![]() Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Lady and the Tramp (1955). The film's tapestry-esque design was developed by Eyvind Earle, who drew inspiration from the pre-Renaissance European art, while its musical score and songs, composed by George Bruns, were based on the 1889 The Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It took nearly a decade and $6 million to produce the film, which made it the most expensive Disney animated feature at that time. Walt Disney first considered making Sleeping Beauty in the late 1930s, but it was not placed into production until the early 1950s. Featuring the voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson, the film's plot follows a young princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from a prick on a spindle of the spinning wheel, but was saved by the three good fairies, who altered the curse so that the princess instead fell into a deep sleep to be awakened by true love's kiss. ![]() ![]() The production was supervised by Clyde Geronimi, and the film's sequences were directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale of the same title, it is the 16th Disney animated feature film. Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. $51.6 million (United States and Canada)
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