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Sleeping Beauty
| Home | Cinderella | Little Mermaid | Snow White | Walt Disney |During the 1950's, many critics were praising the UPA studios for their stylistic experimentation, while accusing Disney animation of being too "old fashioned". In response, Walt Disney planned his masterpiece, a film that would merge modern design sensibilities with state-of-the-art wide-screen and stereophonic sound technology. Without question, Sleeping Beauty is Disney's lushest feature, with an unprecedented attention to detail and bold stylization in the use of color, character, and background design.
Walt Disney in his quest for quality, allowed his top artists: Marc Davis, John Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, Eric Cleworth, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston and John Sibley, extra time to pencil test and refine their scenes until they were absolutely perfect. Sleeping Beauty was the last animated feature to receive Walt's full attention, but since his time was also required in Anaheim for the building of Disneyland, he was often away from the studio for weeks at a time.
To keep busy, animators who were waiting for approvals often did their own in-betweening and preliminary clean-up on their scenes. These delays and Disney's unrelenting attention to detail ended up driving the budget up to an unheard-of amount of six million dollars. Combined with the cost overruns of Disneyland, the film drove the studio very close to bankruptcy, but the effort and sacrifice was worthwhile. Overall Sleeping Beauty stands as an impressive achievement, displaying a level of refinement and sophistication that no animated feature has ever surpassed.
Sleeping Beauty Facts:
1. It took about six years to make Sleeping Beauty, a long time compared to other films.
2. Princess Aurora was influenced by Audrey Hepburn, a film star of the day.
3. There is a definite "break" in the film. Once Aurora learns her true identity and Phillip decides to run away from his arranged marriage, you may notice that the colors change slightly. Also Aurora and Phillip do not have any more spoken lines after that point.Click Here to see images from the movie!
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