The Nine Disney Animated Masterpieces
Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
Panicked by the Prince’s intrusion out of her dreams into her “real” life, Snow White immediately flees from him, running into the castle amidst a flurry of those white doves. The camera follows her escape with a diagonal pan to...
Snow White begins conversing with the doves who have flown along with her and assembled around the rim of the well. Thus is her “special power” established right away: she can communicate with animals and befriend them, which she does...
Walt realized that for winning the hearts and minds of his audience to sympathize with his heroine a fairly realistic human design and movement was absolutely necessary – not to mention for the credibility of the Prince, the Evil Queen...
The film’s opening titles in stark white and teal are cross-faded against a single background of patterned gold. A full orchestra and chorus accompany these with a bombastic version of Frank Churchill’s (1901-1942) melody for the film’s first song, “One...
The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a Bavarian fairytale collected by the brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl (1786–1859), in their 1812 publication Children’s and Household Tales, now familiarly known as simply Grimm’s...
Development on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began in early 1934, and in June 1934, Walt Disney announced the production of his first feature… One evening that same year, Disney acted out the entire story of Snow White and...
Would audiences hold still to watch eighty minutes of drawings on a screen? Nobody knew.[1] Rumor has it that among Hollywood big-wigs and movie critics Walt’s ground-breaking new project became known as “Disney’s Folly”. If this derogative was indeed bruited...
This period was the high point of Walt’s involvement with animation. He was healthy, eager, endlessly creative and completely consumed. This was far more than a job. He lived these pictures every minute of the day, thinking deeply into every...
