Posted
on December 21, 2015
A
classic tale of love found, lost, and found again...
Of
evil-queen-turns-witch...
Of true love's kiss and happily ever after!
Walt
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the first
and best of its kind. As a matter of fact, it is THE first
full-length cel animated film, and Walt Disney's first full-length
film.
It's
been awarded and applauded, lauded and loved, re-released and
reimagined and spun off into theme park rides, games, a video game,
and a Broadway musical.
And
it just happens to have been one of my daughter's very favorite
things in the whole world, for a few months.
Snow
White premiered on this date in 1937.
Did
you know...?
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| These are some early ideas for the characters. |
Until
Snow White, animated films had been short, and everyone tried to talk
Disney out of creating Snow White. Even Disney and Disney! Walt
Disney wanted to make the film, but his brother Roy Disney and Walt's
wife Lillian Disney tried to convince Walt not to go through with the
project. Hollywood types shrugged off “Disney's Folly,” and Walt
even had to mortgage his house in order to finish the movie.
The
movie cost an enormous amount – 1.5 million dollars!
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| Disney received his special Academy Award from popular child actor Shirley Temple. |
But
when the movie premiered, it received a standing ovation from a crowd
of stars. Reviewers raved about it, called it art, and recommended it
for adults as well as children. The film earned a special Academy
Award, and it quickly grossed eight million dollars – an enormous,
record-breaking amount at the time!
Over
the years, Snow White has made $185 million in theaters alone. When
you adjust for inflation, it is the tenth highest-grossing movie of
all time!
Of
course, way, way, way more money has been made with the video and all
the merchandise—the dolls, games, books and coloring books, lunch
boxes, Halloween costumes, sheets, figurines, and so much more!
Fun stuff...
- Which of these Snow White characters can you map onto other Disney animated movies?
A princess (or would-be
princess)
A handsome (but boring?) prince (or other leading man)
Absent parent(s)
A jealous stepmother (or
other jealous female villain)
A comic relief animal (or
two or five or...)
Comic relief sidekick(s)
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| "Frozen" is the latest monster hit from Disney! |
Fifty-three
feature-length animated movies later, Disney and its subsidiary
studios have created a whole lot of masterpieces. Still, to some
extent they all owe a huge debt to that first big gamble: Snow
White!
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Very interesting news. My daughter is Disney-tales lover!
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