Hi John,

Thank you for contacting Mearto with your appraisal inquiry.

Disney hired artist Eyvind Earle as the film’s production designer. He gave Sleeping Beauty its bold, Gothic, highly stylized look — with backgrounds inspired by medieval tapestries and illuminated manuscripts. This made it stand apart visually from earlier Disney features like Snow White (1937) or Cinderella (1950). It was the first animated feature produced in 70mm Super Technirama widescreen, giving it a grand, cinematic scale — meant to rival big-screen epics of the era. Though not initially a big box-office success, Sleeping Beauty became iconic — Maleficent especially became one of Disney’s most enduring villains, and the film has influenced generations of animators, fashion designers, and filmmakers.

Storyboards are absolutely central to filmmaking — especially animation, but also live-action — because they’re the visual blueprint for the movie. A script is words on a page, but storyboards translate those words into images and sequences, letting directors, animators, cinematographers, and designers see how the movie will look before filming or animating.

Other storyboards for Sleeping Beauty that have sold at auction have brought fair-market prices usually sell for about $100-150 PER PANEL - you have five panels, making this group worth $500-750 at auction.

Based on the photos and information provided, and subject to examination, this is:

A vintage set of five Disney Sleeping Beauty storyboard panels
late 1950s
Depicting the scene in which Maleficent enters the Royal Court
Ink on paper, matted and framed.
15 1/4 inches by 12 1/4 inches
CONDITION: These appear to be in generally good condition
PROVENANCE: Acquired from a gallery or dealer
$ 500-750*
*represents a fair-market value for auction purposes; retail or asking price may vary.

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~ Delia