The Disney Animation Classics The Sleeping Beauty 1959 was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. Aurora's dress Pink or Blue Scene. Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Pe