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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

February 15, 2024

For the Disney franchise, see Snow White (franchise).

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first cel animated feature film.[3] The production was supervised by David Hand, and the film's sequences were directed by Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Theatrical release poster by Gustaf Tenggren
Directed bySupervising Director
Sequence Directors
Story by
Based on"Snow White"
by the Brothers Grimm
Produced byWalt Disney
Starring
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1]
Box office$418 million[2]

Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1937. Despite initial doubts from the film industry, it was a critical and commercial success, with international earnings of more than $8 million during its initial release against a $1.5 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1937, and briefly held the record of highest-grossing sound film. It was also the highest-grossing animated film for 55 years. The popularity of the film has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top-ten performers at the North American box office and is still the highest-grossing animated film. Worldwide, its inflation-adjusted earnings top the animation list.[4]

Snow White was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938, and the next year, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film. This award was unique, consisting of one normal-sized, plus seven miniature Oscar statuettes. They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple.[5]

In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry.[6] The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. Disney's take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural effect, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, a Broadway musical, and an upcoming live-action film.

Plot

Having lost both of her parents at a young age, Snow White is a princess living with her wicked and cold-hearted stepmother, the Queen. Fearing that Snow White's beauty will outshine her own, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all." For years, the mirror always answers that the Queen is, pleasing her.

One day, Snow White meets and falls in love with a prince who overhears her singing. On that same day, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now the fairest in all of the land. Angered, the Queen orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and bring back her heart in a jeweled box as proof. The Huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White and reveals to her the Queen's plot. He then urges her to flee into the woods and never return.

Lost and frightened, Snow White is befriended by woodland animals who lead her to a cottage deep in the woods. Finding seven small chairs in the cottage's dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is the untidy home of seven orphaned children. With the animals' help, she proceeds to clean the place and cook a meal. Snow White soon learns that the cottage is the home of seven dwarfs named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who work in a nearby mine. Returning home, they are alarmed to find their cottage clean, and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home. Snow White introduces herself, and the dwarfs welcome her after she offers to clean and cook for them. Snow White keeps house for the dwarfs while they mine for jewels during the day; and at night, they all sing, play music, and dance.

Back at the castle, the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White is still living, and with the dwarfs. Enraged that the Huntsman tricked her, the Queen creates a poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into a death-like sleep. She learns the curse can be broken by "love's first kiss," but is certain Snow White will be buried alive before this can happen. Using a potion to disguise herself as an old hag, the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away. The animals see through the disguise, but are unable to warn Snow White; they rush off to find the dwarfs. The Queen fools Snow White into biting into the apple, and she falls into a death-like slumber.

The dwarfs return with the animals as the Queen leaves the cottage, and give chase, trapping her on a cliff. She tries to roll a boulder onto them, but lightning strikes the cliff before she can do so, causing her to fall and get crushed to death by the boulder. In their cottage, the dwarfs find Snow White asleep by the poison. Unwilling to bury her in the ground, they instead place her in a glass coffin in the forest. Together with the animals, they keep watch over her.

The following spring, the prince learns of Snow White's eternal sleep and visits the coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and awakens her. The dwarfs and animals all rejoice as the prince takes Snow White to his castle.

Voice cast

 
Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in the film's original 1937 theatrical trailer.
  • Adriana Caselotti as Snow White,[7] an innocent and pure-hearted young princess who is forced to hide from her stepmother's jealousy in the cottage of the seven dwarfs.[8]
  • Lucille La Verne as the Queen,[7] Snow White's vain and envious stepmother who seeks to become the "fairest one of all". Disney publications of the 1930s, such as the film's comic strip adaptation,[9] indicate that her actual name is Grimhilde.[10]
    • La Verne also voiced the Witch,[7] the Queen's alter ego that she uses to deceive Snow White.[10]
  • Roy Atwell as Doc,[7] the pompous yet good-hearted leader of the seven dwarfs, who is prone to using malapropisms when he speaks.[11]
  • Pinto Colvig as Grumpy,[7] the most stubborn and easily-irritated of the dwarfs, who initially dislikes Snow White but grows to care for her as the film progresses.[11]
    • Colvig also voiced Sleepy,[7] the most relaxed and drowsiest of the dwarfs.[11]
  • Otis Harlan as Happy,[7] the most cheerful and optimistic of the dwarfs.[11]
  • Scotty Mattraw as Bashful,[7] the most sentimental and shyest of the dwarfs.[11]
  • Billy Gilbert as Sneezy,[7] a dwarf who suffers from hay fever.[11]
  • Eddie Collins as Dopey,[7] the clumsiest and most childlike of the dwarfs, who communicates through sounds and pantomime instead of speaking.[11]
  • Harry Stockwell as the Prince,[7] a romantic young man who falls in love with Snow White and later saves her with a true love's first kiss.[12]
  • Moroni Olsen as the Magic Mirror,[13] a mystical object containing the Queen's familiar demon, from whom she learns that Snow White has become the "fairest one of all".[12]
  • Stuart Buchanan as the Huntsman,[14] the Queen's reluctant servant, whom she orders to kill Snow White. At one point of the film's development, he was intended to be named Humbert.[15]

Production

Development

Walt Disney considered making his first feature-length film as early as in 1933,[16] when his animation studio specialized in producing innovative animated short films, such as the Silly Symphonies series.[17] Although they were popular with the audience, Disney believed that the shorts did not bring enough profit for the further growth of the studio;[18] he also saw the full-length film as a way to expand his "storytelling possibilities",[17] allowing for elaborate plots and character development.[19] By late March 1933,[20] he was approached by Mary Pickford (co-founder of United Artists that was distributing Disney's works at the time) with a proposal for a feature-length animated/live-action version of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865);[16] however, the project was soon scrapped when Paramount Pictures began production of their own film version.[21] Disney then considered using the same concept for a film adaptation of Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) starring Will Rogers,[22] but it did not work out either due to Paramount, which held the rights to the story, refusing to give permission.[23]

After the successful release of the Silly Symphony short Three Little Pigs in May 1933,[16] Disney was strengthened in his decision to make a feature film[24] and began introducing the idea to his staff through a "slow infiltration" – telling everyone about it individually during casual conversations.[16] He also entered into negotiations with Merian C. Cooper to produce a full-length animated version of Victor Herbert's operetta Babes in Toyland (1903) in Technicolor;[25] the project was offered to RKO Radio Pictures, which owned the rights to the play, but RKO executives rejected it.[26][a] In July 1933, Disney first revealed his plans on making a feature film to The Film Daily (although he had not yet managed to find a response from the United Artists executives),[27] and around the same time,[28] he was approached with an offer for an animated version of Felix Salten's novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods (1923) in alliance with Sidney Franklin,[29] who had acquired the rights earlier that year.[30] However, Disney rejected the idea, feeling that his studio was not ready for the technical challenges that Bambi would have presented.[28][b] Homer's poems Iliad and Odyssey, as well as Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels (1726), were also suggested to Disney at the time.[29]

I don't know why I picked Snow White. It's a thing I remembered as a kid. I saw Marguerite Clark in it in Kansas City one time when I was a newsboy. They had a big showing for all the newsboys. And I went and saw Snow White. It was probably one of my first big feature pictures I'd ever seen. That was back in 1916 or something. Somewhere way back. But anyways, to me I thought it was a perfect story. I had the sympathetic dwarfs and things. I had the prince and the girl. The romance. I had the heavy. I just thought it was a perfect story.

Walt Disney, on choosing "Snow White" for his first feature film[18]

Disney settled on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Snow White" (1812) in the spring of 1934.[17] He had been familiar with the story since he was a teenager, having seen the 1916 silent film version, which he would later cite as one of the main reasons for choosing "Snow White" for his first feature production.[31] Disney had originally planned to produce Snow White as a Silly Symphony short,[26] but reconsidered, believing that the story had enough potential for a feature film adaptation.[32] In June 1934, he formally announced the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The New York Times, estimating that the film could be produced for a budget of $250,000, which was roughly ten times the budget of an average Silly Symphony.[33] The project (then known as the "Feature Symphony")[34] was initially developed by a small unit of writers that Disney personally supervised;[18] he introduced his plans to the studio staff at large on October 30, 1934,[35] when the basic story outline was completed.[18] As some animators would later recall,[36] Disney assembled them on the sound stage in the evening and acted out the entire story of Snow White for three hours,[35] concluding with announcement of their first feature film.[37]

Although the studio staff were excited about the project,[38] they were unsure if the audience would be ready for a full-length cartoon.[39] Both Disney's wife Lillian and brother Roy (who was also his business partner) unsuccessfully attempted to talk him out of it,[40] with the movie-industry insiders derisively referring to the film as "Disney's Folly" while it was in production.[41] According to Ward Kimball, they were told by the Hollywood moguls, such as W. C. Fields,[42] that "it was OK, six-seven minutes, like the shorts, but an hour and a half, no way! Big reason was that you run out of funny things to do, you had to have a laugh-a-minute. And the bright colors would hurt your eyes, everybody would get up and walk out ... Walt [Disney], of course, plugged ahead, he didn't believe that. He felt that if you had a solid story, not only laughs in it, but tragedy, it would go."[39]

