 Production of Beauty and the Beast was to be completed on a compressed timeline of two years rather than the traditional four @-@ year Disney Feature Animation production schedule ; this was due to the loss of production time spent developing the earlier Purdum version of the film . Most of the production was done at the main Feature Animation studio , housed in the Air Way facility in Glendale , California . A smaller team at the Disney @-@ MGM Studios theme park in Lake Buena Vista , Florida assisted the California team on several scenes , particularly the " Be Our Guest " number . 
