"Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition ('59 US) [2-Disc Set]" Mary Costa / Bill Shirley / Clyde Geronimi #MaryCosta #BillShirley #ClydeGeronimi #BluRay In 1959, Walt Disney released "Sleeping Beauty" as the world's first feature-length animation using a 70mm widescreen. The original story was by Charles Perrault, a French poet and critic. Disney romantically adapted the original, with five of the legendary animators known as the "Nine Old Men" involved, and a total of 300 animators working for six years to complete it. It is Disney's most romantic princess story. Princess Aurora, the protagonist, is given beauty and a beautiful singing voice by fairies at her birth celebration. However, the witch Maleficent casts a terrible curse on Aurora: "On her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die." Aurora soon turns 16. Her encounter with Prince Phillip in the forest, the fulfillment of the curse, and the fateful kiss that breaks the curse... That most romantic moment that everyone dreams of arrives.