Early writing

The earliest known story outline – entitled "Manuscript" – was compiled by staff writer Richard Creedon on August 9, 1934,[28][c] featuring twenty-one pages of suggestions for characters, scenes, and songs (including "Some Day My Prince Will Come").[45] At the time, Disney adopted a "wide-ranging approach", remaining open to any idea that could be proposed;[28] notably, one of the suggestions included Snow White traveling through a series of enchanted sites – such as the Sleepy Valley, the Morass of Monsters, and the Valley of the Dragons – before arriving at the dwarfs' cottage.[32] Snow White was originally envisioned to be more tomboyish,[46] with the Queen described as "stately, beautiful in the way of a Benda mask ... a cool serene character who demonstrates her fury only in moments of great passion."[47] One of the potential storylines developed for "Manuscript" involved the Queen imprisoning the Prince in her dungeon, after seeing his affection for Snow White,[48] with the Prince later fighting his way out of her castle with "tricks that Doug Fairbanks would like to have thought."[49] Other story suggestions included the Queen having a collection of her former enemies reduced to a few inches in size;[50] a Gilbert and Sullivan-style musical number for the scene where the Queen orders the Huntsman to kill Snow White;[51] and the sequence of the Queen trying to break the mirror upon learning that Snow White has survived, with the mirror detaching itself from the wall and smashing against the Queen after chasing her around the chamber.[52] Disney also decided from the beginning that each of the Seven Dwarfs – whom he considered the "strongest lure" of the story because of their comedic potential – should have a distinctive personality,[53] identified by a respective name;[54] a pool of over fifty possibilities was compiled for "Manuscript"[55] (with names such as Sleepy, Hoppy, Bashful, Happy, Sneezy-Wheezy, Biggo-Ego, and Awful as the top contenders).[43]

In October 1934, Disney began holding weekly story meetings with a small unit of writers,[36] which included Creedon, Larry Morey, Ted Sears, Albert Hurter, and Pinto Colvig.[53] During the first meeting on October 3, several scenes were proposed: the "Soup Eating" (where Snow White has dinner with dwarfs)[56] and "Bed Building" (where dwarfs build a bed for Snow White)[57] sequences; Snow White teaching the dwarfs to pray; and the climactic scene of the dwarfs chasing the disguised Queen, followed by her death from falling off a cliff.[44] For the next meeting, held on October 9,[44] a typed sheet was complied, featuring a redefined selection of names for the dwarfs – Wheezy, Jumpy, Baldy, Grumpy, Happy, Doc, and Sleepy – and their respective characteristics;[44] several alternatives were also suggested (including Hickey, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Shorty, Wheezy, Burpy, Dizzy, and Dopey).[58] From the outset, Disney decided to discard the part from the Grimms' original story where the Queen tries to kill Snow White with a tightly-laced bodice,[59] but considered retaining the other two attempts (with a poisoned comb and a poisoned apple),[48] both of which were discussed at the meeting.[58] The storyline of the Prince's imprisonment by the Queen, first introduced in "Manuscript",[48] was also elaborated: after failing to kill Snow White with the comb, the Queen would throw the Prince into a dungeon and use magic to make the skeletons of her previous victims dance for him (identifying one skeleton as "Prince Oswald"). When the disguised Queen would have left for the dwarfs' cottage with the poisoned apple, Snow White's bird friends were to help the Prince escape from the dungeon, fight the Queen's guards, and find his horse; the Prince would then go after the Queen, taking the wrong road in the process.[44] Other discussions included the dwarfs' discovery of Snow White in their cottage;[60] two disguises for the Queen – a "fat, bulgy" peddler and a "thin, hawk-faced" witch – for each of her attempts to kill Snow White;[61] and the scene of Snow White kissing the dwarfs goodbye before they leave for work.[62] At the meeting, Disney also insisted that the writers refer to the dwarfs as "seven little men", which was maintained for the rest of the production.[54]

Other examples of the more comical nature of the story at this point included suggestions for a "fat, batty, cartoon type, self-satisfied" Queen.[63] The Prince was also more of a clown and was to serenade Snow White in a more comical fashion. Walt Disney encouraged all staff at the studio to contribute to the story, offering five dollars for every 'gag';[64] such gags included the dwarfs' noses popping over the foot of the bed when they first meet Snow White.

Disney became concerned that such a comical approach would lessen the plausibility of the characters and, sensing that more time was needed for the development of the Queen, advised in an outline circulated on November 6 that attention be paid exclusively to "scenes in which only Snow White, the Dwarfs, and their bird and animal friends appear". The names and personalities of the dwarfs, however, were still "open to change". A meeting of November 16 resulted in another outline entitled 'Dwarfs Discover Snowwhite', which introduced the character of Dopey,[63] who would ultimately prove to be the most successful of the dwarf characterizations.[65] In the original storyboard, Dopey was very talkative, but no suitable voice actors could be found. Mel Blanc was given a try without success. It was suggested to make him mute instead.[66][67] For the rest of 1934, Disney further developed the story by himself, finding a dilemma in the characterization of the Queen, who he felt could no longer be "fat" and "batty", but a "stately beautiful type", a possibility already brought up in previous story meetings.[68]

Reworking

Disney did not focus on the project again until the autumn of 1935. It was believed that the Silly Symphony short The Goddess of Spring (1934) may have placed doubt in his studio's abilities to animate a realistic girl.[68] Apparently, a three-month trip to Europe that summer restored his confidence. At this point, Disney and his writers focused on the scenes in which Snow White and the dwarfs are introduced to the audience and each other.[69] He laid out the likely assignments for everyone working on the film in a memorandum of November 25, 1935 and had decided on the personalities of the individual dwarfs.[70]

It had first been thought that the dwarfs would be the main focus of the story, and many sequences were written for the seven characters. However, at a certain point, it was decided that the main thrust of the story was provided by the relationship between the Queen and Snow White.[71] For this reason, several sequences featuring the dwarfs were cut from the film. The first, which was animated in its entirety before being cut, showed Doc and Grumpy arguing about whether Snow White should stay with them. Another, also completely animated, would have shown the dwarfs eating soup noisily and messily; Snow White unsuccessfully attempts to teach them how to eat 'like gentlemen'. A partially-animated sequence involved the dwarfs holding a "lodge meeting" in which they try to think of a gift for Snow White; this was to be followed by the elaborate 'bed-building sequence', in which the dwarfs and the forest animals construct and carve a bed for the princess. This was also cut, as it was thought to slow down the movement of the story.[71] The soup-eating and bed-building sequences were animated by Ward Kimball, who was sufficiently discouraged by their removal to consider leaving the studio; Disney, however, persuaded him to stay by promoting Kimball to supervising animator of Jiminy Cricket in his next feature Pinocchio (1940).[72]

Casting

For the role of Snow White, Disney was searching for a voice that would be "kind of away from every day… kind of off in another world."[73] Adriana Caselotti was the first actress to be tested for the part[74] in September 1934.[44] She was invited to audition after Disney's casting director telephoned her father, who was a vocal coach, to get some voice talent references;[7] overhearing their conversation, Caselotti picked up the phone to offer her candidacy, singing and bantering in a childlike voice.[8] More than 150 other actresses and singers auditioned for the role,[75] including Deanna Durbin, whose voice sounded too mature for Disney's liking.[18] Virginia Davis, who had portrayed the title character in the Alice Comedies series, was almost cast as Snow White and provided some preliminary live-action reference for the character,[76] but eventually refused, as her mother found the contract unacceptable;[77] Davis herself later elaborated that she also dropped out of the role because her singing was not good enough.[78] However, some miscellaneous vocal tracks, which were provided by Davis, were used in the final film.[79] Caselotti was eventually cast as Snow White in September 1935, exactly one year after her first audition,[44] and recorded her first tracks on January 20, 1936;[76] she was called in for forty-four days of recording sessions within two years,[44] receiving $20 for each day[80] (in total, Caselotti was paid $970).[75] Thelma Hubbard provided Snow White's screams in the forest flight scene[79] and would later voice the character in the film's 1938 Spanish dub and Lux Radio Theatre adaptation.[81]

Story meeting notes from October 9, 1934, indicate that Eddie Holden and Billy Bletcher were initially considered for the role of Doc[44] until Atwell was cast in early 1936.[82] Radio actor John Gibson initially auditioned for the part of Sleepy and recorded some dialogue at a prerecording session in February 1936.[83] After reading about the casting in a Variety article, Gilbert, who was known for his signature sneeze, telephoned Disney to try out for the role. Disney agreed to audition him and, upon witnessing Gilbert's "sneezing routine", hired him on the spot.[84]

The studio auditioned dozens of actresses for role of the Queen[76] before Lucille La Verne was cast because of her "regal, with a lot of depth" voice;[7] several members of Disney's staff, however, contended that her voice was too deep and a bit "old" for the character.[85] La Verne also auditioned for the Witch; the animators initially felt that her voice was "too smooth and not rough enough" for the part,[86] but La Verne managed to achieve the desired result by removing her false teeth.[76] Kenny Baker, who provided vocals for several Silly Symphony shorts, was temporarily considered for the role of the Prince[49] until Stockwell was cast in 1936.[87] His voice acting was performed in the style of the operetta, which was often used in musical films of the 1930s.[18] Reginald Barlow and Cy Kendall originally auditioned for the role of the Huntsman until Buchanan, who was hired in 1936 as a studio casting director and dialogue coach, was cast.[15]

Animation

Art direction

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs features contributions from three European artists who came to work at the Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s.[88] By 1936, Albert Hurter was assigned to supervise the film's art direction;[89] all the designs used in the film, from character costume designs to layouts and backgrounds, had to meet his approval before being finalized.[90] Having had an academic art training, Hurter was instrumental in devising the film's overall Germanic look, incorporating European illustrations and painting techniques into the animation.[91] Ferdinand Horvath, who had been working at the studio since 1934,[92] was also hired as the film's inspirational sketch artist, providing a number of dark concepts for the film. Many of his other designs were ultimately rejected since they were less easily translated into animation than Hurter's, and Hovarth didn't receive a credit for the film.[93] By the spring of 1936, as the animation process begun, Hurter and Hovarth were joined by Gustaf Tenggren. Tenggren was used as a color stylist and to determine the staging and atmosphere of many of the scenes in the film, as his style borrowed from the likes of Arthur Rackham and John Bauer and thus possessed the European illustration quality that Walt Disney sought.[94] He also designed the posters for the film and illustrated the press book. Other artists to work on the film included Joe Grant, whose most significant contribution was the design for the Queen's Witch form.[95]

Character animation

Don Graham really knew what he was teaching, and he "showed" you how to do something – he didn't just talk. He taught us things that were very important for animation. How to simplify our drawings – how to cut out all the unnecessary hen scratching amateurs have a habit of using. He showed us how to make a drawing look solid. He taught us about tension points – like a bent knee, and how the pant leg comes down from that knee and how important the wrinkles from it are to describe form. I learned a hell of a lot from him!

