Snow White
and the
Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Producer:
Walt Disney
Supervising Director:
David Hand
Written by:
Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander,
Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merill De Maris,
Dorothy Ann Blank & Webb Smith
Based On “Snow White”
by The Brothers Grimm
The Film’s Successes,
Contribution to Cinema & Legacy
Walt Disney’s masterpiece that changed the Disney company and film forever.
The Gold Standard for Disney Films, Storytelling, Animation & Music.
Critically & Commercially Successful; the most watched film up to that time, earning $8M+ on original release, as well as achieving international success.
The 1st Feature Length Animated Film.
One of the 1st Feature Film Musicals.
The film premiere saw it receive a standing ovation, with people joyful and moved to tears; most notable as it was the first time a cartoon showed life and death in a story, presenting pathos and tragedy in Snow White’s “death” as well as the perfect happy ending.
The 1st Film with consumer merchandise – toys, games and the first to release its musical soundtrack on phonograph records.
Walt Disney received a special honorary Oscar for the film and seven little Oscar awards presented to him by Shirley Temple.
MGM’s “The Wizard of Oz” was created and inspired by the film’s success as a fantasy film.
Walt Disney explained the film’s success and universal love from millions around the world is because… “Over at our place we are sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child, so in planning a new picture we don’t think of grown ups and we don’t think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and maybe our pictures can help recall…”