Sleeping Beauty
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.

Based on the story "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault.

"50th anniversary"--Container.

Widescreen 2.55:1.

Editors, Roy M. Brewer, Jr., Donald Halliday ; production designers, Ken Anderson, Don DaGradi ; music adaptation, George Bruns ; adapted from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet ; songs, George Bruns [and others].

Voices: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson.

Princess Aurora is born to King Stefan and his wife. At a ceremony for her, fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But the evil sorceress, Maleficent, shows up and places a curse on the princess - where Aurora will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow princess Aurora to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage and raise her as their own child. On her 16th birthday, Aurora meets Prince Phillip and the two fall in love. Maleficent kidnaps the Prince and she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel. Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the good fairies head to Maleficent's castle to free him. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent when she turns herself into a fire-breathing dragon. Now the Prince has to be strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil Maleficent.

MPAA rating: G.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); closed-captioned in English.

National Film Preservation Board, 2019: Induction to the National Film Registry.