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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Overview:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was a Animation - Family Film directed by William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney.

The film was based on the books Snow White from (Kinder - und Hausmärchen) written by The Brothers Grimm published in 1857.

SYNOPSIS

Disney's first full-length animated masterpiece is perhaps the "fairest of them all" in the history of animation. Walt Disney took a big risk making this adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale (it took two years and cost $1.5 million). While many scoffed at the idea, Disney had the last laugh as generations have been delighted by this tale of pure and simple love. Because a jealous queen wants her dead, Snow White flees into the forest where she's taken in by seven little diamond-mine workers. A poisonous apple sent by the queen puts her soundly to sleep until her Prince Charming rouses her with a kiss. The animators modeled their work on live actors (Margary Belcher as Snow White, Louis Hightower as the Prince, and La Verne as the evil Queen). Great music and spectacular images make classic family entertainment. And who can't sing along with "Heigh Ho," "Whistle While You Work," and "Someday My Prince Will Come."

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989.

Academy Awards 1938 --- Ceremony Number 11 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringWalt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, LNominated
Special AwardTo Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.Won
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs BlogHub Articles:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Happy Anniversary! Premiered, Tuesday, December 21st, 1937 (2)

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Happy Anniversary! Premiered, Tuesday, December 21st, 1937

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Happy Anniversary! Premiered, Tuesday, December 21st, 1937

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Quotes:

Magic Mirror: Prepare to be amazed beyond all expectations. After all it is what I do.
Queen: Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through.
[the poison on the apple forms a skull]
Queen: Look! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now, turn red, to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite.
Queen: [offering the apple to the raven] Have a bite?
[the raven flaps wildly, trying to escape]
Queen: [laughing] It's not for you, it's for Snow White. When she breaks the tender peel, to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal, then I'll be fairest in the land!
Snow White: [to the Dwarfs] That was fun.
Snow White: Want to know a secret? / Promise not to tell? / We are standing by a wishing well / Make a wish into the well / that's all you have to do / And if you hear it echoing / Your wish will soon come true.
Snow White: I'm wishing.
Snow White's Echo: I'm wishing.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Facts
When comedian Billy Gilbert found out that one of the dwarfs' names was Sneezy he called up Walt Disney and gave him his famous sneezing gag and got the part.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first release in Disney's new Platinum Edition DVD series, hitting stores on October 5, 2001. On its first day, more than 1 million copies were sold.
Because Walt Disney Pictures did not have its own music publishing company when the earlier animated films were produced, all the rights to publish the music and songs from this film are actually still controlled by the Bourne Co. In later years, the Studio was able to acquire back the rights to the music from all of the other films, except this one. Prior to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a movie soundtrack recording was unheard of and with little value to a movie studio.
At a recording session, Lucille La Verne, the voice of the Wicked Queen, was told by Walt Disney's animators that they needed an older, raspier version of the Queen's voice for the Old Witch. Ms. Laverne stepped out of the recording booth, returned a few minutes later, and gave a perfect "Old Hag's voice" that stunned the animators. When asked how she did it, she replied, "Oh, I just took my teeth out."
The first animated feature to be selected for the National Film Registry.
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