The History and

Legacy Of Disney’s
Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs
By Melissa O’Shea
Early Version of Snow White
• Original- fairytale by Brother Grimm in 1812
• Broadway- 1912
• Silent Film-1916, (Walt Disney saw this version at 15 years old!)
Disney before Snow White
• Created Mickey Mouse in 1929
• Introduced color and sound to
animation with Silly Symphony
series of musical shorts
Production
 live action references

https://imgur.com/gallery/IZkSR
Marge Champion was the live
action reference for Snow White
Disney studios used rotoscope by
tracing the live action references on
a animated film cells.
celluloid
a transparent sheet used in the process of
hand-drawn animation. Characters were
drawn on cels and superimposed on a fixed
background image to reduce the number of
reproductions necessary to produce an
animation.
Multiplane Camera
Release
The first full length animated feature film
• Released February 4th, 1938 in the USA but was was in previews for
about a month before hand at select theaters
• Grossed 4 million by the end of the 1938 (without inflations)
• $66,596,803 domestically for by the end of the original released (box
office mojo)
• Walt Disney won an honorary Oscar for this film in 1939.
Walt at the
1939
Oscars
International
• Released in 40 countries in 10 languages
The toys
The legacy 1940s and beyond
Disney
Studies
became a
Household
name
 Rereleases and Home Media

• Snow White was rereleased in theaters at

least 10 times since it original release.
• First released on VHS in 1994
• On VHS and DVD in 2001
• Blu ray and a second DVD release in 2009
• The last time it was rereleased on DVD and
Blu ray along with digital was 2016
Accolades
• Star on the Hollywood walk of fame
• In the Library if Congress National Film Registry
• Named The Greatest Animated Film Of All Time by American Film
Institute
Toys today
What’s Next For Snow White
• The 1937 film is celebrating its 85th anniversary this year
• In March 2024 Disney is releasing a live action remake of the
animated classic. After the Success of the live action remakes of
Cinderella , Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and more.
• Staring Rachel Zegler (West Side Story 2021) as Snow White and Gal
Gadot as the Evil Queen
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• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-flashback-80-years-disneys-snow-white-set-animation-standard-1079926/

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• https://www.reddit.com/r/disney/comments/amqo6s/rank_your_top_10_favorite_disney_animated_feature/
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Quigley, Martin, editor. “Snow White Grossed Half of the Production Cost at Music Hall.” Motion Picture Herald, 12 Feb. 1938, pp. 12–16, Internet Archive.

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