Sleeping Beauty is as one of Disney’s crowning achievements in animation, despite being a box office disappointment upon its initial release. Following the success of Cinderella, Walt Disney selected Sleeping Beauty as the studio’s next princess film but wanted to depart from the traditional look of their previous fairy tales. The project was ambitious from the start. Character designs diverged sharply from earlier Disney films. The score was adapted from the 1889 ballet, and it was photographed