Disney’s Sleeping Beauty was first released on January 29th, 1959.
One of the film’s iconic scenes - when Briar Rose meets Prince Phillip for the first time to the tune of “Once Upon a Dream” - was called Sequence 8 when it was being produced. It was a particularly hard sequence to get right (Walt Disney rejected it several times) and ultimately had to be done 4 times, almost bankrupting the studio in the process. (x)

















