![]() ![]() And the way he chose to do this was through the film’s art and style. When Disney set out to make a third feature film based on a fairy tale, he had to make it different somehow distinguishable from Snow White and Cinderella. But in some ways, it’s part of the problem. Firstly, Sleeping Beauty is a work of art. Disney’s very first shorts he ever made, the Laugh-O-Grams, were based on well-known fairy tales, the company had produced some popular as well as award-winning shorts based on fairy tales, and the features, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Cinderella (1950) had not only been successful and popular, but had even helped push the studio forward Snow White heralded the dawn of the feature animated film and Cinderella pulled the studio out of its Depression Era and post-war slump. And that thirty year gap is what’s really the most interesting to me here. Sleeping Beauty is the third feature film based on a fairy tale made by Disney, appearing nine years after Cinderella, and notably, the last to be made for thirty years until The Little Mermaid in 1989. The DVD cover for the platinum edition of Sleeping Beauty this version was released in 2008. ![]() ![]() One of the original posters for Sleeping Beauty, released in 1959. ![]() Disney Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1959) ![]()
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