Snow White is 64 this year but she's looking hotter than ever. To celebrate the remastered DVD release, Richard Holliss looks back at the creation of this screen classic.
Almost as legendary as the 1937 premiere of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was the reception it received from the celebrity audience in the Carthy Circle theatre in LA: they cried, laughed and cheered their way through the film's entire 83 minutes running time.
Snow White represented a utterly new approach to film-making and its four year conception was a pioneering effort on behalf of a great number of extremely talented individuals. The contemporary press campaign revealed that 'if one man were to undertake the job of completing [Snow White], and had sufficient talent to do so, he would be able to complete the job in a little over 230 years by working eight hours a day!'
In fact 750 artists toiled on the project between 1934 and 1937: 32 animators, 102 assistants, 167 in-betweeners, 20 layout men, 25 background artists, 65 special effects animators and 150 young women adept at inking and painting the 477,000 separate drawings that make up the completed film.
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