Location from The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Walt Disney Animation Studios
Quasimodo's entire world — a high stone room of enormous bells, carved miniatures, and twenty years of longing pressed into every surface.
The bell tower smells of rope oil, wood shavings, and stone cold from the wind. When the bells ring — every hour, heavier at the Angelus — the floor vibrates and the sound is physical, a wave that passes through everything. Quasimodo is immune to it. Everyone else would be deafened within minutes. This is a space of contradiction: magnificent views and total confinement. Total freedom of movement within it, total imprisonment beyond it. The miniature Paris on the floor is the most heartbreaking object in the film — a world Quasimodo built to be near the one he cannot enter.
The bell tower occupies the highest levels of Notre Dame's south tower — a large, open-sided stone chamber where the great bells hang on thick wooden frames. The floor is rough stone, scattered with wood shavings from Quasimodo's carving. Ropes loop down from the bells in thick braids. The open arched windows look out over all of Paris: the river, the bridges, the rooftops, the Festival grounds below. In the center of the floor sits Quasimodo's scale model of the city — an extraordinary, obsessive recreation of Paris built from scavenged materials over years.
Also known as: The Tower, Notre Dame Bell Tower