Belle's Tales of Friendship

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Belle's Tales of Friendship
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Directed by	Jimbo Mitchell
Written by	Alice Brown Richard Cray
Produced by	David W. King
Starring	Lynsey McLeod Paige O'Hara Robby Benson Kirsten Storms
Production companies	Walt Disney Home Video Walt Disney Television Animation
Distributed by	Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release date	August 17, 1999 (1999-08-17)
Running time	70 minutes
Countries	United States Philippines Taiwan
Language	English

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Tales of Friendship is a 1999 American direct-to-video live action/animated fantasy film. It was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation as the prequel to Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and the fourth and final installment in Beauty and the Beast films. It was also released to help promote the syndicated television series, Sing Me a Story with Belle, for which a live-action Belle tells stories from Disney cartoons such as The Wise Little Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Morris the Midget Moose and Babes in the Woods with Belle narrating. The film stars Lynsey McLeod who continues portraying Belle in live-action form.^[1][2]

It also stars Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, David Ogden Stiers, and Jerry Orbach who reprise their roles as Belle, Beast, Cogsworth, and Lumiere, respectively, in the animated form, in the short film, Mrs. Potts' Party which later was also used for Belle's Magical World. The film was released on VHS on August 17, 1999.