Which division of Disney produced the film?

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Beauty and the Beast was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation.

At the time, Walt Disney Feature Animation was Disney’s division responsible for developing and producing animated feature films. The film was made primarily at the studio’s animation facility in Glendale, California, with additional work contributed by the Disney-MGM Studios satellite operation in Florida.

Walt Disney Pictures was the film’s Disney distribution and branding banner, not the animation division that made it. Pixar Animation Studios helped develop Disney’s CAPS computer-animation system, which Beauty and the Beast used, but Pixar did not produce the film. DreamWorks Animation was a separate rival studio and was not involved.

The film’s production marked an important moment for Disney animation. It blended hand-drawn character animation with computer-assisted compositing, most famously in the sweeping ballroom sequence. Its success followed The Little Mermaid and helped establish the Disney Renaissance, a highly influential run of animated features during the 1990s.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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