Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 Disney animated movie in which a girl from a small town ends up at a castle where a beast lives after she follows her father to the castle. The town is set in France. The costumes and the buildings and houses in the village in the movie are quite similar to those in traditional French villages when this movie is set.

    The costumes on the villagers are quite realistic. They can be seen wearing similar headdresses, aprons and dresses that would have been traditionally worn by French villagers in that sort of setting. Belle's hair is slight less accurate though. Most French woman in the time that this movie is set would have worn their hair in very large and elaborate ways. Many would have worn large, powdered white wigs where as Belle's hair is simply brown and not extravagant.


 











The buildings in the village in Beauty and the Beast are quite similar to those in a traditional French town. The buildings in the village are 'half-timbered' which is basically when a wooden structure is built and filled and then you can still see some of the wooden frame on the outside of the house. This was used in traditional villages in France in this time period so the movie is quite accurate for that.