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TITLE Cinderella GENRE Animation YEAR 1950 DIRECTOR Clyde Geronimi MAIN CHARACTERS AND ACTORS Cinderella (Ilene Woods), Lady Tremaine (Eleanor Audley), Fairy Godmother (Verna Felton) PLOT SUMMARY

In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, led by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother; the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, are fairy tale history.
STUDENTS CRITICAL RESPONSE I enjoyed this movie because it was one of the original Walt Disney movies. It seems like every person you ask no matter what age knows the story of Cinderella. Although it is over sixty years old, the animation in the movie is still very good. THREE SCENES IN DETAIL In one scene, Cinderella is playing with the mice and she sees one shy one hiding. One of the other mice pulls him out by telling him that Cinderella is nice. Cinderella dresses him in a tight shirt and shoes and a hat. She then names him Octavius, Gus for short, and he accepts the name.

In one scene, Cinderella is called into her evil stepmothers room. When she enters, her two stepsisters claim that shes going to be in big trouble. When Cinderella attempts to speak she is rudely interrupted multiple times. The stepmother gives Cinderella an enormous lift of chores to do. She finishes by telling her to give Lucius the cat a bath, and we see Lucius extremely negative expression.

In a scene near the end, a man is asking the stepmother if all the women in the house have tried on the glass slipper. She says yes but Cinderella asks to let her try it on even though she receives much objection. While walking over to help her try on the slipper, the stepmother trips the man and it shatters. However, Cinderella has the other slipper and it fits perfectly.