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	Sleeping Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sleeping Beauty ("La Belle au Bois dormant") is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose Tales").
		Sleeping Beauty was the first ballet that impresario Sergei Diaghilev ever saw, he later recorded in his memoirs, and also the first that ballerinas Anna Pavlova and Galina Ulanova ever saw, and the ballet that introduced the Russian dancer Rudolph Nureyev to European audiences.
		The story of the sleeping beauty was loosely the basis for the erotic novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleeping_Beauty (2006 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sleeping Beauty is also the first animated feature to be shot in Super Technirama 70, one of many large-format widescreen 70mm film processes (only one more animated film, The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 70).
		The film was re-released theatrically in 1970, 1979, and 1986 and was first released on both VHS and Laserdisc that same year under the Classics collection, becoming the first Disney Classics video to be digitally processed in Hi-Fi stereo.
		Then the film underwent an extensive digital restoration in 1997, and that version was released to both VHS and Laserdisc again as part of the Masterpiece collection, and in 2003 was released to DVD in a 2-disc "Special Edition" that included both the original widescreen version and a pan and scan version as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_(1959_film) (2124 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sleeping Beauty tells the story of a king and queen whose baby is cursed by a malevolent witch with the promise that before the child's 16th birthday she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die!
		Sleeping Beauty was the final entry in Disney's original fairytale-princess trilogy, which also included Snow White (1937) and Cinderella.
		Sleeping Beauty was also the last of the Disney films to use hand-inked cells, and the last film that Disney personally supervised.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2855&buy=closed&PID=10109554&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (947 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959)
		Most of these films were released at one or two year intervals, but the gap between Lady And The Tramp and Sleeping Beauty was by Disney standards a whopping four years.
		Secondly, the fact that this film took a long time to eventuate indicates the fact that in many ways this was the film that defined a new direction in the approach to animated features by the Walt Disney Company.
		Film artefacts were hardly a problem either, which is as to be expected with such a superb restoration job.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3324&SID=2&PID=223461 (4045 words)

	SparkNotes: Sleeping Beauty: Context
		Sleeping Beauty was Walt Disney Pictures’ sixteenth animated feature and, at the time, the most expensive of his films to produce.
		Disney chose to adapt Tchaikovsky’s music for “The Sleeping Beauty” ballet, and in choosing to draw from such a grand composer for his seemingly simple family film, Disney declared the timelessness and artistic merits of Sleeping Beauty and brashly placed it in a canonical tradition.
		Recently, Sleeping Beauty became the second film to receive a thorough computer restoration, in which a team of forty computer technicians pored over all 108,000 frames of the film to clean and refurbish the colors.
	www.sparknotes.com /film/sleepingbeauty/context.html (1210 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959) review by the Jackass Critics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The film was shot in the ultra-widescreen "Technirama 70" format, and this widescreen aspect elevates the sweeping grandeur of the film.
		The film has been letterboxed at 2.40:1 and the transfer is enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs, and is THX certified.
		Sleeping Beauty is based on the classic fairy-tale of the same name.
	www.jackasscritics.com /movie.php?movie_key=281 (2078 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition) - JeffreyKern.com - DVD Reviewer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sleeping Beauty was the last fairy tale to be produced by Walt Disney before he passed away in 1966.
		Sleeping Beauty was an incredible undertaking by all involved, and the result is an astonishing accomplishment.
		Not only is Sleeping Beauty a timeless family-friendly story, but the kids will enjoy all the fun extras, and the feature-rich content will definitely please the adults.
	www.jeffreykern.com /AVF/sleeping_beauty_se.htm (2177 words)

	DVD Review of Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition - DVDtoons! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was no surprise that “Sleeping Beauty” could be released as a 2-disc set in the US as it was already released as a collector’s edition LD with some bonus material and in 2002 France received a 2-disc treatment.
		The next release was “Beauty and the Beast”, which was received with mediocre interest as there seemed to have been some errors in the transfer and alterations made to the original film.
		When “Sleeping Beauty” first opened it was not a financial success (although the DVD documentary does not mention this).
	www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/232 (3479 words)

