How many animated feature films were produced by Disney by the time the song "The Bells of Notre Dame" was featured?
The Bells of Notre Dame "The Bells of Notre Dame" is a song from the 1996 Disney film, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", composed by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. It is sung at the beginning of the film by the clown-like gypsy, Clopin. It is set mainly in the key of D minor. (However, the movie is edited up a semitone, therefore playing this piece in E-flat minor.) The song bears some similarity to the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe, especially the repetition of the word "bells" during the crescendo. The song is reprised at the end of the film.
Charlotte's Web (1973 film) Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical drama film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions and based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White. The film, like the book, is about a pig named Wilbur who befriends an intelligent spider named Charlotte who saves him from being slaughtered. Released to theaters by Paramount Pictures, "Charlotte's Web" features a song score of music and lyrics written by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously written music for family films like "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1967), and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). It is the first of only three Hanna-Barbera features not to be based upon one of their famous television cartoons, "Heidi's Song" (1982) and "Once Upon a Forest" (1993) being the other two.