 1991. Unfortunately, they didn't include footage of Lansbury at the re-dub, but it makes sense, since Orbach does the lion's share of the singing in the film, whereas Lansbury probably just came in for a couple lines and was done much sooner (or before the "20/20" crew arrived).
Cinderella was the very first film I ever saw, as it was one of the earliest VHS tapes in our family's collection, so it had a lot of repeat viewings for a good two years or so. Over time, it got less play thanks to introductions to the likes of newer films (The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, etc.), but of all our clamshell VHS tapes, Cinderella has the most wear and tear which shows just how often we watched it as kids. It's also the only one that developed that glitch, which shows how often we played it compared to our other tapes. I bought another one just to have it look nice on the VHS shelf in my loft, but the original copy is still at my parents' house.Disney Duster wrote:I'm surprised the film got watched a lot by you, to be honest.
Albert
