The Lion King (1994)

The animated film that started it all. Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, California, this unassuming stop-gap project grew to become a mythic phenomenon, setting record numbers for box-office sales and merchandising revenue around the world, and inspiring thousands of fans to build on its story with their own creativity.

Image Archive
Hundreds of high-quality screen images, clip art, and more!
Sounds & Music
Dialogue clips, MIDI songs, and CD track information.
Texts & Fan-Fiction
Essays, reviews, production notes, and hundreds of fan stories.
Video Clips
Video files of memorable scenes, and many more interesting movie files.
Character Profiles
Pictures and descriptions of all the Lion King characters and their roles in the story.

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The Lion King (1994)

Image Archive
Hundreds of high-quality screen images, clip art, and more!
Sounds & Music
Dialogue clips, MIDI songs, and CD track information.
Texts & Fan-Fiction
Essays, reviews, production notes, and hundreds of fan stories.
Video Clips
Video files of memorable scenes, and many more interesting movie files.
Character Profiles
Pictures and descriptions of all the Lion King characters and their roles in the story.

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The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998)

The long-awaited sequel. A direct-to-video production by Walt Disney Television Animation, Simba's Pride adds new characters and another chapter to the Circle of Life mythos begun in the original theatrical film.

The Lion King 1½ (2004)

The Circle of Life begins anew with a fresh, satiric retelling of the original film's story, from the comic perspective of the meerkat Timon and the warthog Pumbaa. A tribute to the grandeur of the original as much as it is a satire, this direct-to-video production (from Walt Disney TV Animation Australia) appeals to wistful nostalgia as much as to our funny bones.

The Lion King: The Broadway Musical

Premiering in Minneapolis in 1997, The Lion King: The Broadway Musical has found a permanent home as a fixture on 42nd Street, the heart of the theatre district on Times Square in New York. Numerous other productions have set up in other cities around the world to showcase Julie Taymor's revolutionary stage rendition of the original film's story.

Credits

Movie End Credits
Transcribed by Matt Robinson, this is the complete listing of all the people whose hard work and dedication brought The Lion King to the screen and gave so many people something to enjoy.

Foreign Language Voice Casts are also available.

This Archive would have been patently impossible without the help (acknowledged or not) of a great many people who did work of their own to make TLK resources accessible through the Web. Most of them know who they are, but for the benefit of readers of this Archive, here is my "official" acknowledgment of their contributions.

First of all, the Walt Disney Company for not shutting this site down. I know they know it exists, and I thank them very sincerely for understanding that this site is free publicity and can only benefit their financial and artistic success from The Lion King. I thank them for the use of their images, sounds, movies, and other material from their original site. I also thank Disney from the bottom of my heart for giving us TLK; I do believe the world is a richer place for it.
Paul Summers, tireless and thankless site admin and hardware benefactor through several incarnations of the lionking.org server. Truly one of the unsung heroes of the Lion King fandom.
Matt Robinson, who typed in the text of the Story from The Art of The Lion King and the HTML-formatted movie credits, and who has faithfully kept an eye on my coding and layout from Day 1.
Kevin C. Bissessar, who sent me several good reviews of TLK to include in the Text Files section, and for being a great friend since the site's early days.
For the contribution of the main text of the TLK Script (which I have edited since then), Phil "Leopold Stokowski" Pollard of JMU.
Marcus Aanerud, or "Raccoon Prince," who has contributed such things as high-quality clip-art images and QuickTime movies, reinforcing my claim to having the best in the digital TLK experience available here. :) A tireless warrior he is, and definitely deserving of accolades.
The Ivory Tower Trading Card Company and Skybox Trading Cards, whence come a large number of my image files.
For his inspiration and support, and for putting up with me as well as encouraging me through my sundry artistic endeavors, Sean Rabbitt, aka BigSimba.
For numerous fine-tuning suggestions on the script, without which it would be a far less complete and accurate document, Chris Stassen.
For the priceless contribution of a massive overhaul of the Sound Archive, Tom Rodriguez.
Myra Weber, a fellow Lion King web-meister, for her work in creating the animated GIFs from the Lion King Animated Storybook.
David Glover, for invaluable CSS expertise during the great site revamp of 2005.
James Venning of Vee Media for generously helping to host some of the movie files on his own unmetered server.
All the patrons of this site, visiting from alt.fan.lion-king and the TLK mailing list, and the loyal followers of The First Church of Simba, who have given me their valued support and comments throughout the life of the Archive. It would be nothing without you. Thank you.

The Lion King WWW Archive was created using pico, a UNIX text editor (for intensive design) and emacs, another text editor (for high-volume formulaic work).
Images were created using Adobe Photoshop for Windows and Macintosh, using Hewlett-Packard ScanJet scanners.

The servers running this archive, www.lionking.org, are dedicated IBM machines co-located in New York. They are 16-core Xeons at 2.93GHz running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 and Apache/2.4.57 (FreeBSD) OpenSSL/1.1.1t-freebsd mod_wsgi/4.9.2 Python/3.9, on a full-time trunk connection.

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