A hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument incorporating a wooden wheel rotated by a simple shaft connected to a hand crank. Sound is produced by the action of the rim of the rotating wheel rubbing across the string(s) as the wheel is turned. hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument incorporating a wooden wheel rotated by a simple shaft connected to a hand crank. Sound is produced by the action of the rim of the rotating wheel rubbing across the string(s) as the wheel is turned.
Beauty and the Beast is an unabashed live-action/CGI homage to the 1991 animated film that inspired it (in terms of both its story and visual style), but incorporates enough fresh material into the mix to stand on its own â if not as firmly as, say, Disney and director Jon Favreauâs live-action The Jungle Book before it.
Get the 411 on Disney BluRays YouTube. The title song of the 1991 Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, won the Oscar for Best Original Song as well as Best Original Score.