Elsa (Frozen) of the song "Let It Go", with critics frequently calling her a "powerhouse". Attempts were made as early as 1937 by Walt Disney to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen", into a film. The tale focuses on two children, one named Gerda, who served as the basis for Princess Anna, and the other named Kai, who is "cursed with negativity" after his heart is pierced with a shard of glass from an enchanted mirror and is later kidnapped by the Snow Queen. However, Disney struggled with creating a believable, multi-dimensional adaption of the fairy tale's title character,
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic is a television special that aired September 2, 2014, on ABC. The program tells the story of how Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2013 3D computer-animated film "Frozen" was created, and the unique impact it had on worldwide culture. On August 13, 2014, it was announced that the one-hour television special, titled "The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic", would air September 2, 2014, on ABC. It features interviews with some of the cast and the creative team of the film;