Film Forum

U.S., 1959
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, Les Clark
With the voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Based on story by Charles Perrault
Approx. 75 min. DCP.

SLEEPING BEAUTY was the most ambitious animated feature Walt Disney ever undertook. While returning to familiar fairy tale territory, he wanted the film to look and sound different from anything the studio had ever done before. So it was filmed in widescreen Technirama and recorded in stereophonic sound: its songs were adapted from the works of Tchaikovsky, and it was designed, in large part, by the modern artist Eyvind Earle.  

Reviews

“The masterpiece of the Disney Studios' postwar style.”
– Dave Kerr, Chicago Reader