Sleeping beauty the gifts of beauty and song

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of this treasured classic, awaken to these 11 entrancing facts about this treasured Disney classic. Walt envisioned Sleeping Beauty, based on the 17th century version of the famous tale by Charles Perrault, as the ultimate in the art of Disney animation. Creating a stylized approach that was a radical departure from previous Disney animated features, Earle combined Gothic French, Italian, and pre-Renaissance influences with his own abstract style of realism to create the formalized elegance and stylish design seen in Sleeping Beauty. To create the sumptuously stylized panoramas for this widescreen spectacle, Earle painted dozens of backgrounds in his distinctive style, some of them 15 feet long. Animation artist Tom Oreb skillfully incorporated the strong horizontal and vertical planes of the backgrounds into the character design, so that they had the Earle flair. Hail to the Princess Aurora With the gift of beauty bestowed on her by the Good Fairies, it was essential that Princess Aurora be a truly lovely sleeping beauty.

At the very least, Sleeping Beauty is a beautiful film to look at, and fantasize along with. Without further ado, here are five questions we still have. As a year-old girl, Aurora looks like a something model and can sing like a bird — probably because, as an infant, she was given the gift of beauty by Flora and song by Fauna. These totally come in handy when nabbing a prince in the fourteenth century. I get it. What about intelligence?