In November 1950, Walt Disney announced he was developing "Sleeping Beauty" as a feature animated film. Writing on the film began in early 1951, in which partial story elements originated from discarded ideas for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" including Maleficent's capture of Prince Phillip and his dramatic escape from her fortress and "Cinderella" where a fantasy sequence featured the leading protagonists dancing on a cloud which was developed, but eventually dropped from the film. By the middle of 1953, director Wilfred Jackson had recorded the dialogue, assembled a story reel, and was to commence for preliminary animation work where Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip were to meet in the forest and dance, though Disney decided to throw out the sequence delaying the film from its initial 1955 release date.