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Title:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Synopsis:
OSCAR WINNER - 1937
• Honorary Oscar - one standard sized Oscar and seven miniature-sized Oscars
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE:
• 100 Years… 100 Movies (1998): #49
• 100 Years… 100 Heroes & Villains (2003):
- Queen (villain #10)
• 100 Years… 100 Songs (2004):
- “Someday My Prince Will Come” (#19)
• 100 Years… 100 Movies - 10th Anniv. Edition (2007): #34
• Ten Top 10 (2008): #1 Animation
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY: 1989
The One That Started It All - Is Changing It All. The Movie That Defined Animation Is Redefining DVD.
The curtain rises on Disney’s most ambitious, most immersive DVD experience ever! At center stage is Walt Disney’s revered animated masterpiece - digitally restored for picture and sound that goes beyond its original brilliance. Then, let the Magic Mirror be your personal guide as you “walk” through a virtual gallery of the Queen’s castle. “Race” through the tunnels of the dwarfs’ mine to save Snow White. Treat yourself to Barbra Streisand’s rendition of “Someday My Prince Will Come.” Explore five enchanted lands of Snow White’s kingdom and discover an interactive timeline featuring eight celebrity hosts, Walt Disney’s personal commentary, deleted scenes, abandoned concepts and more. Or, if you prefer, sit back, relax and take a VIP guided tour of this first-of-it’s-kind Disney DVD for every generation!
TRIVIA:
• At a recording session, Lucille LaVerne who performed the voice of the Wicked Queen, was told by 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.”
• Some animators were opposed to the name Dopey, claiming that it was too modern a word to use in a timeless fairy tale. Walt Disney made the argument that William Shakespeare used the word in one of his plays. This managed to convince everyone, although any reference to the term ”dopey” is yet to be found in any of Shakespeare’s work.
• Adjusted for inflation, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS is still the highest grossing animated film of all time.
• Walt Disney wanted to keep Snow White’s voice as a special one-time sound and held Adriana Caselotti to a very strict contract. Except for a very small bit part in MGM’s THE WIZARD OF OZ, she never had a real singing part in a movie again, despite being a classically trained singer.
• The special Academy Award given to the film consisted of one standard-sized Oscar statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base.
• Held the title of highest grossing film ever for exactly one year, after which it was knocked out of the top spot by GONE WITH THE WIND.
• The trees that grab at Snow White’s dress were based on unique Garry Oak trees, found on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Walt Disney had toured through this area and noted their eerie, twisting shapes.
• Convinced that it would fail, the Hollywood film industry labeled the film ”Disney’s Folly”.
• Walt Disney came up with the idea for the film when he was only 15, working as a newsboy in Kansas City. He saw a major presentation of a silent film version of SNOW WHITE starring Marguerite Clark. The screening was held at the city’s Convention Hall in February 1917 and the film was projected onto a four-sided screen using four separate projectors. The film made a tremendous impression on the young viewer because he was sitting where he could see two sides of the screen at once and they were not quite in sync.
• The film was also going to include all three of the Queen’s assassination attempts (bodice suffocation, poison comb, and the poison apple) but eventually streamlined it to just the apple instead. Up until very late in production, just the bodice was cut, with the comb remaining.
• This was the first film to ever have a soundtrack recording album released for it. Because Walt Disney Pictures did not have its own music publishing company when the later animated films were produced, all the rights to 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 for this film. Prior to SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, a film soundtrack recording was unheard of and with little value to a film studio.
• As it is widely known, every country where the film has been translated has its own set of seven names for the Dwarfs, including Germany, home of the original fairy tale. However, in the original tale (by brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm) the dwarfs have no individual names at all.
• One of the first films to have related merchandise available at the time of its premiere.
• Snow White is the youngest Disney Princess at age 14, even though she easily looks to be around 18 or 19.
• Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora can communicate with animals. Also, all three of these classic princesses wore peasant clothes in their introductory scene of each film.
• The first animated film to be selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
• Despite the original design for Snow White being made after Betty Boop, Walt Disney threw this concept out as he wanted Snow White to be wholesome, innocent and clothed in a demure, down-to-earth style rather than being sexy.
