CROSS-CUT CLIMAX
It starts with the dwarfs’ arrival at the mine still singing then whistling “Heigh-ho Heigh-ho” as they get down to work – loading the mine cart with their tools and dragging it toward the tunnel. Doc as usual at the...
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PREPPING FOR THE CLIMAX
Another cross-cut back to the old Peddler Woman now advancing through the daylit forest, mumbling to herself still reviewing the niceties of her scheme. She passes beneath a tree in which two vultures perch, watching her. They exchange a knowing...
OFF TO WORK WE GO!
Bright morning sunrise on the dwarfs’ cottage. The animals sleeping outside the front door, including a deer snoozing on the stoop, are startled awake at the click of the doorhandle’s turn. They scatter. Doc emerges followed by Snow White. He...
POISONING THE APPLE
Cross-cut back to the simultaneous action occurring now in the setting of the scene before this extended “Entertainment Sequence”, that laboratory in the depths of the Queen’s palace where she has just transformed herself into an old Peddler Woman. Gradually...
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME
Happy now suggests that the princess “do something” and when she wants to know what, Sleepy suggests she tell them a story. Happy specifies a true story and Bashful wants it to be a love story. As Snow White obliging...
A SILLY SONG (AND DANCE!)
The yodeling intro precedes the song proper. Happy sings the first verse of clever meaningless lyrics followed by a group chorus during which he tap-dances (though silently). The chorus is a model of self-deprecation: “Ho-hum, the tune is dumb; the...
PARTYTIME!
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...
QUEEN’S TRANSFORMATION
Here Walt made another excision, a big one, eliminating the “Soup Eating Sequence”, which had been fully brilliantly and painstakingly animated by another superior early Disney artist, Ward Kimball. Along with it another song bit the dust too, Churchill/Morey’s “The...
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...