	SLEEPING BEAUTY - SPECIAL EDITION (2-DISC SET) DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sleeping Beauty is a movie in which you hear the phrase "to Hell," in which magic is not powerful enough to save one from mortality: the good-fairy troika of Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather cannot lift Maleficent's curse, only swap Aurora's death for Aurora's slumber.
		The film's supple verdancy translates well to the small-screen, the green palette a multi-tiered symbolic gesture (in Maleficent's sickly skin is mirrored Aurora's youthful naiveté; in the lush forest, Aurora's youthful abundance) that had for many years lost its potency to celluloid degradation.
		The film's teaser, 1959 theatrical, and 1995 re-release trailers, the latter of which sells Sleeping Beauty as a breathless action film--compellingly.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/sleepingbeauty.htm (898 words)

	Sleeping Beauty / **** (1959)
		Those were Disney's words for "Sleeping Beauty" when it premiered in Hollywood on January 29, 1959, and like most of Disney's words, they are spoken with the absolute truth.
		"Sleeping Beauty," his 16th animated film, is an exquisite, elegant, and virtually stunning landmark of animation; a film so charming, memorable, and beautiful that it has been hailed as the most incomparable film in the animated genre.
		Up until the recent few years, "Sleeping Beauty" was actually considered one of the few Disney 'failures.' That is, a poor box-office success.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Cinema/4069/reviews/classics/sleepingbeauty.html (965 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959)
		Disney films of the 1940s like Bambi (1942) and Fantasia (1940) achieved dazzling artistic heights through Disney's willingness to experiment with the animated form and see just where they could take it to.
		Most noticeably the film concatenates the entire fairy-tale into the space of a single day rather than a hundred years - the fairies put the kingdom to sleep, all but the prince, who then rushes back to save Sleeping Beauty.
		The prince does get to fight his way through a forest of thorns to get to Sleeping Beauty but this is not something that has grown up during her century-long sleep but rather merely something that Maleficent has magically thrown up to impede his path.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/sleepingbeauty59.htm (754 words)

	Thomas Hibbs on Sleeping Beauty on DVD on National Review Online
		Disney's restored DVD version of the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty is worthy of note, not just because it provides a welcome contrast to the sort of thoughtless mediocrity that kids now typically endure at the local metroplex.
		At Disney, the original plans for Sleeping Beauty emerged as early as 1952, yet it was not completed and released until 1959.
		Thus the film, which has the structure of a classic Shakespearean comedy, moves toward an integration of arrangement and consent, politics, and personal affection, the high (the royal) and the low (the peasant).
	www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment091203b.asp (800 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sleeping Beauty at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This film, from 1959, was the culmination of Disney's animation art during its classic phase.
		Sleeping Beauty, based on the classic fairytale, follows the basic outlines of the story.
		This is interrupted by Beauty's need to return to her hidden life as princess where, as predicted, Malificent works her evil magic.
	www.epinions.com /content_116534775428 (1044 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sleeping Beauty [1959]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky.
		The Disney tale of Sleeping Beauty, the beautiful Princess, who is destined to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep.
		Film and computers weren't brought together well into the 80s at least, yet some of the animation in this film is worthy of being in a modern Disney cartoon.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TBRH (1879 words)

	Shannon's Sleeping Beauty Page
		Strangely, I didn't actually see the film until I was 11 years old (and this was off of a friend's pirated tape).
		I finally saw Sleeping Beauty in the theatre in its full glory on March 28, 1986 - I was 16.
		Disclaimer: Sleeping Beauty and its characters are the property of The Walt Disney Company and are protected by federal copyright and trademark laws.
	www.medievalcottage.com /sbpage.html (379 words)

	Sleeping Beauty Ballet Timeline - Dance Resources from Artslynx
		Dress rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty is attended by The Tsar and his court.
		Serge Diaghilev revives the ballet for The Ballet Russe as The Sleeping Princess at The Alhambra Theatre in London.
		Sleeping Beauty is revived by Sergeyev in a two act form for The Vic-Wells (later re-named The Sadler's Wells Ballet) in London.
	www.artslynx.org /dance/beauty.htm (1162 words)

	Sleeping Beauty (1959) Special Edition DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It would utilize a heavily stylized form of artistry and would be one of the first animated films created for a super-wide scope in theaters.
		“Sleeping Beauty Ink and Paint Game” is a dull affair that allows players to pick a character from the film, and proceed to color them by choosing the proper hues.
		In the style of the virtual galleries on Snow White and Beauty and the Beast’s DVDs, a humungous collection of stills are archived through the halls of Sleeping Beauty’s castle.
	www.ultimatedisney.com /sleepingbeauty.html (2230 words)

