by: D-Team Caitlin On this day in 1959, Sleeping Beauty premiered, introducing the world to lovely Aurora, debonair Prince Phillip, and one of animation’s most menacing villains, Maleficent. Set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet, the film has a unique tone. The music, in combination with the art design of Eyvind Earle, gave Sleeping Beauty a feel unlike any other Disney production. Boasting many of Walt’s “nine old men” as animators, the characters of Sleeping Beauty are timeless,…