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| rdfs:label | - Storybook Opening
- Storybook opening
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| rdfs:comment | - The storybook opening is a recurring theme in several of Disney's films, almost always used as an opening sequence. A similar trait is used for the closings, known as storybook closings.
- A common device for starting a story, especially fairy tales, is to begin with a book opening. The Opening Narration goes on as normal, but as it goes on the book opens and we fade to see the story itself being played out. Just as if it came from the book itself. Usually the story will finish with the book being closed. The Trope Maker here is the Disney Animated Canon, which has used it since the very beginning with Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. A subtrope of Framing Device. A sister trope of the one where the book is shown as it is being written. Examples of Storybook Opening include:
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| abstract | - The storybook opening is a recurring theme in several of Disney's films, almost always used as an opening sequence. A similar trait is used for the closings, known as storybook closings.
- A common device for starting a story, especially fairy tales, is to begin with a book opening. The Opening Narration goes on as normal, but as it goes on the book opens and we fade to see the story itself being played out. Just as if it came from the book itself. Usually the story will finish with the book being closed. The Trope Maker here is the Disney Animated Canon, which has used it since the very beginning with Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. A subtrope of Framing Device. A sister trope of the one where the book is shown as it is being written. Examples of Storybook Opening include:
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