Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is considered one of Disney's most artistically beautiful films, and the new Platinum Edition 2 Disc DVD release is a fitting new polishing of the Disney gem. The story is about Princess Aurora, who was cursed as a baby by the evil witch Maleficent due to the fact that she was not invited to the christening. Fated to an eternal sleep upon reaching the age of 16, she is given somewhat of a reprieve by one of the Good Fairies who bestows upon Aurora the blessing of being reawakened by true love's kiss. The 3 Good Fairies (Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna) take Aurora into the woods as a baby and raise her as Briar Rose in order to keep her away from Maleficent, hopefully avoiding the curse in the first place. However, on the crest of her 16th birthday, Aurora happens to meet Prince Phillip and naturally falls in love. Neither knows the true identity of the other and that their kingdoms have already decreed that they marry each other. When she is returned to her parents, the King & Queen, Aurora is upset that she cannot marry her boyfriend from the woods, and instead, must marry a Prince she has not met (as far as she knows). Maleficent finds the Princess and carries out her original curse. Can Prince Philip save the Princess with true love's kiss? The film looks and sounds spectacular. Shot in Super Technirama 70, the widescreen (2.55:1 enhanced for 16x9 TVs) film has been restored using state-of-the-art technology, and will fill up your speakers with its 5.1 enhanced home theater mix. For purists, the restored original theater track is also included. Either way you choose, Mary Costa (the voice of Aurora) sounds incredible. It would be hard to imagine anyone else vocalizing the Princess with such warmth and beauty. Eleanor Audley also deserves kudos for her vocalization of the evil Maleficent. She is definitely one of the most scary and memorable Disney characters. This project was special to Walt; it was the last feature based on a fairy-tale (until 1989's "Little Mermaid"). Since the studio had already done a similar tale with "Snow White," Walt wanted to make it different by adding a classical music inspired Tchaikovsky score and giving the film a less cartoony and more artistic visual representation. Breaking all box-office records, this film succeeded on all levels. And the extras...wow! On Disc One, in addition to the feature, you get: *Music & More: "Once Upon A Dream" music video performed by Hannah Montana's Emily Osment, who updates the song with a pop rock beat * Disney Song Selection: Instantly access your favorite songs from the movie * Backstage Disney includes audio commentary for the film (John Lasseter, film critic Leonard Maltin, and Disney animator Andreas Déja), Princess Fun Facts (pop-up trivia fact option while watching the movie), "Grand Canyon" short (1959 Oscar winner for best short subject film and features the music of Ferde Grof's "Grand Canyon Suite"), and The Peter Tchaikovsky Story. The Peter Tchaikovsky story was featured on the 1959 Walt Disney Presents anthology. It was a historic telecast due to the fact that home viewers could listen in true-stereophonic sound, by turning on two additional radios with ABC simulcast of the necessary stereophonic channels. Disney explains the process at the beginning of the featurette. You can choose between this version and the version that replaces Disney's explanation. Although the featurette was first broadcast in black and white, it was shot in color. The remaining color footage is here on this DVD set. * Naturally, there are trailers/promos for other Disney films, including the upcoming theatrical release "Princess & The Frog" and the next Platinum Edition DVD release, "Pinocchio." Extras on Disc 2: Games & Activities: * Briar Rose's Enchanted Dance Game: Learn to Waltz, taking on the role of Princess Aurora or Prince Phillip. * "Sleeping Beauty" Fun With Language Game. This one is definitely for VERY young children who must identify the most basic of words using visuals from the film. Backstage Disney: * Picture Pefect: The Making Of "Sleeping Beauty" (43:32) A wonderful documentary detailing the making of the movie. Features interviews with animators and Mary Costa, who is still beautiful today. Watching this will definitely enhance your appreciation for this movie as the artistic masterpiece that it is. * Eyvind Earle: The Man and His Art (7:33) is about the man responsible for the artistic backgrounds and overall look of the film. Disney stepped up everyone's game at the animation studio by having Earle oversee the design. Features interviews with Alice Davis and John Canemaker. * Alternate Opening (3:28) is recreated with storyboards and sketches. After viewing this, I'd say they made the right decision, as the music intended for this sequence was more pop-oriented and not fitting the classical Tchaikovsky score. * 3 Deleted Songs * 8 Art Galleries, including visual design, character development, storyboards, publicity, and a detailed look at the Storybook featured in the film's opening, * Original Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Castle walkthrough attraction, unseen for years, presented in a virtual digital recreation which is BREATHTAKING. Almost like being at Disneyland. "Tour" it yourself, or with host Tony Baxter explaining your tour as you go through. There is also a featurette explaining the history of the walkthrough. * Sequence 8 (Forest Scene) (5:30) is a featurette that shows the detail and labor that went into this sequence put together by Disney's famous "Nine Old Men." This sequence alone cost the studio over $10,000. It is also interesting to note that only about 8 drawings were able to be done per day because of the precision required; considering it takes 24 to make a second of film, well...you do the math. * Publicity features 3 trailers (teaser, original 1959, and 1995 re-release) * "Four Artists Paint One Tree" (16:08) is a 1958 featurette that has four Disney artists (Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, Joshua Meador, and Walt Peregoy) painting the same tree, each showing their own personal style. Walt Disney himself encourages each to "be themselves." An excellent lesson for budding young artists. * Storyboard sequences * Live-action reference footage. See three of the black and white films that were shot to aid the animators. Especially fun to watch is the sequence where Prince Phillip fights the dragon. For those wanting the Blu-ray, here is the exclusive content: * Maleficent's Challenge - Go head to head with one of Disney's most infamous villains. Think of anything in the world and Maleficent will read your mind. *Dragon Encounter - The ultimate audio experience utilizing Blu-ray high-definition 7.1 or 5.1 audio quality. Explore Maleficent's dungeon in a fully-immersive audio sensory adventure like you've never experienced before. Deep in the bowels of Maleficent's dungeon a dragon encounter awaits. *Cine-Explore - An all new Cine-Explore experience with full motion Picture-in-Picture featuring commentary by John Lasseter, Andreas Deja & Leonard Maltin. *Restoring The Sound Track - This featurette covers the creation of the all new 7.1 mix of the score of Sleeping Beauty that was done exclusively for this Blu-ray release using the source tapes from the original recording sessions resulting in an audio experience of superior quality with greater detail and fidelity than before. *Customized Living Menu - This menu is exclusive to Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owners only. It is a "real time" virtual castle that magically changes based on the viewer's location, time of day and current weather forecast (requires Live enabled players). If preferred, viewers will also have the ability to manually change the castle's weather to match any of the Magic Kingdom Castles around the world. *Disney BD-Live Network - The Disney BD-Live Network is just one of the many ways viewers can continue to stay connected and engage in their favorite movies. *Movie Chat - Communicate with your remote friends on-screen while in a synchronized viewing party using your remote control or any text enabled device such as a laptop, desk top or any PDA device such as a Blackberry, iPhone or most other regular cell phones. Your chat session will appear over the movie and occur in real-time while watching the movie together. *Movie Mail - Record a personalized video message of themselves, superimpose that capture onto one of many pre-selected clips of the movie, and send it off to a friend, colleague, or relative. This specific feature enables the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owner to personalize a special greeting. *Movie Challenge - Test your skills against other players in a synchronized, real-time, online trivia game while watching Sleeping Beauty with anyone online. Movie Challenge is always active no matter what time of the day it is, and there will always be a game in progress. *Disney Movie Rewards Live - Accumulate Disney Movie Reward Points by participating in many Disney BD-Live Network activities. Viewers can redeem points for exclusive content such as Avatars, downloadable extras and more. *A DVD of Sleeping Beauty -Blu-ray owners will also receive a special bonus DVD of the movie! What a set! Definitely not to be missed for your Disney home movie collection.

