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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the
eponymous European fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full
length animated feature to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first in
movie history. It is also the first Walt Disney Animated Classic.
Walt Disney's Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on
December 21, 1937, and the film was released to theaters by RKO Radio
Pictures on February 4, 1938. The story was adapted by storyboard artists
Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl
Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith from the German fairy tale
Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. David Hand was the supervising director,
while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and
Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences.
Snow White was one of only two animated films to rank in the American Film
Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time in 1997
(the other being Disney's Fantasia), ranking number 49. It achieved a
higher ranking (#34) in the list's 2007 update, this time being the only
traditionally animated film on the list. The following year AFI would name
the film as the the greatest animated film of all time
In 1989, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was added to the United States
National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant." |