Princess Aurora is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, "because she fills her father and mother's lives with sunshine." Everyone was invited to the christening ceremony and Baby Aurora is betrothed to Young Prince Phillip, the son of her dad's friend who rules a neighboring kingdom, King Hubert. However, the subsequent re-releases proved massively successful, and critics and audiences have since hailed it as a beautiful animated classic.
Along with the mixed critical reception, it was also noted to be the film that caused Walt Disney to lose interest in the animation medium. The film was originally a failure and did not make up the huge cost of the film. It spent nearly the entire decade of the 1950s in production: the story work began in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, animation production took from 1953 until 1958, and the stereophonic musical score, drawn almost entirely from the ballet Spyashchaya krasavitsa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was recorded in the same year animation production finished. It is also the first animated feature to be shot in Super Technirama 70, one of many large-format widescreen processes (only one more animated film, The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 70). The 16th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale (after his death, the studio returned to the genre with The Little Mermaid), as well as the last cel animated feature from Disney to be inked by hand before the studio switched to using the xerography process. Source Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Film Distribution. One Hundred and One Dalmatians External links Official website