Monthly Archive: September 2023

BLUDDLE-UDDLE-UM-DUM!

Dashing down the stairs and across to the fireplace, Snow White uses a cloth to swing the stewpot off the fire and to lift the lid. She samples its contents with a spoon. The dwarfs assemble on the landing outside...

THE BEDROOM SEQUENCE

Assigned to Fred Moore (1911-1952) this “Bedroom Sequence” – as it became known – was one of the first to be animated. Snow White yawns and stretches and starts to wonder whether the “children” have returned then notices seven pairs...

HOME INTRUDER!

As noted in Disney historian Leonard Maltin’s 1973 book The Disney Films, there is much “cross-cutting” in subsequent sequences of Snow White. The first of these happens now, as the film “cuts” from the dwarfs’ march home back to their...