Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is a UK VHS. This was Distributed by Disney Videos.

Plot
The classic Walt Disney version of the Brothers Grimm fairytale. Thanks to a curse visited upon her by the evil fairy Maleficent, Princess Aurora falls into a deep and endless sleep on her 16th birthday. Only a kiss from Prince Phillip can wake her, and three good fairies set out to engineer that event. Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur.

Opening Previews (UK)

 * 1) Blue Warning Screen (1995-1997)
 * 2) Closed Captions Screens (1995-1997)
 * 3) Video Piracy Warning (Sleeping Beauty)
 * 4) Coming Soon from Disney Videos
 * 5) Pocahontas trailer (Coming Soon in Spring 1996)
 * 6) Coming to a Cinema Near You (1995-1996)
 * 7) Toy Story teaser trailer (UK pitch) (Coming to Life Soon)
 * 8) Available Now on Disney Videos
 * 9) The Lion King trailer (Now Available to Own on Video)
 * 10) The Fox and the Hound trailer (Now Available on Video)
 * 11) Coming Soon from Disney Videos (again)
 * 12) The New Adventures of Timon and Pumbaa trailer (V1) (Coming Soon to Video)
 * 13) Stay Tuned (1995-1996)
 * 14) Disney Videos logo (1995)
 * 15) Walt Disney Pictures logo (1985-2006)
 * 16) Start of Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Closing Previews (UK)

 * 1) End of Sleeping Beauty (1959)
 * 2) The End A Walt Disney Production (Sleeping Beauty, 1959)
 * 3) Walt Disney Pictures logo (1985-2006) (silent)
 * 4) Also Available from Disney Videos
 * 5) Walt Disney Classics 1995 promo with clips of "Mary Poppins", "Alice in Wonderland", "Dumbo", "Robin Hood" and "The Sword in the Stone".
 * 6) Disney Videos 1996 promo with clips of "Aladdin's Arabian Adventures", "Winnie the Pooh", "Disney's Sing-Along Songs", "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Early Adventures" and "Disney's Storybook Favourites". (Which one is missing from your collection?)
 * 7) Coming Soon from Disney Videos
 * 8) Mickey's Fun Songs promo with clips of "Let's Go to the Circus" and "Campout at Walt Disney World".
 * 9) Available Now from Disney Interactive
 * 10) Disney's Animated Storybook - The Lion King advert (Available Now for Your Home Computer)