Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) first Disney feature-film that did not have the same background animation material, but instead with new background animation material. "Sleeping Beauty" was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Disney's own "Lady and the Tramp" four years earlier. The film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements. After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for
Sleeping Beauty transposon system Sleeping Beauty transposon system The "Sleeping Beauty" transposon system is a synthetic DNA transposon designed to introduce precisely defined DNA sequences into the chromosomes of vertebrate animals for the purposes of introducing new traits and to discover new genes and their functions. It is a Tc1/mariner-type system, with the transposase resurrected from multiple inactive fish sequences. The "Sleeping Beauty" transposon system is composed of a "Sleeping Beauty" (SB) transposase and a transposon that was designed in 1997 to insert specific sequences of DNA into genomes of vertebrate animals. DNA transposons translocate from one DNA site to another in a simple,