Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty, although has similar storyline to Snow White and Cinderella, is visually completely different.

The reason Walt Disney chose to produce a film like this was because the roots of the story were so successful in Snow White and Cinderella, with one main heroine who finds love in the end.

It started in 1951, writing a rough script for the film, based on the story "La Belle au Bois Dormant", and finally being released in 1959! However it only had 5 chapters in it, so the writers had to re-visit it to add more action to make it exciting and captivating for audiences. For his previous films, Disney felt they had added more gag sequences and sub plots to fill the time, but with Sleeping Beauty wanted to focus on the main plot and characters.

To make this film stand out from its predecessors, he wanted to change the visual style, where the other fairy tales - Snow White and Cinderella - had a rounded look, Sleeping Beauty was more stylised and modern, which I believe results in beautiful images.

The actual cell-frames themselves were all coloured in ink individually, and designed by a man called Eyvind Earle; but this kind of production took one week per painting rather then the average one day for the other films.

This was the first and last feature length film to be stylised and created in this way, simply because it was too expensive to produce, with little profits made at the end.