Art Babbitt[96]

Art Babbitt, an animator who joined the Disney studio in 1932, invited seven of his colleagues (who worked in the same room as him) to come with him to an art class that he himself had set up at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Though there was no teacher, Babbitt had recruited a model to pose for him and his fellow animators as they drew. These "classes" were held weekly; each week, more animators would come. After three weeks, Walt Disney called Babbit to his office and offered to provide the supplies, working space and models required if the sessions were moved to the studio. Babbitt ran the sessions for a month until animator Hardie Gramatky suggested that they recruit Don Graham, an art teacher from the Chouinard Institute. Graham taught his first class at the studio on November 15, 1932, and was joined by Philip L. Dike a few weeks later.[33] These classes were principally concerned with human anatomy and movement, though instruction later included action analysis, animal anatomy and acting.[96]

Though the classes were originally described as a "brutal battle", with neither instructor nor students well-versed in the other's craft,[33] the enthusiasm and energy of both parties made the classes stimulating and beneficial for all involved. Graham often screened Disney shorts and, along with the animators, provided critique featuring both strengths and weaknesses. For example, Graham criticised Babbitt's animation of Abner the mouse in The Country Cousin as "taking a few of the obvious actions of a drunk without coordinating the rest of the body", while praising it for maintaining its humour without getting "dirty or mean or vulgar. The country mouse is always having a good time".[96]

The first duty of the cartoon is not to picture or duplicate real action or things as they actually happen—but to give a caricature of life and action—to picture on the screen things that have run thru the imagination of the audience to bring to life dream-fantasies and imaginative fancies that we have all thought of during our lives or have had pictured to us in various forms during our lives [...] I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things, based on the real, unless we first know the real. This point should be brought out very clearly to all new men, and even the older men.

Walt Disney in 1935[97]

Very few of the animators at the Disney studio had had artistic training (most had been newspaper cartoonists); among these few was Grim Natwick, who had trained in Europe. The animator's success in designing and animating Betty Boop for Fleischer Studios showed an understanding of human female anatomy and, when Walt Disney hired Natwick, he was given female characters to animate almost exclusively. Attempts to animate Persephone, the female lead of The Goddess of Spring, had proved largely unsuccessful; Natwick's animation of the heroine in Cookie Carnival showed greater promise, and the animator was eventually given the task of animating Snow White herself. Though live action footage of Snow White, the Prince and the Queen was shot as reference for the animators, the artists' animators disapproved of rotoscoping, considering it to hinder the production of effective caricature. Nevertheless, all of the above-mentioned characters were fully rotoscoped and utilized by their respective artists, some more, some less.[98] Despite Graham and Natwick's objections, however, some scenes of Snow White and the Prince were directly traced from the live-action footage.[96]

It proved difficult to add color to Snow White's and the Queen's faces. Eventually, they found a red dye that worked and which was added with a small piece of cotton wrapped around a tipple pencil on each individual cel. Helen Ogger, an employee at the ink department, was also an animator and decided to use the same system used in animation. The method was so time-consuming that it was never used again on the same scale. It was also used to a smaller degree in Pinocchio and Fantasia but, after Ogger left the studio in 1941, there was no one else with the same skills who could replace her.[99]

Music and records

Main article: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (soundtrack)

The songs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were composed by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey. Paul J. Smith and Leigh Harline composed the incidental music score. Well-known songs from the film include "Heigh-Ho", "Someday My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work". Since Disney did not have its own music publishing company at the time, the publishing rights for the music and songs were administered through Bourne Co. Music Publishers, which continues to hold these rights. In later years, the studio was able to acquire back the music rights from many of their other films, but not Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo or most Silly Symphony cartoons. Snow White became the first American film to have a soundtrack album, released in conjunction with the feature film.

Cinematic influences

At this time, Disney also encouraged his staff to see a variety of films. These ranged from the mainstream, such as MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936)—to which Disney made direct reference in a story meeting pertaining to the scene in which Snow White lies in her glass coffin—to the more obscure, including European silent cinema. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as the two Disney films to follow it, were also influenced by such German expressionist films as Nosferatu (1922) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), both of which were recommended by Disney to his staff. This influence is particularly evident in the scenes of Snow White fleeing through the forest and the Queen's transformation into the Witch. The latter scene was also inspired by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), to which Disney made specific reference in story meetings.[96]

Financial issues

Disney had to mortgage his house to help finance the film's production, which eventually ran up a total cost of $1,488,422.74, a massive sum for a feature film in 1937.[1] Midway through, Disney needed a $250,000 loan to finish the film. Disney ran a rough cut for Joseph Rosenberg of Bank of America, who sat impassively during the showing. Then Rosenberg turned to the worried Disney and said, "Walt, that thing is going to make a hatful of money" and approved the loan.[100]

Release

Original theatrical run

The film's 1937 theatrical trailer.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937.[1] The film received a standing ovation at its completion[101] from an audience that included Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton.[102] Six days later, Walt Disney and the seven dwarfs appeared on the cover of Time magazine.[103] Three weeks later, it opened at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City and a theater in Miami in January 1938,[1] in which the strong box office sales encouraged RKO Radio Pictures to place the film into general release on February 4. It became a major box-office success, becoming the most successful sound film of all time, in which it displaced Al Jolson's The Singing Fool (1928). Snow White would soon be displaced from this position by Gone with the Wind in 1939.[104][105]

Snow White proved equally popular with foreign audiences. In September 1938, Variety reported that the film was having a remarkably long box-office run at theaters in Sydney, Australia. In that city, it noted, "Walt Disney's 'Snow White' (RKO) experienced no difficulty at hitting 11 weeks, with more ahead."[106] Variety reported as well that Snow White was having even longer runs in other cities overseas, such as in London, where the film had generated greater box-office receipts than during its exclusive New York screenings at Radio City Music Hall:

'Snow White' (RKO) is in its 27th week at the New Gallery, London, and will continue to be shown through the regular London release dates, Sept. 19 for North London, and Sept. 26 for South London. There is a likelihood that the New Gallery first-run will run until Christmas. Picture reported to have exceeded $500,000, passing Radio City's five-week mark, which just fell short of the $500,000 mark.[106]

According to RKO, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had earned $7,846,000 in international box office receipts by the end of its original theatrical run.[107] This earned RKO a profit of $380,000.[108]

Re-releases

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first re-released in 1944, to raise revenue for the Disney studio during the World War II period. This re-release set a tradition of re-releasing Disney animated features every few years, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was re-released to theaters in 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1983, 1987 and 1993.[109] As part of Disney's 100th anniversary the film was re-released in cinemas across the UK on August 4, 2023 for one week.[110] Coinciding with the 50th-anniversary release in 1987, Disney released one of many authorized novelizations of the story, this one written by children's author Suzanne Weyn.[111][112]

In 1993, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first film to be entirely scanned to digital files, manipulated, and recorded back to film. The restoration project was carried out entirely at 4K resolution and 10-bit color depth using the Cineon system (10 bits each of red, green and blue—30 in total) to digitally remove dirt and scratches.[113]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has had a lifetime gross of $418 million across its original release and several reissues.[2] Adjusted for inflation, and incorporating subsequent releases, the film still registers one of the top-10 American film moneymakers of all time,[114] and is the highest-grossing animated film.[115]

Critical reaction

The film was a tremendous critical success, with many reviewers hailing it as a genuine work of art, recommended for both children and adults.[116] Although film histories often state that the animation of the human characters was criticized, more recent scholarship found that contemporary reviewers praised the realistic style of the human animation, with several stating that audiences had forgotten that they are watching animated humans rather than real ones.[116] Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times felt that "Mr. Disney and his technical crew have outdone themselves. The picture more than matches expectations. It is a classic, as importantly cinematically as The Birth of a Nation or the birth of Mickey Mouse. Nothing quite like it has been done before; and already we have gone impolite enough to clamor for an encore."[117] Variety observed that "[so] perfect is the illusion, so tender the romance and fantasy, so emotional are certain portions when the acting of the characters strikes a depth comparable to the sincerity of human players, that the film approaches real greatness."[118] Harrison's Reports wrote Snow White was "entertainment that should be enjoyed by every one. Intelligent adults will marvel at the mechanical ingenuity that went into the making of it; and it is something to marvel at, for at times the characters seem lifelike. That is brought about by the expert synchronization of the action with the music and the dialogue."[119]

At the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Academy Honorary Award for Walt Disney "as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field". Disney received a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones, presented to him by 10-year-old child actress Shirley Temple.[5] The film was also nominated for Best Musical Score.[120] "Some Day My Prince Will Come" has become a jazz standard that has been performed by numerous artists, including Buddy Rich, Lee Wiley, Oscar Peterson, Frank Churchill,[121] and Oliver Jones;[122] it was also the title for albums by Miles Davis, by Wynton Kelly, and Alexis Cole.[123]

