From Hans to 《冰雪奇缘》 Will Document 70 Years Leading to the Making of 《冰雪奇缘》 

While we continue to see documentary projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo about movies that never happened, here’s one about a movie that did. It just took a long time. And was a lot different than was originally intended.

currently crowdfunding (goal: $17.5k) that plans to follow 70 years in the making of what would become Disney’s smash hit

The animated feature’s origins go back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen,” and beginning in the late 1930s, this was a story that Walt Disney himself wanted to bring to the big screen. Even up until this decade,

was almost something completely different. Elsa was to be a villain, for starters, and this new doc will showcase some of her potentially more wicked designs.

Blu-ray, you’re half correct. And the Kickstarter campaign trailer for this doc actually features a lot of footage clearly pulled directly from an extra on the

D’Frosted – Disney’s Journey from Hans Christian Andersen to Frozen

But I’m sure filmmaker and cinema studies grad Bradley Bjornstad is just using that material as a jumping off point. He does intend to make a feature, and he does plan to interview historians and people involved in the making of

to provide a fuller experience of those seven decades of idea after idea, including development of a Disneyland ride in the 1970s, which would have been weird not being based on a movie.

I would love to see Bjornstad make something that’s not just a companion to

, the 2012 doc about the decades-long animated project of Richard Williams that eventually became

. That’s the story of an attempt that was finished but in a bad way, whereas

Bjornstad is apparently interested in looking at what might have been with movie projects, whether they turned out okay or not. A while back, I wrote about his previous crowdfunding effort, which involved a documentary about the original vision for

and the creation of a new cut of the movie based on that vision. It was a bit too ambitious and didn’t wind up successfully funded.

Will From Hans to Frozen turn out better? We’ll see. For now, here’s the campaign trailer followed by

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Rather than a reject, Christopher Campbell is a film school dropout. But he has since gotten a master’s degree in cinema studies and has been blogging about movies since 2005. Earlier, he reviewed films for a zine (a what?) that you could buy at Tower Records (a what?). He is married with two children.

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