The 2008 Restoration Screening
AMIA 2008 Restoration Screening
Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
Thursday - November 13 at 7:00pm
The Lucas TheatreWalt Disney envisioned Sleeping Beauty as his masterwork; his nearly decade-long effort to bring this 17th century fairy tale to the screen at the then-shocking cost of $6 million resulted in a spectacular, exquisitely detailed animated fantasy. With the enchanting fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, the beautiful Princess Aurora, her valiant Prince Phillip, and the evil witch Maleficent all modeled on extensive footage of live actors, the human characters are remarkably lifelike; Eyvind Earle’s visual and color stylings realize Disney’s conception of the film as a “moving illustration.” Full of both lighthearted songs and romance, and capped by a dramatic battle with a fire-breathing dragon, Sleeping Beauty is visually impressive, humorous and suspenseful.
This new digital restoration of Sleeping Beauty comes from 4K scans of the camera original successive exposure Technirama negative. The audio remix was created from the Disney Studio’s 35mm mag elements, including the original 3-track stereo music masters, which were recorded in Berlin in 1958.
Opening the evening will be the newly restored Grand Canyon (1958). Directed by James Alger, produced by Walt Disney, Grand Canyon received the Oscar for Best Short Subject (Live Action) in 1958.
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