Noted filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin praised Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a notable achievement in cinema; Eisenstein went so far as to call it the greatest film ever made.[124] The film inspired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to produce its own fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz, in 1939.[125]

Critical re-evaluation and industry recognition

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is referred by many critics as one of the greatest animated films in history. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 4th Greatest Animated Movies ever, calling it the one that “changed the future of animation.”[126] Time magazine ranked the film as the 13th Best Animated films of all time.[127] Harper's Bazaar listed the film as the number one animated film of all time, crediting it as the one that started it all.[128]

In 1987, Snow White was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a rare feat for a fictional character and is currently the only Disney Princess to do so.[129]

The American Film Institute (AFI), an independent non-profit organization created in the United States by the National Endowment for the Arts,[130] releases a variety of annual awards and film lists recognizing excellence in filmmaking. The AFI 100 Years... series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, created categorized lists of America's best movies as selected by juries composed from among over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics, and historians. A film's inclusion in one of these lists was based on the film's popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact.[131] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was selected by juries for inclusion on many AFI lists, including the following:

Home media

On October 28, 1994, the film was released for the first time on home video on VHS and LaserDisc as the first release in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection.[137] The LaserDisc edition contained the film along with several bonus material such as a making-of documentary, an archival interview of Walt Disney, and deleted scenes.[138] By 1995, the film had sold 24 million home video units and grossed $430 million.[139] As of 2002, the film sold 25.1 million home video units in the United States.[140]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released on DVD on October 9, 2001, the first in Disney's Platinum Editions, and featured, across two discs, the digitally restored film, a making-of documentary narrated by Angela Lansbury, an audio commentary by John Canemaker and, via archived audio clips, Walt Disney.[141][142] It sold a record 1 million copies in 24 hours.[143] A VHS release followed on November 27, 2001. Both versions were returned to the Disney Vault on January 31, 2002.[144] As of 2001, the film grossed a combined $1.1 billion from box office and home video revenue.[145]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released on Blu-ray on October 6, 2009, the first of Disney's Diamond Editions, and a new DVD edition was released on November 24, 2009. The Blu-ray includes a high-definition version of the movie sourced from a new restoration by Lowry Digital, a DVD copy of the film, and several bonus features not included on the 2001 DVD. This set returned to the Disney Vault on April 30, 2011.[146]

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment re-released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray and DVD on February 2, 2016, as the first of the Walt Disney Signature Collection line. It was released on Digital HD on January 19, 2016, with bonus material.[147]

In 2023, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, a new 4K restoration of the film was produced and released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on October 10 as part of the Disney100 promotion, making it the oldest feature-length animated film ever to be released in the format. The new remaster was scanned from the original 35mm Technicolor negative through a multi-year effort by Disney's Restoration and Preservation team and key members of Walt Disney Animation Studios, including Eric Goldberg, Michael Giaimo, Dorothy McKim, and Bob Bagley, all of whom also worked on the 4K remaster of Cinderella (1950). On the process, Goldberg remarked "The opportunity to help restore Snow White was both an honor and a challenge ... we owed a debt to history to get it looking as beautiful and as accurate to the original colors as we could."[148][149] This version also began streaming on Disney+ on October 16, 2023.[150]

Legacy

Main article: Snow White (franchise)

Following the film's release, a number of Snow White themed merchandise were sold, including hats, dolls, garden seeds, and glasses. The film's merchandise generated sales of $8 million, equivalent to over $100 million adjusted for inflation.[151] The film's intellectual property has been franchised across a diverse range of mediums, including a Broadway musical, video games, and theme park rides.

Snow White's success led to Disney moving ahead with more feature-film productions. Walt Disney used much of the profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to finance a new $4.5 million studio in Burbank – the location on which The Walt Disney Studios is located to this day.[152] Within two years, the studio completed Pinocchio and Fantasia and had begun production on features such as Dumbo, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.[153]

The film's copyright was renewed in 1965, and as a published work from 1937 it will enter the American public domain on January 1, 2033.[154]

Comics adaptations

The Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip ran a four-month-long adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from December 12, 1937, to April 24, 1938. The comic was written by Merrill De Maris, and drawn by Hank Porter and Bob Grant.[155] This adaptation was republished several times as a comic book, most recently in 1995.[156]

Mondadori, the official Italian publisher of Disney comics, produced several comic book sequels of the 1937 film. The first story was published in 1939.[157]

Theme parks

 
At Disneyland, Snow White and the Evil Queen take a photo with a visitor in 2012.

Snow White's Enchanted Wish (named Snow White's Scary Adventures until 2020) is a popular theme park ride at Disneyland (an opening day attraction dating from 1955),[158] Tokyo Disneyland,[159] and Disneyland Paris.[160] Fantasyland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom[161] underwent an expansion from 2012 to 2014. The Snow White's Scary Adventures ride was replaced with Princess Fairytale Hall, where Snow White and other princesses are located for a meet and greet. Included in the 2013 expansion of Fantasyland is the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster.[162]

Video games

Radio City Music Hall Stage musical

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first Disney-produced musical on the New York stage. Unknown Mary Jo Salerno played Snow White in the Disney-produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (televised as Snow White Live!) at the Radio City Music Hall.[170] Music and lyrics for four new songs were created by Jay Blackton and Joe Cook, respectively; titles included "Welcome to the Kingdom of Once Upon a Time" and "Will I Ever See Her Again?".[171] It ran from October 18 to November 18, 1979, and January 11 to March 9, 1980, a total of 106 performances.[172] A cast album was issued by Buena Vista Records.Walt Disney’s “Snow White at Radio City” on Records |

Canceled prequel

In the 2000s, DisneyToon Studios began development on a computer-animated prequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, titled The Seven Dwarfs. Director Mike Disa and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos pitched a story explaining how the Dwarfs met, and how the Evil Queen killed Snow White's father and took the throne. According to Disa, DisneyToon management changed the prequel's plot to center around how Dopey lost his voice upon witnessing the death of his mother. After Disney purchased Pixar in 2006, John Lasseter, DisneyToons' new Chief Creative Officer, canceled The Seven Dwarfs.[173]

Exhibition

A behind-the-scenes exhibition titled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic took place at The Walt Disney Family Museum from November 15, 2012, to April 14, 2013. The event celebrated the film's 75th anniversary by displaying more than 200 pieces of rare concept art and animation. It also detailed the entire story of the film's production, its release and the worldwide recognition it has earned through the years.[174][175] Two extensive companion books, The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Art and Creation of Walt Disney’s Classic Animated Film were written by J.B. Kaufman and published by Weldon Owen on October 16, 2012.[176][177]

Live-action adaptation

Main article: Snow White (2025 film)

In October 2016, a live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was announced.[178] The script will be written by Erin Cressida Wilson; while Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who also wrote new song material for the 2019 live action adaptation of Aladdin, will write new songs for the project.[178] In 2019, Marc Webb had signed on as director.[179] Principal photography was originally scheduled to begin in March 2020, in Vancouver,[citation needed] but filming was then delayed to the summer or fall of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[180] In May 2021, it was reported that Webb was still attached to direct the film but would not begin work on it until later that year, owing to his schedule with the TV series Just Beyond.[citation needed] On June 22, 2021, Rachel Zegler was cast as Snow White, and production was slated to begin in 2022.[181] Filming took place in the United Kingdom, beginning March 2022.[182] Deadline Hollywood reported on November 3, 2021, that Gal Gadot is in final negotiations to portray the Evil Queen.[183] Gadot confirmed her casting during the premiere of the film Red Notice.[184] During that month, it was reported that Greta Gerwig had worked on the most recent draft on the film's script.[185] On January 12, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Andrew Burnap had been cast in an unspecified "male lead" role, not the prince or huntsman.[186] Peter Dinklage criticized Disney for what he described as "hypocrisy" for being "proud" of casting a Latina actress as Snow White while making a film about "seven dwarfs living in a cave together".[187] Following Dinklage's criticism, Disney announced that the film will use unidentified "magical creatures" in place of them.[188] The film will also simply be titled Snow White due to the absence of the Seven Dwarfs.[189] In March 2022, the set of the film caught on fire at Pinewood Studios just before production began.[190] Filming wrapped in July of that year.[191] During that month, Martin Klebba announced that he would be playing Grumpy.[192]

Other appearances

The Seven Dwarfs made several appearances in shorts, and despite their popularity they were too numerous to animate efficiently. Commissioned shorts The Standard Parade (1939), The Seven Wise Dwarfs (1941, using mostly recycled footage), All Together (1942) and The Winged Scourge (1943) all include appearances.[193]

The 1984 film Gremlins featured the cartoon in the theater scenes.[194]

At the end of the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda Maximoff's sons can be seen watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the television in the living room.[195]


See also

Notes

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  2. ^ Disney eventually purchased the rights to Bambi, a Life in the Woods from Franklin in 1937, releasing his own animated version in 1942.[30]
  3. ^ Some sources attribute the document's authorship to Walt Disney.[43][44]

