Back at home, Briar Rose is thrilled to tell her guardians she met a man and fell in love. They fight, attracting the attention of Maleficent's raven and revealing the location of Aurora. While she is out, Flora and Merryweather argue about the color of Aurora's ballgown. Rose asks Phillip to come to her cottage that evening. They instantly fall in love, unaware of being betrothed years ago. Rose at first is frightened at the sudden appearance of the stranger, but Philip soon puts her at ease.
He races to find the owner of the beautiful voice and is instantly struck by Rose's grace and beauty. While singing in the forest, Rose attracts the attention of Prince Phillip, now a handsome young man. Rose is friends with the animals of the forest and sings them a song, Once Upon a Dream. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, the three fairies ask Rose to gather berries in the forest so they can prepare a surprise party for her. Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, has grown into a beautiful teenage girl.
The fairies do not believe that will be enough to keep Aurora safe, and so they spirit baby Aurora away to a woodcutter's cottage in the forest until the day of her sixteenth birthday. King Stefan, still fearful for his daughter's life, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. Unfortunately, they are not strong enough to break it, but Merryweather uses her blessing to weaken the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will fall into a death-like sleep from which she can only be awakened by true love's kiss. King Stefan, Queen Leah, and the kingdom are horrified and beg the three good fairies to break the curse. Maleficent turns to leave, but when Queen Leah asks if she's offended, the evil fairy curses the princess, proclaiming that Aurora will grow in grace and beauty, but before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die, leaving everyone horrified about Aurora’s doomed fate. Before Merryweather is able to give her blessing, the evil fairy Maleficent appears, only to be told she was unwanted by the whole kingdom. Then the herald announces the arrival of the three good fairies called Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who have come to bless the child with gifts, beauty and song. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess, and at the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of Stefan's friend King Hubert, so that their kingdoms will always be united. The film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements.Īfter many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Disney's own Lady and the Tramp four years earlier. However, unlike the previous feature-films, this was the first Disney feature-film that did not have the same background animation material, but instead with new background animation material. Along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky's music composition was also popular in the film. The film's musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Bruns, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi, with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. It features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution.was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office the studio did not return to the genre until 30 years later, after Walt Disney died in 1966, with the release of The Little Mermaid (1989). Template:Infobox film Sleeping Beauty is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault.