Sleeping Beauty | |
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Directed by | Supervising Director Clyde Geronimi Sequence Directors Eric Larson Wolfgang Reitherman Les Clark |
Written by | Erdman Penner |
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Based on | Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
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Narrated by | Marvin Miller |
Edited by | Roy M. Brewer, Jr. Donald Halliday |
Music by | George Bruns (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet) |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $6 million[2] |
Box office | $51.6 million[3] |
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.