• Made four times as much revenue as any other film in 1938.
• ’Jiminy Crickets’ is mentioned twice by the dwarfs. It’s an old expression usually used to express surprise. It was also used once in MGM’s THE WIZARD OF OZ two years later.
• SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood, CA on December 21, 1937 and was a star-studded event with celebrities including Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich in attendance. The entire future of the Disney studio was riding on the success of this film, and to Walt’s great delight, the entire audience rose to its feet at the film’s conclusion with a thunderous ovation. The film had its general nationwide release on February 4, 1938. By the time the initial release finished its run, it had grossed $3.5 million in the United States and Canada and by May 1939 its total international gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful film of all time. The film was re-issued in the US in February 1944, February 1952, February 1958, June 1967 (in commemoration of the film’s 30th anniversary), December 1975, July 1983, July 1987 (in commemoration of it’s 50th anniversary), July 1993 and most recently on September 29, 2012 as part of the annual New York Film Festival. The film had its home video debut on October 28, 1994, released on VHS and Laserdisc as the first release in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. For it’s second home video release (and first digital release on DVD) it became the first release in Disney’s Platinum Edition DVD series, hitting stores on October 9, 2001. On its first day, more than 1 million copies were sold. It was reissued again on October 6, 2009 (making its high definition debut on Blu-ray) as the first release in Disney’s Diamond Edition series. The film was reissued yet again in high definition (Blu-ray included with a Digital HD release on February 2, 2016) as the first release in the Walt Disney Signature Collection series. It’s most recent release (as of April 2022) on Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Code was on March 22, 2022 as a release exclusive to the Disney Movie Club which included the special bonus featurette 10 WAYS SNOW WHITE CHANGED ANIMATION FOREVER.
• The film’s US television debut was on Saturday, March 17, 2010 on the ABC FAMILY network. It’s world television premiere was in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1955.
• The film was to open with scenes involving Snow White’s mother, but had to be cut to avoid the wrath of the censor.
• SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS was inducted into the National Film Registry in December 1989 (the organization’s inaugural year) alongside 24 other films regarded as being among the most important film classics of all time including GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, SOME LIKE IT HOT, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, ON THE WATERFRONT, SUNSET BLVD, HIGH NOON, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, DR STRANGELOVE and VERTIGO. Every year since, the National Film Registry has inducted 25 carefully selected motion pictures for preservation under the criteria of being “historically, culturally and aesthetically contributive.”
• The world’s first animated feature film.
• Harry Stockwell, the voice of the Prince, was the father of actors Guy Stockwell and Dean Stockwell.
• ”Lux Radio Theater” broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the film on December 26, 1938 with many of the film’s voice artists reprising their film roles.
• Considered to be one of the fifteen films that changed American cinema.
• In the dwarves’ home, almost every wooden surface has an animal carved into it. Almost every item is carved into the shape of an animal. Even the shape of each stair-step is the face of an owl. Only the door to the bedroom looks to have smiling human-shaped creatures on it.
• Disney announced on October 31, 2016 that a live action adaptation is in the works.
• The Evil Queen is pictured on one of ten USA commemorative stamps celebrating ”Disney Villains”, issued as a pane of 20 stamps on July 15, 2017. The set was issued in a single sheet of 20 stamps. The other villains depicted in this issue are as follows:
– Honest John (PINOCCHIO)
– Lady Tremaine (CINDERELLA)
– the Queen of Hearts (ALICE IN WONDERLAND)
– Captain Hook (PETER PAN)
– Maleficent (SLEEPING BEAUTY)
– Cruella De Vil (101 DALMATIANS)
– Ursula (THE LITTLE MERMAID)
– Gaston (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)
– Scar (THE LION KING)
• Honorary Oscar - one standard sized Oscar and seven miniature-sized Oscars
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE:
• 100 Years… 100 Movies (1998): #49
• 100 Years… 100 Heroes & Villains (2003):
- Queen (villain #10)
• 100 Years… 100 Songs (2004):
- “Someday My Prince Will Come” (#19)
• 100 Years… 100 Movies - 10th Anniv. Edition (2007): #34
• Ten Top 10 (2008): #1 Animation
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY: 1989
The One That Started It All - Is Changing It All. The Movie That Defined Animation Is Redefining DVD.