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snow, white, seven, dwarfs, 1937, film, disney, franchise, snow, white, franchise, snow, white, seven, dwarfs, 1937, american, animated, musical, fantasy, film, produced, walt, disney, productions, released, radio, pictures, based, 1812, german, fairy, tale, b. For the Disney franchise see Snow White franchise Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm it is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first cel animated feature film 3 The production was supervised by David Hand and the film s sequences were directed by Perce Pearce William Cottrell Larry Morey Wilfred Jackson and Ben Sharpsteen Snow White and the Seven DwarfsTheatrical release poster by Gustaf TenggrenDirected bySupervising DirectorDavid Hand Sequence DirectorsPerce Pearce William Cottrell Larry Morey Wilfred Jackson Ben SharpsteenStory byTed Sears Richard Creedon Otto Englander Dick Rickard Earl Hurd Merrill De Maris Dorothy Ann Blank Webb SmithBased on Snow White by the Brothers GrimmProduced byWalt DisneyStarringAdriana Caselotti Roy Atwell Pinto Colvig Otis Harlan Scotty Mattraw Billy Gilbert Eddie CollinsMusic byFrank Churchill Leigh Harline Paul SmithProductioncompanyWalt Disney ProductionsDistributed byRKO Radio PicturesRelease datesDecember 21 1937 1937 12 21 Carthay Circle Theatre February 4 1938 1938 02 04 United States Running time83 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 1 5 million 1 Box office 418 million 2 Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles California on December 21 1937 Despite initial doubts from the film industry it was a critical and commercial success with international earnings of more than 8 million during its initial release against a 1 5 million budget becoming the highest grossing film of 1937 and briefly held the record of highest grossing sound film It was also the highest grossing animated film for 55 years The popularity of the film has led to its being re released theatrically many times until its home video release in the 1990s Adjusted for inflation it is one of the top ten performers at the North American box office and is still the highest grossing animated film Worldwide its inflation adjusted earnings top the animation list 4 Snow White was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938 and the next year producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film This award was unique consisting of one normal sized plus seven miniature Oscar statuettes They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple 5 In 1989 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally historically or aesthetically significant and selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry 6 The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008 Disney s take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural effect resulting in popular theme park attractions a video game a Broadway musical and an upcoming live action film Contents 1 Plot 2 Voice cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Early writing 3 3 Reworking 3 4 Casting 3 5 Animation 3 5 1 Art direction 3 5 2 Character animation 3 6 Music and records 3 7 Cinematic influences 3 8 Financial issues 4 Release 4 1 Original theatrical run 4 2 Re releases 4 3 Critical reaction 4 4 Critical re evaluation and industry recognition 4 5 Home media 5 Legacy 5 1 Comics adaptations 5 2 Theme parks 5 3 Video games 5 4 Radio City Music Hall Stage musical 5 5 Canceled prequel 5 6 Exhibition 5 7 Live action adaptation 5 8 Other appearances 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 8 1 Works cited 9 External linksPlotHaving lost both of her parents at a young age Snow White is a princess living with her wicked and cold hearted stepmother the Queen Fearing that Snow White s beauty will outshine her own the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily who is the fairest one of all For years the mirror always answers that the Queen is pleasing her One day Snow White meets and falls in love with a prince who overhears her singing On that same day the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now the fairest in all of the land Angered the Queen orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest kill her and bring back her heart in a jeweled box as proof The Huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White and reveals to her the Queen s plot He then urges her to flee into the woods and never return Lost and frightened Snow White is befriended by woodland animals who lead her to a cottage deep in the woods Finding seven small chairs in the cottage s dining room Snow White assumes the cottage is the untidy home of seven orphaned children With the animals help she proceeds to clean the place and cook a meal Snow White soon learns that the cottage is the home of seven dwarfs named Doc Grumpy Happy Sleepy Bashful Sneezy and Dopey who work in a nearby mine Returning home they are alarmed to find their cottage clean and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home Snow White introduces herself and the dwarfs welcome her after she offers to clean and cook for them Snow White keeps house for the dwarfs while they mine for jewels during the day and at night they all sing play music and dance Back at the castle the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White is still living and with the dwarfs Enraged that the Huntsman tricked her the Queen creates a poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into a death like sleep She learns the curse can be broken by love s first kiss but is certain Snow White will be buried alive before this can happen Using a potion to disguise herself as an old hag the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away The animals see through the disguise but are unable to warn Snow White they rush off to find the dwarfs The Queen fools Snow White into biting into the apple and she falls into a death like slumber The dwarfs return with the animals as the Queen leaves the cottage and give chase trapping her on a cliff She tries to roll a boulder onto them but lightning strikes the cliff before she can do so causing her to fall and get crushed to death by the boulder In their cottage the dwarfs find Snow White asleep by the poison Unwilling to bury her in the ground they instead place her in a glass coffin in the forest Together with the animals they keep watch over her The following spring the prince learns of Snow White s eternal sleep and visits the coffin Saddened by her apparent death he kisses her which breaks the spell and awakens her The dwarfs and animals all rejoice as the prince takes Snow White to his castle Voice cast nbsp Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in the film s original 1937 theatrical trailer Adriana Caselotti as Snow White 7 an innocent and pure hearted young princess who is forced to hide from her stepmother s jealousy in the cottage of the seven dwarfs 8 Lucille La Verne as the Queen 7 Snow White s vain and envious stepmother who seeks to become the fairest one of all Disney publications of the 1930s such as the film s comic strip adaptation 9 indicate that her actual name is Grimhilde 10 La Verne also voiced the Witch 7 the Queen s alter ego that she uses to deceive Snow White 10 Roy Atwell as Doc 7 the pompous yet good hearted leader of the seven dwarfs who is prone to using malapropisms when he speaks 11 Pinto Colvig as Grumpy 7 the most stubborn and easily irritated of the dwarfs who initially dislikes Snow White but grows to care for her as the film progresses 11 Colvig also voiced Sleepy 7 the most relaxed and drowsiest of the dwarfs 11 Otis Harlan as Happy 7 the most cheerful and optimistic of the dwarfs 11 Scotty Mattraw as Bashful 7 the most sentimental and shyest of the dwarfs 11 Billy Gilbert as Sneezy 7 a dwarf who suffers from hay fever 11 Eddie Collins as Dopey 7 the clumsiest and most childlike of the dwarfs who communicates through sounds and pantomime instead of speaking 11 Harry Stockwell as the Prince 7 a romantic young man who falls in love with Snow White and later saves her with a true love s first kiss 12 Moroni Olsen as the Magic Mirror 13 a mystical object containing the Queen s familiar demon from whom she learns that Snow White has become the fairest one of all 12 Stuart Buchanan as the Huntsman 14 the Queen s reluctant servant whom she orders to kill Snow White At one point of the film s development he was intended to be named Humbert 15 ProductionDevelopment Walt Disney considered making his first feature length film as early as in 1933 16 when his animation studio specialized in producing innovative animated short films such as the Silly Symphonies series 17 Although they were popular with the audience Disney believed that the shorts did not bring enough profit for the further growth of the studio 18 he also saw the full length film as a way to expand his storytelling possibilities 17 allowing for elaborate plots and character development 19 By late March 1933 20 he was approached by Mary Pickford co founder of United Artists that was distributing Disney s works at the time with a proposal for a feature length animated live action version of Lewis Carroll s novel Alice s Adventures in Wonderland 1865 16 however the project was soon scrapped when Paramount Pictures began production of their own film version 21 Disney then considered using the same concept for a film adaptation of Washington Irving s short story Rip Van Winkle 1819 starring Will Rogers 22 but it did not work out either due to Paramount which held the rights to the story refusing to give permission 23 After the successful release of the Silly Symphony short Three Little Pigs in May 1933 16 Disney was strengthened in his decision to make a feature film 24 and began introducing the idea to his staff through a slow infiltration telling everyone about it individually during casual conversations 16 He also entered into negotiations with Merian C Cooper to produce a full length animated version of Victor Herbert s operetta Babes in Toyland 1903 in Technicolor 25 the project was offered to RKO Radio Pictures which owned the rights to the play but RKO executives rejected it 26 a In July 1933 Disney first revealed his plans on making a feature film to The Film Daily although he had not yet managed to find a response from the United Artists executives 27 and around the same time 28 he was approached with an offer for an animated version of Felix Salten s novel Bambi a Life in the Woods 1923 in alliance with Sidney Franklin 29 who had acquired the rights earlier that year 30 However Disney rejected the idea feeling that his studio was not ready for the technical challenges that Bambi would have presented 28 b Homer s poems Iliad and Odyssey as well as Jonathan Swift s book Gulliver s Travels 1726 were also suggested to Disney at the time 29 I don t know why I picked Snow White It s a thing I remembered as a kid I saw Marguerite Clark in it in Kansas City one time when I was a newsboy They had a big showing for all the newsboys And I went and saw Snow White It was probably one of my first big feature pictures I d ever seen That was back in 1916 or something Somewhere way back But anyways to me I thought it was a perfect story I had the sympathetic dwarfs and things I had the prince and the girl The romance I had the heavy I just thought it was a perfect story Walt Disney on choosing Snow White for his first feature film 18 Disney settled on the Brothers Grimm s fairy tale Snow White 1812 in the spring of 1934 17 He had been familiar with the story since he was a teenager having seen the 1916 silent film version which he would later cite as one of the main reasons for choosing Snow White for his first feature production 31 Disney had originally planned to produce Snow White as a Silly Symphony short 26 but reconsidered believing that the story had enough potential for a feature film adaptation 32 In June 1934 he formally announced the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The New York Times estimating that the film could be produced for a budget of 250 000 which was roughly ten times the budget of an average Silly Symphony 33 The project then known as the Feature Symphony 34 was initially developed by a small unit of writers that Disney personally supervised 18 he introduced his plans to the studio staff at large on October 30 1934 35 when the basic story outline was completed 18 As some animators would later recall 36 Disney assembled them on the sound stage in the evening and acted out the entire story of Snow White for three hours 35 concluding with announcement of their first feature film 37 Although the studio staff were excited about the project 38 they were unsure if the audience would be ready for a full length cartoon 39 