What Mulan stuff was on the Disney animation studio tour?
My friend Marc Hairston took the tour in October 1997. His report: The first room there is the one with a big storyboard set up. It’s the scene where Mulan is meeting with the matchmaker and trying to recite the proper attributes for a good wife. Mulan has written all this as a “crib sheet” on her arm between her wrist and elbow. The matchmaker takes Mulan by the arm and smears the writing half way through and leaves Mulan to fluster her way through the rest of the list. Obviously, this is part of the set up in the early part of the movie. They have a little room to the left (as you enter) where they have the little statuettes of all the characters. In the room to your right just before you start the main tour, they have some beautiful background paintings and scenes from the film. Once inside you see the usual group of cubicles with animators working away on drawings. Then they showed us a trailer (about four minutes) of Mulan. We saw some of the battle sequences, the scene where Mula
