Sleeping Beauty (1959 movie)

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Directed by	Supervising Director; Clyde Geronimi; Sequence Directors; Eric Larson; Wolfgang Reitherman; Les Clark
Written by	Erdman Penner
Story by	Milt Banta; Winston Hibler; Bill Peet; Joe Rinaldi; Ted Sears; Ralph Wright;
Based on	Sleeping Beauty; by Charles Perrault
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Mary Costa; Bill Shirley; Eleanor Audley; Verna Felton; Barbara Luddy; Barbara Jo Allen; Taylor Holmes; Bill Thompson;
Narrated by	Marvin Miller
Edited by	Roy M. Brewer, Jr.; Donald Halliday
Music by	George Bruns (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet)
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date	January 29, 1959;
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million
Box office	$51.6 million

Sleeping Beauty (1959) is an American-French animated movie produced by Walt Disney Productions and released to movie theaters by Buena Vista Distribution. It is based on the 1697 fairy tale "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" by Charles Perrault. The movie was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi. Additional story work was provided by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta.

The movie's musical score and songs are arrangements or adaptations of material from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Buena Vista Distribution released the movie to theaters on November 11, 1959. It was the first animated movie to be photographed in the Technirama widescreen process. The movie was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements.

Reception

The movie generated mixed reviews from critics. They thought the movie was slow-paced and lacked character development. Sleeping Beauty earned approximately $7.7 million in box office rentals.^[4] Its production costs totaled $6 million,^[5] making it the most expensive Disney movie to that date.^[6] The high production costs of the movie resulted in the company posting its first annual loss in a decade for fiscal year 1960,^[5] and many animators were fired.^[7] Even though it failed when it first came out, it made a lot of money during re-releases. After inflation, it’s the seventh highest grossing animated movie.

References

↑ Solomon 2014, p. 97.
↑ Thomas 1976, pp. 294–5.
↑ "Sleeping Beauty". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
↑ Barrier, Michael (2008). The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-520-25619-4.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Thomas, Bob (1976). Walt Disney: An American Original (1994 ed.). New York: Hyperion Press. pp. 294–295. ISBN 978-0-7868-6027-2.
↑ Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. New York.: Oxford University Press. pp. 554–559. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0.
↑ Norman, Floyd (August 18, 2008). "Toon Tuesday : Here's to the real survivors". Jim Hill Media. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2010.

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[FOOTNOTESolomon201497-1] Solomon 2014, p. 97.

[FOOTNOTEThomas1976294–5-2] Thomas 1976, pp. 294–5.

[boxofficemojo.com-3] "Sleeping Beauty". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 5, 2012.

[4] Barrier, Michael (2008). The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-520-25619-4.

[BobThomasWD-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Thomas, Bob (1976). Walt Disney: An American Original (1994 ed.). New York: Hyperion Press. pp. 294–295. ISBN 978-0-7868-6027-2.

[BarrierSleeping-6] Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. New York.: Oxford University Press. pp. 554–559. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0.

[7] Norman, Floyd (August 18, 2008). "Toon Tuesday : Here's to the real survivors". Jim Hill Media. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2010.

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