Beauty and the Beast (1946, Fr.) (aka La Belle et La Bete)

In director Jean Cocteau's visual fantasy:

• the fanciful scenes including the one in which Beauty's merchant father (Marcel André), and then Beauty (Josette Day) entered the Beast's (Jean Marais) enchanted and haunted castle and moved down its corridor - with human arm candelabra (that lit themselves) reaching out from the walls
• the magnificent costuming of the Beast himself, who had steaming claws (symbolic of a recent kill of deer), and the image of Beauty's tear that transformed into a diamond