Both Disney s wife Lillian and brother Roy who was also his business partner unsuccessfully attempted to talk him out of it 40 with the movie industry insiders derisively referring to the film as Disney s Folly while it was in production 41 According to Ward Kimball they were told by the Hollywood moguls such as W C Fields 42 that it was OK six seven minutes like the shorts but an hour and a half no way Big reason was that you run out of funny things to do you had to have a laugh a minute And the bright colors would hurt your eyes everybody would get up and walk out Walt Disney of course plugged ahead he didn t believe that He felt that if you had a solid story not only laughs in it but tragedy it would go 39 Early writing The earliest known story outline entitled Manuscript was compiled by staff writer Richard Creedon on August 9 1934 28 c featuring twenty one pages of suggestions for characters scenes and songs including Some Day My Prince Will Come 45 At the time Disney adopted a wide ranging approach remaining open to any idea that could be proposed 28 notably one of the suggestions included Snow White traveling through a series of enchanted sites such as the Sleepy Valley the Morass of Monsters and the Valley of the Dragons before arriving at the dwarfs cottage 32 Snow White was originally envisioned to be more tomboyish 46 with the Queen described as stately beautiful in the way of a Benda mask a cool serene character who demonstrates her fury only in moments of great passion 47 One of the potential storylines developed for Manuscript involved the Queen imprisoning the Prince in her dungeon after seeing his affection for Snow White 48 with the Prince later fighting his way out of her castle with tricks that Doug Fairbanks would like to have thought 49 Other story suggestions included the Queen having a collection of her former enemies reduced to a few inches in size 50 a Gilbert and Sullivan style musical number for the scene where the Queen orders the Huntsman to kill Snow White 51 and the sequence of the Queen trying to break the mirror upon learning that Snow White has survived with the mirror detaching itself from the wall and smashing against the Queen after chasing her around the chamber 52 Disney also decided from the beginning that each of the Seven Dwarfs whom he considered the strongest lure of the story because of their comedic potential should have a distinctive personality 53 identified by a respective name 54 a pool of over fifty possibilities was compiled for Manuscript 55 with names such as Sleepy Hoppy Bashful Happy Sneezy Wheezy Biggo Ego and Awful as the top contenders 43 In October 1934 Disney began holding weekly story meetings with a small unit of writers 36 which included Creedon Larry Morey Ted Sears Albert Hurter and Pinto Colvig 53 During the first meeting on October 3 several scenes were proposed the Soup Eating where Snow White has dinner with dwarfs 56 and Bed Building where dwarfs build a bed for Snow White 57 sequences Snow White teaching the dwarfs to pray and the climactic scene of the dwarfs chasing the disguised Queen followed by her death from falling off a cliff 44 For the next meeting held on October 9 44 a typed sheet was complied featuring a redefined selection of names for the dwarfs Wheezy Jumpy Baldy Grumpy Happy Doc and Sleepy and their respective characteristics 44 several alternatives were also suggested including Hickey Gabby Nifty Sniffy Lazy Puffy Stuffy Shorty Wheezy Burpy Dizzy and Dopey 58 From the outset Disney decided to discard the part from the Grimms original story where the Queen tries to kill Snow White with a tightly laced bodice 59 but considered retaining the other two attempts with a poisoned comb and a poisoned apple 48 both of which were discussed at the meeting 58 The storyline of the Prince s imprisonment by the Queen first introduced in Manuscript 48 was also elaborated after failing to kill Snow White with the comb the Queen would throw the Prince into a dungeon and use magic to make the skeletons of her previous victims dance for him identifying one skeleton as Prince Oswald When the disguised Queen would have left for the dwarfs cottage with the poisoned apple Snow White s bird friends were to help the Prince escape from the dungeon fight the Queen s guards and find his horse the Prince would then go after the Queen taking the wrong road in the process 44 Other discussions included the dwarfs discovery of Snow White in their cottage 60 two disguises for the Queen a fat bulgy peddler and a thin hawk faced witch for each of her attempts to kill Snow White 61 and the scene of Snow White kissing the dwarfs goodbye before they leave for work 62 At the meeting Disney also insisted that the writers refer to the dwarfs as seven little men which was maintained for the rest of the production 54 Other examples of the more comical nature of the story at this point included suggestions for a fat batty cartoon type self satisfied Queen 63 The Prince was also more of a clown and was to serenade Snow White in a more comical fashion Walt Disney encouraged all staff at the studio to contribute to the story offering five dollars for every gag 64 such gags included the dwarfs noses popping over the foot of the bed when they first meet Snow White Disney became concerned that such a comical approach would lessen the plausibility of the characters and sensing that more time was needed for the development of the Queen advised in an outline circulated on November 6 that attention be paid exclusively to scenes in which only Snow White the Dwarfs and their bird and animal friends appear The names and personalities of the dwarfs however were still open to change A meeting of November 16 resulted in another outline entitled Dwarfs Discover Snowwhite which introduced the character of Dopey 63 who would ultimately prove to be the most successful of the dwarf characterizations 65 In the original storyboard Dopey was very talkative but no suitable voice actors could be found Mel Blanc was given a try without success It was suggested to make him mute instead 66 67 For the rest of 1934 Disney further developed the story by himself finding a dilemma in the characterization of the Queen who he felt could no longer be fat and batty but a stately beautiful type a possibility already brought up in previous story meetings 68 Reworking Disney did not focus on the project again until the autumn of 1935 It was believed that the Silly Symphony short The Goddess of Spring 1934 may have placed doubt in his studio s abilities to animate a realistic girl 68 Apparently a three month trip to Europe that summer restored his confidence At this point Disney and his writers focused on the scenes in which Snow White and the dwarfs are introduced to the audience and each other 69 He laid out the likely assignments for everyone working on the film in a memorandum of November 25 1935 and had decided on the personalities of the individual dwarfs 70 It had first been thought that the dwarfs would be the main focus of the story and many sequences were written for the seven characters However at a certain point it was decided that the main thrust of the story was provided by the relationship between the Queen and Snow White 71 For this reason several sequences featuring the dwarfs were cut from the film The first which was animated in its entirety before being cut showed Doc and Grumpy arguing about whether Snow White should stay with them Another also completely animated would have shown the dwarfs eating soup noisily and messily Snow White unsuccessfully attempts to teach them how to eat like gentlemen A partially animated sequence involved the dwarfs holding a lodge meeting in which they try to think of a gift for Snow White this was to be followed by the elaborate bed building sequence in which the dwarfs and the forest animals construct and carve a bed for the princess This was also cut as it was thought to slow down the movement of the story 71 The soup eating and bed building sequences were animated by Ward Kimball who was sufficiently discouraged by their removal to consider leaving the studio Disney however persuaded him to stay by promoting Kimball to supervising animator of Jiminy Cricket in his next feature Pinocchio 1940 72 Casting For the role of Snow White Disney was searching for a voice that would be kind of away from every day kind of off in another world 73 Adriana Caselotti was the first actress to be tested for the part 74 in September 1934 44 She was invited to audition after Disney s casting director telephoned her father who was a vocal coach to get some voice talent references 7 overhearing their conversation Caselotti picked up the phone to offer her candidacy singing and bantering in a childlike voice 8 More than 150 other actresses and singers auditioned for the role 75 including Deanna Durbin whose voice sounded too mature for Disney s liking 18 Virginia Davis who had portrayed the title character in the Alice Comedies series was almost cast as Snow White and provided some preliminary live action reference for the character 76 but eventually refused as her mother found the contract unacceptable 77 Davis herself later elaborated that she also dropped out of the role because her singing was not good enough 78 However some miscellaneous vocal tracks which were provided by Davis were used in the final film 79 Caselotti was eventually cast as Snow White in September 1935 exactly one year after her first audition 44 and recorded her first tracks on January 20 1936 76 she was called in for forty four days of recording sessions within two years 44 receiving 20 for each day 80 in total Caselotti was paid 970 75 Thelma Hubbard provided Snow White s screams in the forest flight scene 79 and would later voice the character in the film s 1938 Spanish dub and Lux Radio Theatre adaptation 81 Story meeting notes from October 9 1934 indicate that Eddie Holden and Billy Bletcher were initially considered for the role of Doc 44 until Atwell was cast in early 1936 82 Radio actor John Gibson initially auditioned for the part of Sleepy and recorded some dialogue at a prerecording session in February 1936 83 After reading about the casting in a Variety article Gilbert who was known for his signature sneeze telephoned Disney to try out for the role Disney agreed to audition him and upon witnessing Gilbert s sneezing routine hired him on the spot 84 The studio auditioned dozens of actresses for role of the Queen 76 before Lucille La Verne was cast because of her regal with a lot of depth voice 7 several members of Disney s staff however contended that her voice was too deep and a bit old for the character 85 La Verne also auditioned for the Witch the animators initially felt that her voice was too smooth and not rough enough for the part 86 but La Verne managed to achieve the desired result by removing her false teeth 76 Kenny Baker who provided vocals for several Silly Symphony shorts was temporarily considered for the role of the Prince 49 until Stockwell was cast in 1936 87 His voice acting was performed in the style of the operetta which was often used in musical films of the 1930s 18 Reginald Barlow and Cy Kendall originally auditioned for the role of the Huntsman until Buchanan who was hired in 1936 as a studio casting director and dialogue coach was cast 15 Animation Art direction Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs features contributions from three European artists who came to work at the Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s 88 By 1936 Albert Hurter was assigned to supervise the film s art direction 89 all the designs used in the film from character costume designs to layouts and backgrounds had to meet his approval before being finalized 90 Having had an academic art training Hurter was instrumental in devising the film s overall Germanic look incorporating European illustrations and painting techniques into the animation 91 Ferdinand Horvath who had been working at the studio since 1934 92 was also hired as the film s inspirational sketch artist providing a number of dark concepts for the film Many of his other designs were ultimately rejected since they were less easily translated into animation than Hurter s and Hovarth didn t receive a credit for the film 93 By the spring of 1936 as the animation process begun Hurter and Hovarth were joined by Gustaf Tenggren Tenggren was used as a color stylist and to determine the staging and atmosphere of many of the scenes in the film as his style borrowed from the likes of Arthur Rackham and John Bauer and thus possessed the European illustration quality that Walt Disney sought 94 He also designed the posters for the film and illustrated the press book Other artists to work on the film included Joe Grant whose most significant contribution