Sleeping Beauty Fun Facts

1. As apposed to the me, none of the women in the film are shown eating. This strengthens the idea of female graciousness in the film and in society.
2. "Sleeping Beauty" was the first animated feature to be filmed in the wide-screen 70MM Technirama format.
3. "Sleeping Beauty" is adapted from both the Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions of the classic fairy tale. In Perrault, the princess's name is Aurora; in Grimm, it's Briar Rose. In the movie, she's born Aurora but takes on Briar Rose as an alias during the years she spends hiding out from Maleficent.
4. Aurora's true love, Prince Philip, took his name from the British prince of the same name, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, then still new to the throne.
5. Sleeping Beauty was the last Disney cartoon feature to use hand-inked cels