The curtain rises on Disney’s most ambitious, most immersive DVD experience ever! At center stage is Walt Disney’s revered animated masterpiece - digitally restored for picture and sound that goes beyond its original brilliance. Then, let the Magic Mirror be your personal guide as you “walk” through a virtual gallery of the Queen’s castle. “Race” through the tunnels of the dwarfs’ mine to save Snow White. Treat yourself to Barbra Streisand’s rendition of “Someday My Prince Will Come.” Explore five enchanted lands of Snow White’s kingdom and discover an interactive timeline featuring eight celebrity hosts, Walt Disney’s personal commentary, deleted scenes, abandoned concepts and more. Or, if you prefer, sit back, relax and take a VIP guided tour of this first-of-it’s-kind Disney DVD for every generation!
TRIVIA:
• At a recording session, Lucille LaVerne who performed the voice of the Wicked Queen, was told by 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.”
• Some animators were opposed to the name Dopey, claiming that it was too modern a word to use in a timeless fairy tale. Walt Disney made the argument that William Shakespeare used the word in one of his plays. This managed to convince everyone, although any reference to the term ”dopey” is yet to be found in any of Shakespeare’s work.
• Adjusted for inflation, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS is still the highest grossing animated film of all time.
• Walt Disney wanted to keep Snow White’s voice as a special one-time sound and held Adriana Caselotti to a very strict contract. Except for a very small bit part in MGM’s THE WIZARD OF OZ, she never had a real singing part in a movie again, despite being a classically trained singer.
• The special Academy Award given to the film consisted of one standard-sized Oscar statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base.
• Held the title of highest grossing film ever for exactly one year, after which it was knocked out of the top spot by GONE WITH THE WIND.
• The trees that grab at Snow White’s dress were based on unique Garry Oak trees, found on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Walt Disney had toured through this area and noted their eerie, twisting shapes.
• Convinced that it would fail, the Hollywood film industry labeled the film ”Disney’s Folly”.
• Walt Disney came up with the idea for the film when he was only 15, working as a newsboy in Kansas City. He saw a major presentation of a silent film version of SNOW WHITE starring Marguerite Clark. The screening was held at the city’s Convention Hall in February 1917 and the film was projected onto a four-sided screen using four separate projectors. The film made a tremendous impression on the young viewer because he was sitting where he could see two sides of the screen at once and they were not quite in sync.
• The film was also going to include all three of the Queen’s assassination attempts (bodice suffocation, poison comb, and the poison apple) but eventually streamlined it to just the apple instead. Up until very late in production, just the bodice was cut, with the comb remaining.
• This was the first film to ever have a soundtrack recording album released for it. Because Walt Disney Pictures did not have its own music publishing company when the later animated films were produced, all the rights to 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 for this film. Prior to SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, a film soundtrack recording was unheard of and with little value to a film studio.
• As it is widely known, every country where the film has been translated has its own set of seven names for the Dwarfs, including Germany, home of the original fairy tale. However, in the original tale (by brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm) the dwarfs have no individual names at all.
• One of the first films to have related merchandise available at the time of its premiere.
• Snow White is the youngest Disney Princess at age 14, even though she easily looks to be around 18 or 19.
• Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora can communicate with animals. Also, all three of these classic princesses wore peasant clothes in their introductory scene of each film.
• The first animated film to be selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
• Despite the original design for Snow White being made after Betty Boop, Walt Disney threw this concept out as he wanted Snow White to be wholesome, innocent and clothed in a demure, down-to-earth style rather than being sexy.
• Made four times as much revenue as any other film in 1938.
• ’Jiminy Crickets’ is mentioned twice by the dwarfs. It’s an old expression usually used to express surprise. It was also used once in MGM’s THE WIZARD OF OZ two years later.
• SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood, CA on December 21, 1937 and was a star-studded event with celebrities including Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich in attendance. The entire future of the Disney studio was riding on the success of this film, and to Walt’s great delight, the entire audience rose to its feet at the film’s conclusion with a thunderous ovation. The film had its general nationwide release on February 4, 1938. By the time the initial release finished its run, it had grossed $3.5 million in the United States and Canada and by May 1939 its total international gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful film of all time. The film was re-issued in the US in February 1944, February 1952, February 1958, June 1967 (in commemoration of the film’s 30th anniversary), December 1975, July 1983, July 1987 (in commemoration of it’s 50th anniversary), July 1993 and most recently on September 29, 2012 as part of the annual New York Film Festival. The film had its home video debut on October 28, 1994, released on VHS and Laserdisc as the first release in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. For it’s second home video release (and first digital release on DVD) it became the first release in Disney’s Platinum Edition DVD series, hitting stores on October 9, 2001. On its first day, more than 1 million copies were sold. It was reissued again on October 6, 2009 (making its high definition debut on Blu-ray) as the first release in Disney’s Diamond Edition series. The film was reissued yet again in high definition (Blu-ray included with a Digital HD release on February 2, 2016) as the first release in the Walt Disney Signature Collection series. It’s most recent release (as of April 2022) on Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Code was on March 22, 2022 as a release exclusive to the Disney Movie Club which included the special bonus featurette 10 WAYS SNOW WHITE CHANGED ANIMATION FOREVER.
• The film’s US television debut was on Saturday, March 17, 2010 on the ABC FAMILY network. It’s world television premiere was in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1955.
• The film was to open with scenes involving Snow White’s mother, but had to be cut to avoid the wrath of the censor.
• SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS was inducted into the National Film Registry in December 1989 (the organization’s inaugural year) alongside 24 other films regarded as being among the most important film classics of all time including GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, SOME LIKE IT HOT, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, ON THE WATERFRONT, SUNSET BLVD, HIGH NOON, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, DR STRANGELOVE and VERTIGO. Every year since, the National Film Registry has inducted 25 carefully selected motion pictures for preservation under the criteria of being “historically, culturally and aesthetically contributive.”
• The world’s first animated feature film.
• Harry Stockwell, the voice of the Prince, was the father of actors Guy Stockwell and Dean Stockwell.
• ”Lux Radio Theater” broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the film on December 26, 1938 with many of the film’s voice artists reprising their film roles.
• Considered to be one of the fifteen films that changed American cinema.
• In the dwarves’ home, almost every wooden surface has an animal carved into it. Almost every item is carved into the shape of an animal. Even the shape of each stair-step is the face of an owl. Only the door to the bedroom looks to have smiling human-shaped creatures on it.
• Disney announced on October 31, 2016 that a live action adaptation is in the works.
• The Evil Queen is pictured on one of ten USA commemorative stamps celebrating ”Disney Villains”, issued as a pane of 20 stamps on July 15, 2017. The set was issued in a single sheet of 20 stamps. The other villains depicted in this issue are as follows:
– Honest John (PINOCCHIO)
– Lady Tremaine (CINDERELLA)
– the Queen of Hearts (ALICE IN WONDERLAND)
– Captain Hook (PETER PAN)
– Maleficent (SLEEPING BEAUTY)
– Cruella De Vil (101 DALMATIANS)
– Ursula (THE LITTLE MERMAID)
– Gaston (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)
– Scar (THE LION KING)
Format:
DVD
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Movie Release Year:
1937
Rating:
G
Barcode:
9787884030576
Genre:
Animation
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Subgenre:
Children
Show Type:
Movie
Series:
Platinum Collection
Date Added:
2018-02-07 17:59:50
Original Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Actors:
Adriana Caselotti
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Directors:
David Hand
William Cottrell
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Runtime:
83
Country of Purchase:
United States
Release Date:
2001-10-09
Studios:
Walt Disney Pictures
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Item Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Discs:
2
Region:
1
Packaging:
Thick Snap Case
Extras:
Deleted Scenes
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Automatic Estimated Value:
~$33.90
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-02-18
Date Added:
2018-02-07 17:59:50
