No witch ever swished her black cape with a witchier sneer. No prince ever roused his drowsy beloved with a princelier kiss. No fairy tale ever survived elaborate treatment more gracefully than Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty has done at the hands of Walt Disney. And no wonder, because Disney, in search of smoother, more realistic animation, had actors (right) act out scenes for artists – who then made (above, below) 1,440 colored drawings for every minute of film footage.
To be released early in the new year, the cartoon cost $6 million, took 300 artists six years to draw and runs 75 minutes. It is presented in a new wide screen technique, 70-mm Technirama, and is backed with songs and music , motivated” by Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet and reproduced in six-channel stereophonics. As a final lillip the romance between prince and princess is , treated, say Disney's men, , in the acceptable boy-girl fashion of today.” One result is that the prince has a medieval haircut as close as possible to a teen-ager's ducktail.
[img]Maleficent the Witch exults in old tower where princess has prickcd her finger on spindle and fallen asleep.[/img]
[img]Phillip the Prince magically kisses the princess awake. In film version they meet before her enchantment.[/img]
[img]Witch Model Jane Fowler swirls her cape for painting at left. Another actress did witch's voice.[/img]
[img]Romantic Originals for magic kiss at bottom left are Helene Stanley and Ed Kemmer below.[/img]
