Sleeping Beauty (1959) | |
| Director(s) | Clyde Geronimi |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Disney |
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Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Clyde Geronimi .
Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | George Bruns | Nominated |
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Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 13, 2017 From The Stop ButtonSeven 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 CafeWhen 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 CafeWhen 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 TimeSleeping 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 ProjectIn 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
Flora: Yes we can, and we must!
Merryweather: Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick, a spindle should your finger prick... a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, when true love's kiss, the spell shall break.
Chorus: [singing] For true love conquers all!
Flora: [Fauna cries at Aurora's and Phillip's wedding] Why Fauna, what's the matter, dear?
Fauna: Oh... I just love happy endings.
Flora: Yes. I do t...
[Sees Aurora's dress, gasps]
Flora: Oh... *blue*!
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Facts about
Famed Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones worked on the film briefly when Termite Terrace closed temporarily during the late 1950s. He found the atmosphere at Walt Disney Productions oppressive because everything anyone did there had to be approved by Walt Disney before, during, and after the process of production. He was more than happy when Warner's animation department reopened, where he stayed until it closed again in 1964.
Shot on a 35mm Technirama double-frame negative (which is as big as two regular Academy frames joined together) running horizontally through the animation camera, with each frame photographed three times (once with a red filter, once with a blue filter, and once with a green filter). This negative was then printed on both CinemaScope-compatible anamorphic film and Super Technirama 70mm film, the first film released in Super Technirama 70.
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