Running from Thursday 18 November 2010 to Tuesday 26 April 2011, the Australian Centre for Moving Image are hosting a very magical exhibition which showcases some of the amazing art of Disney. Curator and Creative Director of the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Lella Smith has hand picked some of the most memorable and historical pieces of Disney through the last 80-years.

As soon as you walk down into the exhibition, you are treated to a variety of videos and origianl art pieces of those who worked for Walt Disney. As a result, they created some of the world’s most popular and endearing animated fairy tale movies. From concept art to maquettes and movie cells, not only is the viewer treated to an inside glance into seven different Disney movies but also the history of fairy tales.

The exhibition is broken up into 8 sections that include an introduction into fairy tales, Snow White and Seven Dwarves (1937), Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Best (1991), The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Tangled (2010). For every piece of art, there is a little bit of history behind such as the person who helped create it or why it was needed for the movie. It’s these small touches that makes this exhibition come to life

It’s an interesting and fascinating walk down memory lane to see the basic hand sketches from Snow White and Seven Dwarves or to see Disney’s latest movie Tangled come to life with computer graphics. Although Tangled still needed hand drawn techqniues to create the movie, it also faced its own challenges such as creating the 27 metres of realstic blonde hair of Rapuzenl and the amusing facial features Flynn Rider.

Whether you’re a student of art or a lover of Disney movies, this is one exhibition that you should not miss and has something for people of all ages.

For more information, please visit http://www.acmi.net.au/dreamscometrue.aspx.