Crossfade quickly out of the darkness to Queen Grimhilda (her name is never mentioned in the film) seated upon her magnificent throne with peacock feathers splayed behind it. She is addressing someone in front of her with instructions to take...
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...
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"I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child innocence. The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars."