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Once Upon a Dream: From Perrault's Sleeping Beauty to Disney's Maleficent Hardcover

Once Upon a Dream: From Perrault's Sleeping Beauty to Disney's Maleficent Hardcover

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📖 Book Overview & Summary

Internationally respected animation critic and historian Charles Solomon, alongside legendary producer Don Hahn, traces the complete evolution of one of the world's most enduring fairy tales. Published by the premium preservation curators at Disney Editions, Once Upon a Dream: From Perrault's Sleeping Beauty to Disney's Maleficent is a highly sought-after deluxe hardcover biographical, artistic, and cinematic archive. This premium coffee-table anthology tracks the legendary animation cels, historic concept art, and modern live-action breakthroughs engineered within the Walt Disney Studios archives.

Spanning a monumental 176 pages of vivid, high-contrast visual layouts and heavy archival paper stock, this comprehensive chronicle presents an unmatched look inside the creative engines of Disney film production. First published in 1697, Charles Perrault's dark vision of an ageless, enchanted princess slumbering in a vine-encrusted tower has fascinated readers and artists for more than 300 years. This heavily-illustrated volume traces that fascination across literature, fine art, poetry, and music before diving deep into Disney's historic 1959 animated masterpiece and the 2014 live-action blockbuster. The book explores the creative breakthroughs, production secrets, and historic studio dynamics behind the scenes. Get an inside look at the classic hand-drawn filmmaking process packed with rare sketches, storyboard keys, character turnaround models, and exclusive production photography documenting the legendary Maleficent.
Individual chapters compile spectacular visual layouts, character designs, and historic portfolios:
  • The 1959 Animated Classic Retrospective: Over 86 pages compiled with breathtaking, never-before-seen background paintings by Eyvind Earle, classic model sheets, and an in-depth exploration of how Briar Rose/Aurora became a high-art animation milestone.
  • The 2014 Live-Action Blockbuster Evolution: Features 64 pages dedicated to the dark fantasy adaptation, including exclusive production interviews with Angelina Jolie, director Robert Stromberg, and the design teams responsible for the striking costumes, physical props, and advanced cinematic makeup.
  • The Legacy of the Sorceress: A beautiful behind-the-scenes layout analyzing how Perrault’s shriveled old fairy was masterfully transformed into the ultimate epitome of the lovely yet terrible sorceress of fantasy literature.
Masterfully researched and compiled by leading industry experts, this volume stands as the ultimate tribute to the architects of fairy tale magic. This essential reference manual is an absolute crown jewel addition for character designers, live-action concept painters, illustration historians, and dedicated collectors of premium Disney books.
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📋 Product Specifications
  • Title: Once Upon a Dream: From Perrault's Sleeping Beauty to Disney's Maleficent
  • Author & Lead Contributor: Charles Solomon (with Introduction by Don Hahn)
  • Design Team: Disney Editions Visual Editorial and Layout Studio
  • Publisher: Disney Editions (Disney Editions Deluxe Film Series Era)
  • Format: Heavyweight Deluxe Hardcover (HC) with Pictorial Boards and Graphic Dust Jacket
  • Print Length: 176 Pages (Profusely illustrated with over 250 color illustrations and archival stock)
  • Dimensions: Approx. 24.13 cm x 2.54 cm x 29.85 cm / 9.5" x 1.0" x 11.75" (Standard Deluxe Scale)
  • Item Weight: Approx. 1.37 kg / 3.0 lbs
  • Language: English Text Release
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1423199022
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1423199021