	Disney Archives \| "Sleeping Beauty" Movie History
		n spectacular style, the film recounts the simple story of Princess Aurora, who is cursed by the evil fairy, Maleficent, to die at the age of 16 by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel.
		It is only with the aid of Prince Phillip that Maleficent, transformed into a towering, fire-breathing dragon, is destroyed, and the Sleeping Beauty is awakened by his kiss.
		Though not an initial box-office success, the film has proven to be a unique asset, with popular reissues in 1970, 1979, and 1986, and a release on home video also in 1986.
	disney.go.com /vault/archives/movies/sleeping/sleeping.html (287 words)

	General Information about Sleeping Beauty
		Estimate of cost: 6 million dollars (1959) At the time, this was the highest (and unheard of) cost ever for an animated film.
		The film's backgrounds were done in an radical angular style, based on medieval art, to give it a medieval atmosphere.
		The film is not an action film, comedy film or a "kids" film, but is more a romance film that happens to be animated.
	www.radix.net /~koalatek/sbinfo.html (555 words)

	Watching Superb Movies On The Big Screen in Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the film was over, audience members could talk to the celebrities of the evening, and watch clips from a special edition DVD of "Sleeping Beauty".
		However, this being the 40th anniversary of the original release, it is notable to point out that the film received some freshening up from Sony and Robert A. Harris, including a DTS soundtrack.
		Cinerama films were supposed to run at the Dome, but the format was essentially dead by the time the theatre opened in 1963.
	www.in70mm.com /news/2002/los_angeles/super_movies.htm (1887 words)

	Vintage Sleeping Beauty
		Notice the strong resemblance to Audrey Hepburn, who's graceful beauty was used as a reference in the styling of the princess.
		This sleeping court scene was painted by Eyvind Earle and used in Sleeping Beauty Castle, a small book published to promote the Sleeping Beauty walk-through at Disneyland.
		The artists who worked on Sleeping Beauty were looking at manuscripts such as this one for inspiration for their film.
	www.medievalcottage.com /sbvintage.html (536 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		Beauty Awakes In L.A. Disney will re-release its classic 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty in a restored print of the original 70mm Technirama version, along with a series of shorts, for a two-week run beginning Aug. 22 at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, Variety reported.
		On opening night, a "making-of" panel will discuss the film, its six-year creation and its place in animation history, the trade paper reported.
		The film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials wants to take religion, the Big Bad of the books, out of the equation.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-08/02/09.00.film (187 words)

	Sleeping Beauty on the Woods
		The Beauty asleep for 100 years and waken up by a charming prince's kiss may also be seen as a metaphore: numbness of nature during Winter time and its revival in Spring.
		The fairy godmothers have given all qualities to the Princess, typical of the 18th century: beauty, mind, grace, talent in dancing and singing...
		Notice that the topic of a magic sleeping and awakening by a kiss is also present in Snow White written by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm.
	www.ricochet-jeunes.org /eng/biblio/books/sleeping.html (678 words)

	Film Fun Facts
		Sleeping Beauty Castle was the first attraction to open before the movie.
		However, there is no way possible for him not to have fallen with her because he was right by her head and she broke off too much of the path.
		Eleanor Audley, the voice of the Madam Leota in the Haunted Mansion, is also the voice of the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella, and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty.
	www.oitc.com /Disney/Movies/Secrets/SleepingBeauty.html (260 words)

	Hidden Mickeys in Sleeping Beauty (1959)
		In Sleeping Beauty, the moment the storybook closes and the movie begins with the people marching in the crowd, there is a man walking with a stick.
		In the movie Sleeping Beauty there is indeed a man at the beginning carrying a stick with Mickey ears on it.
		Right after they give Sleeping Beauty her crown and leave the room outside the room where Fauna and Merrywether are sitting on a bench there is a carpet right above them.
	www.oitc.com /Disney/Movies/SleepingBeauty.html (1609 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Sleeping Beauty
		In the film's sharp and jagged animations and startling use of moving cutouts, Earle and Armitage's crew of animators and painters evoke an expressionistic netherworld influenced by numerous Gothic, Persian and Medieval sources.
		The familiar story concerns a 16-year-old beauty, Princess Aurora, who dies when she pricks her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel and is subsequently revived by the prince charming she was destined to marry.
		Fans of the film will most appreciate Armitage's revelation of the film's aesthetic influences (who knew that Diego Rivera's famous Mexican murals would have their own effect on the film?).
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=209 (780 words)

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