Sleeping Beauty (UK VHS 1996)

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
 * 2) Closed Captions screens
 * 3) Video Piracy warning
 * 4) Coming Soon from Disney Videos
 * 5) Pocahontas trailer
 * 6) Coming to a Cinema Near You
 * 7) Toy Story teaser trailer
 * 8) Available Now on Disney Videos
 * 9) The Lion King trailer
 * 10) The Fox and the Hound trailer
 * 11) Coming Soon from Disney Videos (again)
 * 12) The New Adventures of Timon and Pumbaa trailer
 * 13) Stay Tuned
 * 14) Disney Videos logo
 * 15) Walt Disney Pictures logo
 * 16) Start of Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Closing Previews (UK)

 * 1) End of Sleeping Beauty (1959)
 * 2) The End A Walt Disney Production
 * 3) Walt Disney Pictures logo silent
 * 4) Also Available from Disney Videos
 * 5) Walt Disney Classics 1995 trailer
 * 6) Disney Videos 1996 trailer
 * 7) Coming Soon from Disney Videos
 * 8) Mickey's Fun Songs trailer
 * 9) Available Now from Disney Interactive
 * 10) Disney's Animated Storybook - The Lion King trailer