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TIL Beauty and the Beast was one of the first feature-length animated films to use CGI, prominently exhibited in the background and sweeping camera of the ballroom sequence. The ballroom's dimensions read 72ft high, 184ft long and 126ft wide, with 28 windows and a dome that measures 86 by 61 feet.

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