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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936746228
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed
Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 5
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 29, 1959
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Awaken your senses to the majesty of SLEEPING BEAUTY Walt Disney's ultimate fairy tale. See more than you've ever seen before through the magic of state of the art technology and experience this groundbreaking film restored beyond its original brilliance in the way Walt envisioned it pristine beautiful utterly breathtaking. From the grand celebration of Princess Aurora's birth to the fateful day when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls under Malificent's evil curse to Prince Philip's courageous battle against a fire-breathing dragon the stunning artistry and spine-tingling sounds will transform your home into a fantastic world. The adventures continue as you are immersed into a wonderful world of bonus features.
BONUS FEATURES
In the original story, Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince's kiss. In the Disney version, Prince Philip comes to her rescue much sooner.
George Brun's orchestral score, which was nominated for an Academy Award, expertly blended famous themes from Tchaikovsky's ballet.
With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney's most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.
Determined to make the characters as realistic as possible, Disney had a live action film shot with actors posing as Sleeping Beauty, the Prince, and Maleficent, for the animators to use.
New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called the fight between Prince Philip and Maleficent the noisiest and scariest go-round he (Disney) has ever put into one of his films.
Live Menus Featuring A Real Time Castle Environment
All-New Making Of SLEEPING BEAUTY Featurette
Deleted Songs
And More!
DISNEY BD LIVE innovative features premiering on Sleeping Beauty include Chat and Create Custom Video Messages With yoru Friends As You Watch The Film, Shop For Add-Ons and Downloads, Maleficent's Challenge Game, Living Menus Real Time Castle Environment Changes Based on Your Location System Requirements:Running Time: 75 minutes Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: G UPC: 786936746228 Manufacturer No: 05560800
Amazon.com:
Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here. And Malificent's castle, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke
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Rating:  - A big "WOW!" to the new DVD
Most new Disney editions have been improvements over what has come before, but this new edition of SLEEPING BEAUTY is an unparalleled improvement on all previous editions. Before receiving the new Platinum DVD copy I dipped back briefly into my old VHS copy that I had for my daughter when she was a child. 4:3 ratio, poor color, in general nothing special.
I then put in the disc for the new Platinum edition. I was utterly and absolutely astonished. Widescreen instead of 4:3. The improvement in the color was unbelievable. Now, I have to offer a disclaimer. I watched the Platinum edition on a Philips up-conversion DVD player. Unless you own an up-conversion DVD player and a high-def TV it won't look this good for you (though it is also available in Blu-ray -- I would love to have checked this out on Blu-ray through my Sony PS3, but I only had the regular DVD). But with my set up the results were nothing short of spectacular. I was absolutely thrilled with the results. Even if you have a relatively low-tech DVD set up, this is going to be a vast improvement over the old VHS edition.
SLEEPING BEAUTY has always had special emotional importance for me. My Dad and I never did much stuff together. I don't have many childhood memories of just me and him. But for some reason he took me, when I was a very small child, to the theater to see SLEEPING BEAUTY. I believe that it was the only movie that only he and I ever saw. My mother took me to many, many movies, but ... Read More
Rating: - Detailed Remastering Extras Awaken Disney's Stunning "Sleeping Beauty"
Walt Disney's 1958 "Sleeping Beauty" marked the end of the studio's first golden era and, by extension, an era in American filmmaking. Watching this 50th anniversary edition (the most lovingly compiled among these 2DVD resissue series sets), you sense everyone involved - Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," animators, Walt himself, even the characters on screen - knew it.
For years Disney called his TV show, "The Wonderful World of Color," but in "Sleeping Beauty" he told an admittedly thin story (adapting an opulent Tchaikovsky soundtrack)almost through vividness alone. Sets overflow with near 3D level detail and depth, swirling scene to scene and rewarding the eye when stopping a frame. Green dominates: Princess Aurora's ponders and meets her future in the pastoral forest singing "I Wonder," dark pea-moss clouds surround and shadow villanous Maleficient's castle (joining royal purple in her angry frustration) or green flames where Aurora's betrothed Prince Philip defeats her in the film's climax.
Eyvind Earle's justifiably praised art background (feted in a DVD bonus) rests behind loveable ancillary characters. Three fussy good fairies (distinctive to the film's betterment by "Old Men" Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas,over Disney's objection), sweet forest animals always in Disney's repertory, a jolly king and tipsy troubadour jester divert and move the plot, pumping humor and life into a film little about plot to start with.
"Sleeping Beauty" was about allowing ... Read More
Rating: - An unforgettable story becomes even harder to forget
The Sleeping Beauty story never gets old, no matter how old you are or how long ago you saw it. But this Platinum Edition brings out the best in the story with a great-looking digitally restored picture, making it now even harder to forget with colors that jump at you. If you can watch the movie on a widescreen TV you will enjoy it at its fullest as it was the first one that Disney did on 70 mm film.
Alongside the unforgettable tale, there are lots of extra material packing the two discs, such as children games, a great documentary on the making of the movie and even a short on the life of Tchaikovsky (whose music is featured on the film) that make this package a must have for Disney fans.
Rating: - Reconsidering Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" as a restored classic
I have been trying to remember the first time I saw Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty," and I cannot remember if I ever saw it in a theater, caught it on television some time, or never sat down to watch it until it came out on videotape. What I did remember is not being particularly impressed by the movie. Certainly I did not consider it to be a classic Disney animated film like "Bambi" or "Cinderella," which is a way of saying that it was not on my "must have" list of Disney movies. Then I watched this 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition of "Sleeping Beauty" and all I can say is that however I saw this film for the first time it was NOT in this expanded version that has restored the original Super Technirama 70 dimensions of the film. I would have remembered a film that had art this gorgeous, even when it is this stylized and even when the music is classical high brow stuff. In the final analysis, "Sleeping Beauty" is clearly like no other Disney animated film, and that is a good thing.
Disc 1 includes "Grand Canyon," a contemporaneous Disney feature (1958) that combines photography of the national park with Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," and it would be the classical music that is the common denominator to the main feature. Disc 2 has Games & Activities over in the Cottage, while the Castle is devoted to the Backstage Disney special features. The games are pretty much geared for younger children (e.g., see "mop" and click on the item the word represents), so most of the goodies ... Read More
Rating: - Beauty and MaleficienceTogether.
Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY is based upon the story of Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm. In this version of the tale, a beautiful baby girl named Aurora is born to a friendly king and queen. After her birth people and creatures from all around come to give her gifts, including three good fairies. Two of the fairies give their gifts to the child but before the third fairy is able to do so, an un-invited guest, the evil sorceress Malificient, appears and places a curse upon the child. Before the end of Aurora's birthday she will prick her finger upon the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. After Malificient leaves, the third fairy bestows her gift: instead of dying, Aurora will only fall into a deep slumber when the event happens and will only awaken with true love's kiss. The fairies take Aurora and hide her and raise her deep in the woods as their own child. When Aurora meets her true love, Prince Phillip, it would seem that everything is going to work out as planned. But in fairy tales, even a Disneyized version of one, nothing is quite as it seems.
SLEEPING BEAUTY had been in pre-production and production for almost a decade before it was originally released in theatres in 1958. The film was incredibly expensive to make and had it failed it would have bankrupted the studio. In fact, the film was so expensive that it was the last Disney animated picture to mostly have hand-drawn animated cells for each frame of the picture. Xeroxing was king after that and a glory age of animation came ... Read More
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