Question: Which film was released first, African Cats or Sleeping Beauty?

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The Sleeping Beauty Quartet: The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure.  The quartet comprises "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty", "Beauty's Punishment", "Beauty's Release", and "Beauty's Kingdom", first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015 in the United States.  They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of "Sleeping Beauty".  The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia and pony play.

Sleeping Beauty (1995 film): Sleeping Beauty is a 1995 American-Japanese animated film adapted from the two classic fairy tales, "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault and also by The Brothers Grimm.  Originally released directly to video, the 48-minute film was produced by Jetlag Productions and was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment as part of their "Collectible Classics" line.

Grand Canyon (1958 film): Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions.  It was shown as a supplement during "Sleeping Beauty's" initial run, and it won an Academy Award at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Best Short Subject (Live Action).  It is also included as a bonus feature on the 1997 laserdisc, 2003 DVD, and 2008 DVD & Blu-ray releases of "Sleeping Beauty".

Charles Perrault: Charles Perrault (] ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.  He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.  The best known of his tales include "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood"), "Cendrillon" ("Cinderella"), "Le Chat Botté" ("Puss in Boots"), "La Belle au bois Dormant " ("The Sleeping Beauty"), and "Barbe Bleue" ("Bluebeard").  Some of Perrault's versions of old stories have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later.  The stories continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty"), theatre, and film.  Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.

Brown Bag Films: Brown Bag Films, or Brown Bag, is an Irish-Canadian television animation production studio, based in Dublin, Ireland with a 2D facility based in Manchester, UK.  Best known for its character CGI-animated television series' and short films, including the Oscar nominated "Give Up Yer Aul Sins" and "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty".  Brown Bag Films was established in 1994 by Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell and the studio has garnered a number of awards, including Academy Award nominations for "Give Up Yer Aul Sins" (Best Animated Short Film 2001) and "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Best Animated Short Film 2010), six Emmy Award wins for "Peter Rabbit", an Emmy award for "Bing" and a number of BAFTA, Emmy and Annie nominations for their shows "Octonauts", "Doc McStuffins" and "Henry Hugglemonster".

Sleeping Beauty (1959 film): Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on "The Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault.  The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution.  This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office; the studio did not return to the genre until 30 years later, after Walt Disney died in 1966, with the release of "The Little Mermaid" (1989).

Aurora (Disney): Aurora (also known as Sleeping Beauty or by her alias "Briar Rose") is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 16th animated feature film "Sleeping Beauty" (1959).  Originally voiced by singer Mary Costa, Aurora is the only daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah.  As revenge for not being invited to Aurora's christening, an evil fairy named Maleficent curses the newborn princess, foretelling that she will die on her 16th birthday by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle.  Determined to prevent this, three good fairies raise Aurora as a peasant in order to protect her, patiently awaiting her 16th birthday – the day the spell is to be broken by a kiss from her true love, Prince Phillip.

Sleeping Beauty (1987 film): Sleeping Beauty (alternatively: Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty) is a 1987 American/Israeli fantasy film, part of the 1980 film series Cannon Movie Tales.  It is directed by David Irving and stars Tahnee Welch, Morgan Fairchild, Nicholas Clay and Sylvia Miles.  It is a contemporary version of the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault.  Like the other Cannon Movie Tales, the film was filmed entirely in Israel.

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty: Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty is a six-minute-long CG/flash animated socially satirical black comedy short film written by Kathleen O'Rourke, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O'Connell of Brown Bag Films in 2008.  The plot centers on Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, who loses the plotline as she tells her own version of "Sleeping Beauty" to her terrified granddaughter.

African Cats: African Cats is a 2011 nature documentary film directed by Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill about a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs trying to survive on the African savannah.  The film was released theatrically by Disneynature on Earth Day, April 22, 2011.  The film is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (Patrick Stewart in the UK release).  A portion of the proceeds for the film were donated to the African Wildlife Foundation and their effort to preserve Kenya's Amboseli Wildlife Corridor.  The film's initiative with the African Wildlife Foundation is named "See African Cats, Save the Savanna," and as of May 2, 2011, ticket sales translated into 50,000 acres of land saved in Kenya.

Supporting paragraphs: African Cats Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
Answer: Sleeping Beauty