But time has been kind to the film, subsequent reissues have finally put it in the profit margin, and both viewers and critics are appreciating it for the beautiful fantasy it has always been. The extra expense needed to showcase the widescreen film properly, together with the lukewarm reviews, prevented "Sleeping Beauty" from turning a profit at the box office when it was released (with much fanfare) in 1959. Also new and trend-setting was the style of the animation-a more realistic, geometric design which, surprisingly left many critics and audiences cold. The six-track magnetic stereo sound was a step upward from the "Fantasound" system employed in "Fantasia" (1940). The widescreen Technirama 70 process had never been used for an animated feature. The then-record budget (six million dollars) was the largest ever for an animated motion picture. "Sleeping Beauty" was envisioned by the great Walt Disney as his masterpiece-the feature-length cartoon par excellence.
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