Facts-Sleeping Beauty

Interesting Facts 

• Sleeping Beauty, is adapted from the Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions of the classic fairy tale. 
• Aurora's true love, Prince Philip, took his name from the British prince of the same name, husband of Queen Elizabeth ll, then still new to the throne.
• Much of the musical score is adapted from Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet. But George Bruns, who arranged the music, too much of the credit for the score.
• In 1953, Legendary Warner Bros. Animator Chuck Jones worked on "Sleeping Beauty" for four months, at a time when the Warners animation shop was shut down. He did not receive a credit on the film. 
• "Sleeping Beauty" was the first animated feature to be filmed in the wide-screen 70MM Technirama format. 
• It was also the last Disney cartoon feature to use hand-linked cels (the foreground transparencies on which the characters are painted).