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Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Clyde Geronimi .

Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringGeorge BrunsNominated
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Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 13, 2017 From The Stop Button

Seven credited writers on Sleeping Beauty and none of them could figure out any dialogue to give the prince. Though, notwithstanding some cute banter between the three fairies, there?s not much good dialogue in Sleeping Beauty anyway. Villain Maleficent doesn?t even get any. Eleanor Audley?s great i... Read full article


The Visual Splendor of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

By Rick29 on Apr 17, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

When originally released in 1959, Sleeping Beauty was a major critical and financial disappointment for Walt Disney. The film cost a then-hefty $6 million and failed to break even on its original release in the U.S. Critics were unkind, too, calling it ponderous and lacking in memorable characters. ... Read full article


The Visual Splendor of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

By Rick29 on Apr 17, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

When originally released in 1959, Sleeping Beauty was a major critical and financial disappointment for Walt Disney. The film cost a then-hefty $6 million and failed to break even on its original release in the U.S. Critics were unkind, too, calling it ponderous and lacking in memorable characters. ... Read full article


Sleeping Beauty (1959)

By Beatrice on Nov 26, 2016 From Flickers in Time

Sleeping Beauty Directed by Clyde Geronimi Written by Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler et al from the story by Charles Perrault 1959/USA Walt Disney Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Chorus: [singing] For true love conquers all! This might have been the first Disney cartoon I sa... Read full article


Sleeping Beauty

By Alyson on Jun 17, 2016 From The Best Picture Project

In 1959, after nearly ten years in production and Disneyland?s castle named in its honor, Disney?s Sleeping Beauty was finally released. ?It was the first film animated in 70mm and a true feat of artistic achievement. ?To this day, many consider it to be the visual high point of animation in the gol... Read full article


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Quotes from

Merryweather: It looks awful.
Flora: That's because it's on you, dear.


Flora: Good gracious! Who left the mop running?
Merryweather: Stop, mop!


Fauna, Flora, Merryweather: [Chasing Aurora up the stairs to the spinning wheel] Rose! Rose! Don't touch ANYTHING!


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Live actors in costume served as models for the animators. The role of Prince Phillip was modeled by Ed Kemmer, who had played Commander Buzz Corry on television's Space Patrol five years before Sleeping Beauty was released. For the final battle sequence Kemmer was photographed on a wooden buck. All the live actors' performances were later screened for the animators' reference.
Various movements from The Sleeping Beauty ballet underwent some reworking for the Disney film. The opening song (Hail to the Princess Aurora) is actually the ballet's final, grandiose movement. Also, the three fairies' theme is based on "The Silver Fairy movement," which, in its original form, is barely a minute long.
Only one other Disney animated film was shot in the same format of Technirama and that was The Black Cauldron.
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