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New Orleans Based Disney Film

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Directors Ron Clements and John Musker were putting the finishing touches on nearly three years of work on Disney's New Orleans-set animated fairy tale, "The Princess and the Frog," when they noticed something was wrong.

Announced in early 2006, the project was being closely watched for all sorts of reasons. First, it would mark the venerable animation studio's return to traditional hand-drawn, 2-D animation. More significantly, it would also introduce the world to Disney's first African-American princess. And then there was the real-life setting ­-- New Orleans -- instead of some make-believe fairy-tale land.

While reviewing a key scene late in the film, however, Musker and Clements, the directing team behind such latter-day Disney classics as "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin," noticed a problem with one of the buildings in the movie.

It wasn't just any building, either: It was St. Louis Cathedral, one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.

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