Sleeping Beauty (1959, USA) C-75m. SCOPE **** D: Clyde Geronimi. Starring (the voices of) Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson. One of Disney most beautiful animated features, this brings the classic fairy tale splendidly to the screen. Princess Aurora is cursed by an evil witch at birth, spends her childhood with fairies in the wood, who still fail to protect her from fateful touching of the spindle. Filmed in 70mm Super Technirama (a widescreen process), this is perhaps Disney's most stylish feature. Elements of fantasy are realized with great creativity and elegance, the voice performances and characters are immensely charming, and the orchestra score by George Bruns (Oscar-nominated) is simply excellent. Animator Don Bluth's first movie, and Chuck Jones also did some uncredited work on this. Wolfgang Reitherman (THE JUNGLE BOOK) did some 2nd unit directing.