Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 movie)
1937 American animated film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy movie. It was made by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the German fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. It is the first full-length cel animated movie and the first Walt Disney Animated movie. 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. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the movie's different sequences.
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Directed by | Supervising director: David Hand Sequence directors: William Cottrell Wilfred Jackson Larry Morey Perce Pearce Ben Sharpsteen |
Written by | Ted Sears Richard Creedon Otto Englander Dick Rickard Earl Hurd Merrill De Maris Dorothy Ann Blank Webb Smith |
Produced by | Walt Disney (uncredited) |
Starring | Adriana Caselotti Lucille La Verne Harry Stockwell Roy Atwell Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Otis Harlan Scotty Mattraw Sterling Holloway Eddie Collins Moroni Olsen Stuart Buchanan |
Music by | Frank Churchill Paul J. Smith Leigh Harline |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Countries | United States Germany |
Languages | American English German |
Budget | $1,488,423[1] |
Box office | $416 million[lower-alpha 1] |
Snow White was first shown at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937. It was released across the United States on February 4, 1938. With international earnings of $8 million when it first came out, the movie for a bit had the record of highest grossing sound movie anyone had made yet. The popularity of the movie has led to it being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top ten performers at the North American box office and the most successful animated movie that anyone has yet made.
At the 11th Academy Awards, Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar. The movie was nominated for Best Musical Score. It was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1989 and is ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films, who also named the movie as the greatest American animated movie of all time in 2008. Disney's take on the fairytale has had a huge cultural impact, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, and a Broadway musical.