Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

 Cast: Adriana Caselotti
Adriana Caselotti
, Harry Stockwell
Harry Stockwell
, Stuart Buchanan
Stuart Buchanan
, Roy Atwell
Roy Atwell
, Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

 Cast: Adriana Caselotti
Adriana Caselotti
, Harry Stockwell
Harry Stockwell
, Stuart Buchanan
Stuart Buchanan
, Roy Atwell
Roy Atwell
, Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig

Blu-ray (Wide Screen / Bonus DVD / 2 PACK)

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Overview

It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why pick a well-worn Grimm's Fairy Tale that every schoolkid knows? But Walt Disney seemed to thrive on projects which a lesser man might have written off as "stupid" or "impossible." Investing three years, $1,500,000, and the combined talents of 570 artists into Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney produced a film that was not only acknowledged a classic from the outset, but also earned 8,500,000 depression-era dollars in gross rentals. Bypassing early temptations to transform the heroine Snow White into a plump Betty Boop type or a woebegone ZaSu Pitts lookalike, the Disney staffers wisely made radical differentiations between the "straight" and "funny" characters in the story. Thus, Snow White and Prince Charming moved and were drawn realistically, while the Seven Dwarfs were rendered in the rounded, caricatured manner of Disney's short-subject characters. In this way, the serious elements of the story could be propelled forward in a believable enough manner to grab the adult viewers, while the dwarfs provided enough comic and musical hijinks to keep the kids happy. It is a tribute to the genius of the Disney formula that the dramatic and comic elements were strong enough to please both demographic groups. Like any showman, Disney knew the value of genuine horror in maintaining audience interest: accordingly, the Wicked Queen, whose jealousy of Snow White's beauty motivates the story, is a thoroughly fearsome creature even before she transforms herself into an ancient crone. Best of all, Snow White clicks in the three areas in which Disney had always proven superiority over his rivals: Solid story values (any sequence that threatened to slow down the plotline was ruthlessly jettisoned, no matter how much time and money had been spent), vivid etched characterizations (it would have been easier to have all the Dwarfs walk, talk and act alike: thank heaven that Disney never opted for "easy"), and instantly memorable songs (Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and the entire studio music department was Oscar-nominated for such standards-to-be as "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come").

Product Details

Release Date: 02/02/2016
UPC: 0786936847925
Original Release: 1937
Rating: G
Source: Walt Disney Video
Presentation: [Full Frame]
Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 1:24:00
Sales rank: 3,926

Special Features

English SDH

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Adriana Caselotti Snow White
Harry Stockwell Prince Charming
Stuart Buchanan The Queen
Roy Atwell Bashful
Pinto Colvig Doc
Billy Gilbert Grumpy
Eddie Collins Bird Sounds and Warbling
Marion Darlington Voices
Scotty Mattraw Voices
James MacDonald Voices
Moroni Olsen Magic Mirror
Marge Champion Model for Snow White
Purv Pullen Voices
Jim MacDonald Yodeling
Snow White Actor
Leigh Harline Composer
Paul J. Smith Composer
Larry Morey Composer

Technical Credits
David Hand Director,Director
Wilfred Jackson Director
Larry Morey Director
William Cottrell Director
Perce Pearce Director
Ben Sharpsteen Director
Walt Disney Producer,Director
Ted Sears Screenwriter
Dick Rickard Screenwriter,Director
Earl Hurd Screenwriter
Webb Smith Screenwriter,Director
Wilhelm Grimm Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Richard Creedon Screenwriter
Otto Englander Screenwriter
Dick Richards Screenwriter
Merrill De Maris Screenwriter
Dorothy Ann Blank Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Dorothy Ann Blank Director
Richard Creedon Director
Merrill de Maris Director
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