Walt Disney released his greatest artistic masterpiece "Sleeping Beauty" in February of 1959. After spending 6 million dollars and 8 years in the making of this masterpiece, Sleeping Beauty managed to gross 5.3 million at the box office, certainly not enough for Disney to break even on his greatest artistic achievement in animation. Disney spared no expense on Sleeping Beauty, as he used Technicolor and Technirama 70. Technirama 70 was a special system of film running through the camera horizontally, exposing two 35mm frames simultaneously. This unusual film is then printed normally on standard 35mm film and shown with an anamorphic lens for the widescreen, extra dimension effect. Unlike Disney's earlier box office successful films of "Snow White" and "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty" lacked the music and characters that younger children love. There are no fun songs like "Heigh Ho" or "Cinderelly" and no adorable little mice like Jacques and Gus. This movie is definitely for a little older audience that appreciates the greatest art ever created for a full length animated movie. To say it is Disney's artistic masterpiece is an understatement! I saw Sleeping Beauty when it premiered in the winter of 1959, and even though I was a small child, it was then and is still now my absolute favorite Disney movie of all time! This new blu-ray version of "Sleeping Beauty" made me feel as though I was seeing it again in 1959! This is the widest version I have ever seen and when you add hi-def 1080p and the all new digital restoration to it, it's like seeing it for the first time ever! Everything is so colorful, super wide, sharper, brighter than you can imagine! You can see every crack in every brick and stone! I am keeping my fingers crossed, that they treat more of the other great old Disney films with this same blu-ray restoration, as it's like seeing the film like you've never seen it before! "Sleeping Beauty" may not be known for it's songs, like in "Snow White" or it's cute characters in "Cinderella", but it is known for the most fantastic hand drawn art that will never be surpassed by anyone ever again. Every scene is pure art in it's highest form due to the fantastic work of the best Disney artists of the time. This blu-ray dvd has a Bonus Feature disc that features many of the artists that contributed to this masterpiece. Seeing Eyvind Earle, who was given complete control of every artistic aspect of the film, along with other artists Marc Davis, Mary Blair, Ken Anderson and others is a real treat! This bonus disc also features the beautiful Mary Costa, whose looks and gorgeous voice made Princess Aurora come to life. We also get to see Bill Shirley, the voice of Prince Phillip, Eleanor Audley, the voice of Maleficent as well as the wicked stepmother in Cinderella (She is the best villainess voice of any in animation!) and of course the three good fairies Verna Felton the voice of Flora, Barbara Jo Allen the voice of Fauna and Barbara Luddy the voice of Merryweather. This is so great as Disney shows how the people whose voices played the characters look so much like the characters! Of course they show how the film looks like Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty music seems to have been written for this Disney masterpiece, instead of the other way around! More Bonus features include a Maleficent game, learning to waltz, an all new dragon encounter and a never before seen alternate opening. The best bonus feature for me is the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough. This is unbelievable, to be able to take a digitally re-created 3-D tour of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, just as it was in 1957 and 1958 (two years before the movie premiered)in Disneyland in California! What a treat! If you don't have a blu-ray player, now is the time to get one to enjoy the most breathtaking Disney masterpiece ever created! Sleeping Beauty is pure art in every way one can imagine from it's Tchaikovsky music to it's fairy tale of how good always conquers evil, but mainly for the opulent, gorgeous art dominated by the talents of Eyvind Earle's scenery and Marc Davis' characters- it's a rare treat for the senses and one you don't want to miss!

