Sleeping Beauty (S)
- Original title
- La belle au bois dormant
- Year
- 1908
- Running time
- 11 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Tale: Charles Perrault
- Cast
- Cinematography
- Segundo de Chomón (B&W)
- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy | Short Film. Silent Film. Origins of Film. Fairy Tales / Fables
- Movie Groups
- Charles Perrault Adaptations
- Synopsis
- A beautiful daughter having been born to the king and queen, the nine most important fairies of the country are called upon to be godmother of the child, and as the ceremony takes place each blesses the child with a special virtue or talent. The welfare of the child seems assured, when all at once the oldest, ugliest and therefore forgotten fairy, appears on the scene and, furious at the slight, puts upon her, curses the baby princess and predicts that she will die poisoned by the prick of the spool of a spinning wheel. The godmother fairies, however, sooth the grief-stricken mother by telling her that her daughter will not die but only fall asleep, as well as everything living which surrounds her for one hundred years. To avoid this calamity, the king orders that every spinning wheel be destroyed under penalty of death, and the king's messenger is seen reading the command. The next scene shows the grown-up princess closely watched by a stately matron. This trusted servant, however...
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