The Nine Disney Animated Masterpieces
Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
Gradually candlelight dispels the darkness and reveals Snow White lying serenely beautiful – victim of the Sleeping Death – on a bier inside the dwarf’s cottage, her head resting on a pillow, her lower body covered beneath a sheet. The...
Cross cut back to some festivity at the dwarfs’ cottage where a jolly evening of entertainment contrasts dramatically with the dark evil of the preceding sequence. The camera trucks out of the forest toward a brightly lighted window of the...
After that blackout on Snow White and critters cleaning the cottage, Churchill’s glorious music punctuated with melodic clinking introduces the dwarfs’ song. The film employs effectively what is called in cinematic parlance a “telescoping wipe”, in this case brilliantly modified:...
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...
