Directors Dan Abraham and Trent Correy on the Once Upon A Studio short, and the special Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse moment with "Feed the Birds."
The Big Picture To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios, the short Once Upon A Studio is nearly 10 minutes of utter joy, getting to watch an all-star cast of beloved animated characters interacting with each other.
DAN ABRAHAM: This is the only studio that I’ve ever wanted to work at. When I was growing up, there wasn’t a lot of animation influences out there besides Disney and going to the theater to see those films was an event. We didn’t do it very often in my family, so when my mom took me to see Lady and the Tramp and The Aristocats and Fox and the Hound, those movies became a part of me.
ABRAHAM: We had directed a short together prior to this, called Once Upon A Snowman, an Olaf origin story, and we had such a good time doing that. Trent comes up through animation and I come up through story. Even though we’re in the same building, we’re in different departments. We always had the same goals, but coming from those two different pipelines and mindsets, was really a fantastic team of figuring out the best way to tell a story.
CORREY: I remember very clearly when Dan came up with that idea and boarded that section. It was perfect, right off the bat, that Donald would be waiting for Flash . That became the North star for where all the comedy and character overlapping and pairings had to work. It’s so fun to see these characters together that have never shared the screen, and of course, who would Donald get the most pissed off about, waiting for the elevator? It had to be Flash.
CORREY: From my memory, that moment came a little later. We had the puppies, and we were using the puppies in a couple of different ways. And we always wanted Chernabog in the short, but we were stumped on how to do that. He was on our list on our whiteboard, but we were stumped about how to fit a character the size of a mountain inside of the studio. And then, Dan came up with that idea of the puppies sitting in their original form from the movie.
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