was the design for the Queen s Witch form 95 Character animation Don Graham really knew what he was teaching and he showed you how to do something he didn t just talk He taught us things that were very important for animation How to simplify our drawings how to cut out all the unnecessary hen scratching amateurs have a habit of using He showed us how to make a drawing look solid He taught us about tension points like a bent knee and how the pant leg comes down from that knee and how important the wrinkles from it are to describe form I learned a hell of a lot from him Art Babbitt 96 Art Babbitt an animator who joined the Disney studio in 1932 invited seven of his colleagues who worked in the same room as him to come with him to an art class that he himself had set up at his home in the Hollywood Hills Though there was no teacher Babbitt had recruited a model to pose for him and his fellow animators as they drew These classes were held weekly each week more animators would come After three weeks Walt Disney called Babbit to his office and offered to provide the supplies working space and models required if the sessions were moved to the studio Babbitt ran the sessions for a month until animator Hardie Gramatky suggested that they recruit Don Graham an art teacher from the Chouinard Institute Graham taught his first class at the studio on November 15 1932 and was joined by Philip L Dike a few weeks later 33 These classes were principally concerned with human anatomy and movement though instruction later included action analysis animal anatomy and acting 96 Though the classes were originally described as a brutal battle with neither instructor nor students well versed in the other s craft 33 the enthusiasm and energy of both parties made the classes stimulating and beneficial for all involved Graham often screened Disney shorts and along with the animators provided critique featuring both strengths and weaknesses For example Graham criticised Babbitt s animation of Abner the mouse in The Country Cousin as taking a few of the obvious actions of a drunk without coordinating the rest of the body while praising it for maintaining its humour without getting dirty or mean or vulgar The country mouse is always having a good time 96 The first duty of the cartoon is not to picture or duplicate real action or things as they actually happen but to give a caricature of life and action to picture on the screen things that have run thru the imagination of the audience to bring to life dream fantasies and imaginative fancies that we have all thought of during our lives or have had pictured to us in various forms during our lives I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real unless we first know the real This point should be brought out very clearly to all new men and even the older men Walt Disney in 1935 97 Very few of the animators at the Disney studio had had artistic training most had been newspaper cartoonists among these few was Grim Natwick who had trained in Europe The animator s success in designing and animating Betty Boop for Fleischer Studios showed an understanding of human female anatomy and when Walt Disney hired Natwick he was given female characters to animate almost exclusively Attempts to animate Persephone the female lead of The Goddess of Spring had proved largely unsuccessful Natwick s animation of the heroine in Cookie Carnival showed greater promise and the animator was eventually given the task of animating Snow White herself Though live action footage of Snow White the Prince and the Queen was shot as reference for the animators the artists animators disapproved of rotoscoping considering it to hinder the production of effective caricature Nevertheless all of the above mentioned characters were fully rotoscoped and utilized by their respective artists some more some less 98 Despite Graham and Natwick s objections however some scenes of Snow White and the Prince were directly traced from the live action footage 96 It proved difficult to add color to Snow White s and the Queen s faces Eventually they found a red dye that worked and which was added with a small piece of cotton wrapped around a tipple pencil on each individual cel Helen Ogger an employee at the ink department was also an animator and decided to use the same system used in animation The method was so time consuming that it was never used again on the same scale It was also used to a smaller degree in Pinocchio and Fantasia but after Ogger left the studio in 1941 there was no one else with the same skills who could replace her 99 Music and records This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Main article Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs soundtrack The songs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were composed by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey Paul J Smith and Leigh Harline composed the incidental music score Well known songs from the film include Heigh Ho Someday My Prince Will Come and Whistle While You Work Since Disney did not have its own music publishing company at the time the publishing rights for the music and songs were administered through Bourne Co Music Publishers which continues to hold these rights In later years the studio was able to acquire back the music rights from many of their other films but not Snow White Pinocchio Dumbo or most Silly Symphony cartoons Snow White became the first American film to have a soundtrack album released in conjunction with the feature film Cinematic influences At this time Disney also encouraged his staff to see a variety of films These ranged from the mainstream such as MGM s Romeo and Juliet 1936 to which Disney made direct reference in a story meeting pertaining to the scene in which Snow White lies in her glass coffin to the more obscure including European silent cinema Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as well as the two Disney films to follow it were also influenced by such German expressionist films as Nosferatu 1922 and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 1920 both of which were recommended by Disney to his staff This influence is particularly evident in the scenes of Snow White fleeing through the forest and the Queen s transformation into the Witch The latter scene was also inspired by Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931 to which Disney made specific reference in story meetings 96 Financial issues This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2024 Disney had to mortgage his house to help finance the film s production which eventually ran up a total cost of 1 488 422 74 a massive sum for a feature film in 1937 1 Midway through Disney needed a 250 000 loan to finish the film Disney ran a rough cut for Joseph Rosenberg of Bank of America who sat impassively during the showing Then Rosenberg turned to the worried Disney and said Walt that thing is going to make a hatful of money and approved the loan 100 ReleaseOriginal theatrical run source source source source source The film s 1937 theatrical trailer Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21 1937 1 The film received a standing ovation at its completion 101 from an audience that included Judy Garland Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton 102 Six days later Walt Disney and the seven dwarfs appeared on the cover of Time magazine 103 Three weeks later it opened at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City and a theater in Miami in January 1938 1 in which the strong box office sales encouraged RKO Radio Pictures to place the film into general release on February 4 It became a major box office success becoming the most successful sound film of all time in which it displaced Al Jolson s The Singing Fool 1928 Snow White would soon be displaced from this position by Gone with the Wind in 1939 104 105 Snow White proved equally popular with foreign audiences In September 1938 Variety reported that the film was having a remarkably long box office run at theaters in Sydney Australia In that city it noted Walt Disney s Snow White RKO experienced no difficulty at hitting 11 weeks with more ahead 106 Variety reported as well that Snow White was having even longer runs in other cities overseas such as in London where the film had generated greater box office receipts than during its exclusive New York screenings at Radio City Music Hall Snow White RKO is in its 27th week at the New Gallery London and will continue to be shown through the regular London release dates Sept 19 for North London and Sept 26 for South London There is a likelihood that the New Gallery first run will run until Christmas Picture reported to have exceeded 500 000 passing Radio City s five week mark which just fell short of the 500 000 mark 106 According to RKO Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had earned 7 846 000 in international box office receipts by the end of its original theatrical run 107 This earned RKO a profit of 380 000 108 Re releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first re released in 1944 to raise revenue for the Disney studio during the World War II period This re release set a tradition of re releasing Disney animated features every few years and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was re released to theaters in 1952 1958 1967 1975 1983 1987 and 1993 109 As part of Disney s 100th anniversary the film was re released in cinemas across the UK on August 4 2023 for one week 110 Coinciding with the 50th anniversary release in 1987 Disney released one of many authorized novelizations of the story this one written by children s author Suzanne Weyn 111 112 In 1993 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first film to be entirely scanned to digital files manipulated and recorded back to film The restoration project was carried out entirely at 4K resolution and 10 bit color depth using the Cineon system 10 bits each of red green and blue 30 in total to digitally remove dirt and scratches 113 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has had a lifetime gross of 418 million across its original release and several reissues 2 Adjusted for inflation and incorporating subsequent releases the film still registers one of the top 10 American film moneymakers of all time 114 and is the highest grossing animated film 115 Critical reaction The film was a tremendous critical success with many reviewers hailing it as a genuine work of art recommended for both children and adults 116 Although film histories often state that the animation of the human characters was criticized more recent scholarship found that contemporary reviewers praised the realistic style of the human animation with several stating that audiences had forgotten that they are watching animated humans rather than real ones 116 Frank S Nugent of The New York Times felt that Mr Disney and his technical crew have outdone themselves The picture more than matches expectations It is a classic as importantly cinematically as The Birth of a Nation or the birth of Mickey Mouse Nothing quite like it has been done before and already we have gone impolite enough to clamor for an encore 117 Variety observed that so perfect is the illusion so tender the romance and fantasy so emotional are certain portions when the acting of the characters strikes a depth comparable to the sincerity of human players that the film approaches real greatness 118 Harrison s Reports wrote Snow White was entertainment that should be enjoyed by every one Intelligent adults will marvel at the mechanical ingenuity that went into the making of it and it is something to marvel at for at times the characters seem lifelike That is brought about by the expert synchronization of the action with the music and the dialogue 119 At the 11th Academy Awards the film won an Academy Honorary Award for Walt Disney as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field Disney received a full size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones presented to him by 10 year old child actress Shirley Temple 5 The film was also nominated for Best Musical Score 120 Some Day My Prince Will Come has become a jazz standard that has been performed by numerous artists including Buddy Rich Lee Wiley Oscar Peterson Frank Churchill 121 and Oliver Jones 122 it was also the title for albums by Miles Davis by Wynton Kelly and Alexis Cole 123 Noted filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin praised Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a notable achievement in cinema Eisenstein went so far as to call it the greatest film ever made 124 The film inspired Metro Goldwyn Mayer to produce its own fantasy film The Wizard of Oz in 1939 125 Critical re evaluation and industry recognition Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is referred by many critics as one of the greatest animated films in history Rolling Stone ranked it as the 4th Greatest Animated Movies ever calling it the one that changed the future of animation 126 Time magazine ranked the film as the 13th Best Animated films of all time 127 Harper s Bazaar listed the film as the number one animated film of all time crediting it as the one that started it all 128 In 1987 Snow White was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame a rare feat for a fictional character and is currently the only Disney Princess to do so 129 The American Film Institute AFI an independent non profit organization created in the United States by the National Endowment for the Arts 130 releases a variety of annual awards and film lists recognizing excellence in filmmaking The AFI 100 Years series which ran from 1998 to 2008 created categorized lists of America s best movies as selected by juries composed from among over 1 500 artists scholars critics and historians A film s inclusion in one of these lists was based on the film s popularity over time historical significance and cultural impact 131 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was selected by juries for inclusion on many AFI lists including the following AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies No 49 132 AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition No 34 133 AFI s 10 Top 10 No 1 Animated film 134 AFI s 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains The Queen No 10 Villain 135 AFI s 100 Years 100 Songs Someday My Prince Will Come No 19 136 Home media On October 28 1994 the film was released for the first time on home video on VHS and LaserDisc as the first release in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection 137 The LaserDisc edition contained the film along with several bonus material such as a making of documentary an archival interview of Walt Disney and deleted scenes 138 By 1995 the film had sold 24 million home video units and grossed 430 million 139 As of 2002 the film sold 25 1 million home video units in the United States 140 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released on DVD on October 9 2001 the first in Disney s Platinum Editions and featured across two discs the digitally restored film a making of documentary narrated by Angela Lansbury an audio commentary by John Canemaker and via archived audio clips Walt Disney 141 142 It sold a record 1 million copies in 24 hours 143 A VHS release followed on November 27 2001 Both versions were returned to the Disney Vault on January 31 2002 144 As of 2001 the film grossed a combined 1 1 billion from box office and home video revenue 145 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released on Blu ray on October 6 2009 the first of Disney s Diamond Editions and a new DVD edition was released on November 24 2009 The Blu ray includes a high definition version of the movie sourced from a new restoration by Lowry Digital a DVD copy of the film and several bonus features not included on the 2001 DVD This set returned to the Disney Vault on April 30 2011 146 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment re released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu ray and DVD on February 2 2016 as the first of the Walt Disney Signature Collection line It was released on Digital HD on January 19 2016 with bonus material 147 In 2023 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company a new 4K restoration of the film was produced and released on 4K Ultra HD Blu ray on October 10 as part of the Disney100 promotion making it the oldest feature length animated film ever to be released in the format The new remaster was scanned from the original 35mm Technicolor negative through a multi year effort by Disney s Restoration and Preservation team and key members of Walt Disney Animation Studios including Eric Goldberg Michael Giaimo Dorothy McKim and Bob Bagley all of whom also worked on the 4K remaster of Cinderella 1950 On the process Goldberg remarked The opportunity to help restore Snow White was both an honor and a challenge we owed a debt to history to get it looking as beautiful and as accurate to the original colors as we could 148 149 This version also began streaming on Disney on October 16 2023 150 LegacyMain article Snow White franchise Following the film s release a number of Snow White themed merchandise were sold including hats dolls garden seeds and glasses The film s merchandise generated sales of 8 million equivalent to over 100 million adjusted for inflation 151 The film s intellectual property has been franchised across a diverse range of mediums including a Broadway musical video games and theme park rides Snow White s success led to Disney moving ahead with more feature film productions Walt Disney used much of the profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to finance a new 4 5 million studio in Burbank the location on which The Walt Disney Studios is located to this day 152 Within two years the studio completed Pinocchio and Fantasia and had begun production on features such as Dumbo Bambi Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan 153 The film s copyright was renewed in 1965 and as a published work from 1937 it will enter the American public domain on January 1 2033 154 Comics adaptations The Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip ran a four month long adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from December 12 1937 to April 24 1938 The comic was written by Merrill De Maris and drawn by Hank Porter and Bob Grant 155 This adaptation was republished several times as a comic book most recently in 1995 156 Mondadori the official Italian publisher of Disney comics produced several comic book sequels of the 1937 film The first story was published in 1939 157 Theme parks nbsp At Disneyland Snow White and the Evil Queen take a photo with a visitor in 2012 Snow White s Enchanted Wish named Snow White s Scary Adventures until 2020 is a popular theme park ride at Disneyland an opening day attraction dating from 1955 158 Tokyo Disneyland 159 and Disneyland Paris 160 Fantasyland at Walt Disney World s Magic Kingdom 161 underwent an expansion from 2012 to 2014 The Snow White s Scary Adventures ride was replaced with Princess Fairytale Hall where Snow White and other princesses are located for a meet and greet Included in the 2013 expansion of Fantasyland is the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster 162 Video games Walt Disney s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released for the Game Boy Color system in 2001 163 Snow White also makes an appearance in the PlayStation 2 game Kingdom Hearts as one of the seven fabled Princesses of Heart 164 A world based on the movie Dwarf Woodlands appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep for the PSP 165 In 2013 s free to play mobile game Snow White Queen s Return also known as Seven Dwarfs The Queen s Return 166 an uncanonical continuation of the film the Queen has survived the fall at the climax of the film and then reverted to her youthful form to cast a curse on Snow White and the dwarfs and their entire forest 167 The world builder video game Disney Magic Kingdoms includes Snow White all the Seven Dwarfs the Queen and Prince Charming as playable characters as well as attractions such as Magic Mirror on the Wall Seven Dwarfs Cottage Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Snow White s Scary Adventures 168 169 Radio City Music Hall Stage musical Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first Disney produced musical on the New York stage Unknown Mary Jo Salerno played Snow White in the Disney produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs televised as Snow White Live at the Radio City Music Hall 170 Music and lyrics for four new songs were created by Jay Blackton and Joe Cook respectively titles included Welcome to the Kingdom of Once Upon a Time and Will I Ever See Her Again 171 It ran from October 18 to November 18 1979 and January 11 to March 9 1980 a total of 106 performances 172 A cast album was issued by Buena Vista Records Walt Disney s Snow White at Radio City on Records Canceled prequel In the 2000s DisneyToon Studios began development on a computer animated prequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs titled The Seven Dwarfs Director Mike Disa and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos pitched a story explaining how the Dwarfs met and how the Evil Queen killed Snow White s father and took the throne According to Disa DisneyToon management changed the prequel s plot to center around how Dopey lost his voice upon witnessing the death of his mother After Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 John Lasseter DisneyToons new Chief Creative Officer canceled The Seven Dwarfs 173 Exhibition A behind the scenes exhibition titled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Creation of a Classic took place at The Walt Disney Family Museum from November 15 2012 to April 14 2013 The event celebrated the film s 75th anniversary by displaying more than 200 pieces of rare concept art and animation It also detailed the entire story of the film s production its release and the worldwide recognition it has earned through the years 174 175 Two extensive companion books The Fairest One of All The Making of Walt Disney s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Art and Creation of Walt Disney s Classic Animated Film were written by J B Kaufman and published by Weldon Owen on October 16 2012 176 177 Live action adaptation Main article Snow White 2025 film In October 2016 a live action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was announced 178 The script will be written by Erin Cressida Wilson while Benj Pasek and Justin Paul who also wrote new song material for the 2019 live action adaptation of Aladdin will write new songs for the project 178 In 2019 Marc Webb had signed on as director 179 Principal photography was originally scheduled to begin in March 2020 in Vancouver citation needed but filming was then delayed to the summer or fall of 2020 because of the COVID 19 pandemic 180 In May 2021 it was reported that Webb was still attached to direct the film but would not begin work on it until later that year owing to his schedule with the TV series Just Beyond citation needed On June 22 2021 Rachel Zegler was cast as Snow White and production was slated to begin in 2022 181 Filming took place in the United Kingdom beginning March 2022 182 Deadline Hollywood reported on November 3 2021 that Gal Gadot is in final negotiations to portray the Evil Queen 183 Gadot confirmed her casting during the premiere of the film Red Notice 184 During that month it was reported that Greta Gerwig had worked on the most recent draft on the film s script 185 On January 12 2022 The Hollywood Reporter reported that Andrew Burnap had been cast in an unspecified male lead role not the prince or huntsman 186 Peter Dinklage criticized Disney for what he described as hypocrisy for being proud of casting a Latina actress as Snow White while making a film about seven dwarfs living in a cave together 187 Following Dinklage s criticism Disney announced that the film will use unidentified magical creatures in place of them 188 The film will also simply be titled Snow White due to the absence of the Seven Dwarfs 189 In March 2022 the set of the film caught on fire at Pinewood Studios just before production began 190 Filming wrapped in July of that year 191 During that month Martin Klebba announced that he would be playing Grumpy 192 Other appearances The Seven Dwarfs made several appearances in shorts and despite their popularity they were too numerous to animate efficiently Commissioned shorts The Standard Parade 1939 The Seven Wise Dwarfs 1941 using mostly recycled footage All Together 1942 and The Winged Scourge 1943 all include appearances 193 The 1984 film Gremlins featured the cartoon in the theater scenes 194 At the end of the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Wanda Maximoff s sons can be seen watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the television in the living room 195 See alsoList of animated feature length films List of Disney animated features List of Disney animated films based on fairy talesPortals nbsp Disney nbsp Film nbsp United States nbsp CartoonNotes Disney eventually produced his version of Babes in Toyland as a live action film released in 1961 Disney eventually purchased the rights to Bambi a Life in the Woods from Franklin in 1937 releasing his own animated version in 1942 30 Some sources attribute the document s authorship to Walt Disney 43 44 References a b c d Barrier 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