I honestly never had the urge or enough reason to write a movie review before but for this Masterpiece I alomst feel obliged to explain to the few minority critics that in order to appreciate and enjoy the film you should first have an open minded approch of what the filmmakers had in mind when the movie was made. This movie to begin with has a very straight forward story, it was, is and wall always be a love story, and as many of you know love is not always verbally expressed, the viewer could only look at the intricate and mindblowingly animated facial expressions in the famed sequence 8 piece and you will know that not very much verbal interaction is required by aurora to understand how beautifully complex her love to phillip is and vice versa, first of all shes been dreaming of him all her life and he was mesmerized by her voice the moment he heard it, its as if their love is subconscious, ethereal and evident since they set their eyes on each other. The second and in my opinion the most important way to appreciate and view the film is that to view it as a ballet (the main source of insperation for walt when he made the movie, people will argue that it was a story first then a ballet in my opinion the ballet fleshed out the characters more than the story which was a very short beautiful simple piece) where the physical interactions and movments of characters come first and then comes the dialouge, many of the characters had a sophisticated gliding animated movment to them, moving in most cases like experienced ballet performers. I know many people will say your going deeper and analyzing so much for a simple children's film, but no that couldn't be further from the truth if you've watched the making of documentry available on the blu ray, just listen to how much time, effort and passion was poured into its production, many of the animators said that they had the luxury of time and money (the studio was almost going to be bankrupt in making it thats how carried away they were with perfecting every aspect of their carft they even painted backgrounds so detailed and large to fit the new 70mm screens, recorded the music in a state of the art facility in Germany, so no cutting corners here) that was never been available to them since, or any one else for that matter to craft a film 100% by hand inking,drawing, cleanup and everthing. To me atleast it will always be the pinnacle and at the forefront of traditional animation mastery even some of the 90s animated backgrounds and characters look amateur to this piece try comparing a few stills side by side and you'll know what I mean. It sometimes sadens me that many dont feel, understand or even appreciate as much in this day and age to fully enjoy these beautiful gems of art where there is undeniably ALOT to love appreciate and admire its not perfect but what masterpice is!! thank you for reading.

Sleeping Beauty was my all time favorite Disney film. I was so in love with this story, it's crazy how many times I wore out the VHS. But growing up, I lost touch with the story, but I recently bought the Blu-Ray and re-watched the film and you know what? I'm still in love with this movie. I really miss these old Disney movies where the animation was so bright and beautiful, the characters were so lovable, and the story was so magical. I'm not bashing Disney films from today, just I'm sure we could all relate on this subject where the older Disney films just had a certain charm about it. Sleeping Beauty is just a timeless story and has so much wonderful romance, I guess since I'm a girl, I just couldn't help but still be in love with this beautiful story. Princess Aurora is born and is the future queen of her land, three fairy's, Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna bless her with three gifts: beauty and song, right as Merryweather is about to bless Aurora, the evil witch, Maleficent, comes in and curses Aurora that she shall touch a spinning wheel by her 16th birthday and die! Merryweather changes it to where she won't die, but sleep and could only be woke up by the kiss of true love. The fairy's wish to keep this from happening still, so they take Aurora and raise her as their own. One day Aurora on her 16th birthday goes out in the forest and meets the charming and handsome Prince Phillipe, but she doesn't know he's a prince and she doesn't know he's fhe man she's actually betrothed too. She is told by the fairy's that she can never see him again and that she's a princess; later that night the curse happens! Now the fairy's need Phillipe to save Aurora before it's too late. Everything about Sleeping Beauty is just a perfect Disney film and I can't wait until to show this to my future kids one day. I know that their generation is going to have just the CGI animation, so it's good that at least we still have these films, they're treasures. The voices, the animation, the story, Sleeping Beauty is the most romantic fairy tale that anyone could easily fall in love with. If you are a Disney fan, this is a must see, it's a great family film or if you're just a film buff in general, I'm a grown up and I still tear up when I watch Sleeping Beauty.

