Спящая Красавица (The Sleeping Beauty)

Disney's film is scored from Tchaikovsky's ballet, not merely in its spirit: George Bruns adapted the 1890 music directly, and the songs are set to ballet themes. Once Upon a Dream is the Garland Waltz with lyrics written over it. The borrowing shaped how the film looks as well. It was made in Technirama 70 with flat, angular backgrounds by Eyvind Earle that read as stage design rather than as illustration, which is a deliberate fit to the score. The tale itself is Perrault's; the version Disney put on screen is Tchaikovsky's.

Petipa's scenario follows Perrault closely enough to name his other tales in it: the last act's divertissement is a wedding party attended by Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard's wife, all of them characters from the same 1697 collection rather than from the Sleeping Beauty story itself.