pointsofellipsis edited the table of contents of Tale as Old as Time (The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast) Thursday, April 14, 2011.
I. True as It Can Be
The origins of the original story.
II. Ever Just the Same/Ever a Surprise
Disney on the rebound after the 1984 change in management.
III. Finding You Can Change/Learning You Were Wrong
The initial version of the film.
IV. Both a Little Scared/Neither One Prepared
Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale become directors of a new interpretation.
V. Tune as Old as Song
Howard Ashman and Alan Menken make the film a musical.
VI. True That He's No Prince Charming
Creating the characters.
VII. There Must Be More Than This Provincial Life
Creating a world for the story.
VIII. Bittersweet and Strange
Completing the film, and the death of Howard Ashman.
IX. Who'd Have Ever Thought/That This Could Be?
Beauty and the Beast comes to the stage.
X. Just a Little Change/Small, to Say the Least
Beauty and the Beast in IMAX and in 3-D.
XI. With a Dreamy Far-Off Look/And Her Nose Stuck in a Book
Acknowledgements, bibliography, and index.