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b'By the\\nmid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard\\ntimes. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old\\ntimers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series\\nof box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation\\nwere over. Maybe the public didn\'t care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could\\nproduce a happy ending. A miracle man named Howard Ashman regained Disney\\u2019s\\nmagic with a staggering output of musical hits - "Little Mermaid,"\\n"Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin." This is a short\\ntribute to the man that changed the face of Disney animation as we know it\\ntoday. Listen to all the wonderful raw audio of original ideas and songs\\npitched during the animation process. Howard\\u2019s time at the Disney studios has\\nbeen called by animators as \\u201cWaking Sleeping Beauty.\\u201d'