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Great movie, great sound, but menu layout, missing content from previous 2003 release, and some weird restoration hiccups make this less than perfect. I'm not going to get into the greatness of the movie since everyone knows already. My problems I have with it begins with the menu layout of the Blu-ray/DVD. If you compare the layout with the 2003 release, the new menu system is terrible. For the Blu-ray versions, it starts off with an animated picture of the castle. The weather changes randomly, and has a small menu showing, I think, different weather statuses for different Disney theme parks around the world? There's nothing telling you what this is and getting to the menu is confusing since the only thing that lights up letting you know the cursor got to the weather menu is a tiny triangle at the bottom. It then opens up a world map and lets you click on a location of a theme park, but nothing changes for the castle, making this completely pointless (by the way, my BD player is always connected to the internet). The real menu on the screen, that is for watching the movie, is small and basically pointless since one of the options is to open up a bigger version of the menu, in a different screen, where you can set-up the movie's audio and subtitles. The new screen for the bigger menu is very boring with not a lot of thought put into it compared to the menus of the 2003 release. The text for the menus is very small, including descriptions for each option. Unfortunately, this is the same for the second Blu-ray disc that houses that extra content. For the extra content itself, I think most of the content of the 2003 release was put on this release, but I noticed for at least the art gallery section, some drawings and other pieces that were included in the 2003 release, were not put on this release for some reason. Lastly, the restoration is great for the most part but there are some weird changes made from the 2003 restoration. One change is very obvious; it's the scene where Maleficent crashes the christening. There is a close up of her laughing, but oddly, she has white eyes instead of the deep yellow eyes she always has in every other scene. In the 2003 restoration, her eyes are yellow, just like you would expect. Another example is the scene King Stefan and King Hubert celebrating the Aurora's return. The page that enters to show the future castle plans has always worn light green clothes. This new restoration changed his clothes to a yellow, which is fine, but before the page is put to sleep by the fairies' spell, his clothes are back to light green (then put to a dark green along with everything else). A third example is when Aurora becomes hypnotized by Maleficent's spell. The light shines on her and the background is green, but her lighting has a different color or shade, making it look odd compared to the background's lighting. This isn't present in the 2003 release. Lastly, the brightness of the characters' colors are too bright to the point that you can't see a difference in hue, especially for their clothes. This appears to of happened due to the increased brightness they put when restoring every scene. I've only found one audio hiccup, it's the scene where the fairies are secretly planning on how to protect the princess from the curse. When Flora finally comes up with her plan, she waves her wand, tapping a ruby below. In the 2003 release, there is a distinct tapping sound done, but in this new release, the tapping sound is gone! What happened to it? Very weird, but hopefully the next release will correct all these mess-ups so that we can see the film as originally intended.

Sleeping Beauty is one hour and fifteen minutes and was released in theaters on January 29, 1959. The story is that an evil witch named Maleficent put a curse on King Stefan and Queen Leah infant child named Aurora. The curse was that Aurora would prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday. The three good fairies disguised as mortal take her to a cottage in the woods where she grew up and went by the name Briar Rose. Since this is a Disney movie we now the rest of the story and the happy ending. This was the first Disney movie filmed in 70mm format or what we would call today wide screen. This would be the last Disney movie inked by hand. From 101 Dalmatians on, every animated movie would be were xeroxed onto the cels. On last fact about Sleeping Beauty at the time it was the most expensive movie to make at a cost of six million dollars. My biggest beef about this two DVD set is the overkill of information. In Disc 2 the Games, Music, & Fun is fun for kids but when you the History & Behind the Scene (mostly geared to adults) is too much information. It took me over two hours to go through that whole thing and after watching no more of five minutes of The Peter Tchaikovsky Story I turned the special off. Just see below look below at what you get. I cannot imagine a parent going to her daughter and saying "hey little girlie lets watch all of disk two". The poor girl would wind up committed in a mental sanatorium. Overall Sleeping Beauty (the movie only) is a great family movie and gets an AAAAA+++++. Disc 1 Play Film Scene Selections Audio Commentary Sneak Peeks A. The Lion King Special Edition B. Brother Bear C. Finding Nemo D. The Santa Clause 2 E. Kim Possible: the Secret Files F. Disney Princess G. Disney Electronics Princess Style Set Up A. Spoken Languages a. English (widescreen) b. English (full screen) c. French (full screen) d. Spanish (full screen) B. Captions a. English for the Hearing Impaired b. None C. THX D. Register Your DVD E. Return to Film Disc 2 Games, Music, & Fun A. Disney' Art Project B. Rescue Aurora Adventure Game C. Princess Personality Profile Game D. "Once Upon a Dream" Sing - Along Song E. "Once Upon a (Another) Dream" Music Video Performed by no secrets F. Sleeping Beauty Ink & Paint Game History & Behind the Scenes A. The Making of Sleeping Beauty B. Story a. The History of the Story b. The 1951 Outline c. Storyboard Sequences i. Seq 15: The Fairies put the Castle to Sleep ii. Seq 17: The Capture of the Prince C. Production a. The Music b. The Design c. Creating the Backgrounds d. Live - Action Reference i. Briar Rose Dance Reference ii. Prince Phillip and the Dragon Reference iii. Photographs e. The Restoration f. Widescreen to Pan - and - Scan Comparison D. Sleeping Beauty Galleries a. Layouts and Background Gallery b. The Sleeping Beauty Storybook Gallery c. Poster Gallery d. Disneyland Walk through Gallery e. Concept Art Gallery i. Briar Rose/Princess Aurora Gallery ii. Maleficent and her Minions Gallery iii. The Three Good Fairies Gallery iv. The Royal Household Gallery v. Miscellaneous Characters Gallery E. Publicity a. Original Teaser Trailer b. Original Theatrical Trailer - 1959 c. Trailer - 1995 F. Sleeping Beauty Scrapbook a. Behind the Scenes b. Publicity c. Merchandise d. Theme Parks G. Four Artists Paint One Tree H. The Peter Tchaikovsky Story I. Grand Canyon VHS EXTRAS Previews A. The Little Mermaid B. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas C. Old Yeller D. Alice in Wonderland E. The Jungle Book F. George of the Jungle Once Upon A Dream: The Making of Sleeping Beauty

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Ya la tenía y la compré por error nuevamente pero bueno ni modo igual me gusta la película, es edición diamante y es para que se coleccione paulatinamente los 50 clásicos de Disney vale más comprar en paquete que de uno por uno

Great like watching it all the time

Classic movie, with interesting extras. Arrived on time in great condition.

ce dessin animé est une pure merveille, les illustrations d'eyvind earle qui était responsable de la création des décors sont extraordinaires, entierement restaurées, ses peintures sont de toutes beauté et semble désormait véritablement s'épanouir dans le cadre respecté d'origine (70mm cinémascope). il y a une force et un dynamisme dans ses créations, le travail des lumières, des contrastes et des couleurs est impressionant. je recommande chaudement l'achat de ce dvd aux amoureux du 4ème et du 9ème art ne serait ce que pour découvrir cet artiste, véritable génie pictural du 20e siecle. le dvd quand a lui est truffé de bonus plus intéressants et enrichissants les uns que les autres : documentaires de l'époque, making off, archives inédites (posters, storyboards) et autres explications sur la fabrication du film qui s'inscrit parmis les plus longues de l'histoire des productions disney (plus de 3 ans). comme tous les collectors walt disney, c'est réellement un très bon achat qu'on ne regrette pas un instant. un film superbe, unique en son genre pour l'époque puisqu'entierement basé sur le style d'un artiste (e. earle), qui raviera les tous petits par son histoire féérique, ses personnages attachants, ses couleurs éclatantes et resplendissantes, mais qui raviera également, si ce n'est plus, les plus grands par ses qualités visuelles et artistiques ainsi que par l'enrichissement et la diversité des bonus proposés.

Love the story of Sleeping Beauty, such a colourful film that I remember from my childhood. Im pleased to add this classic to my dvd collection 😀 fab delivery thanks 😊