Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the production was supervised by David Hand, and was directed by five sequence directors: Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey. Which raises the question, did Batman highlight the fact that it was filmed in color at the start of every episode because the TV magnates wanted to encourage all those Americans watching Batman in black and white to upgrade their sets? The movie poster for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Image via IMDB. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Walt Disney). Nitrate frame collection.
Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photographs of the frames by Barbara Flueckiger. The Walt Disney animation movie from 1937 was also in full color.
There were 2 silent black and white movies with real actors (1902, 1916) and one black and white Betty Boop animation version with. In 1937 the release of Disney's first full length-animated film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," in Technicolor, goes on to become the most successful sound film of all time. Decades before Pixar, Dreamworks and others would perfect the animated art of giving all ages of moviegoers the sniffles at the theater, the animation and color of "Snow White" would bring a tear to the eye.
Today I received the book "The fairest one of all", The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's an incredible (320 pages) book with lots of information and original pictures. There is a whole chapter about the colors and the intended dark, realistic visuals.
"Like every other aspect of producing Snow White, the film's color had received Walt's careful attention. He had. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is the first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound, one of Disney's greatest films, and a pioneering classic tale in film history.
It was financed due in part to the success of Disney's earlier animated short, The Three Little Pigs (1933). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, American animated musical film, released in 1937, that established Walt Disney as one of the world's most innovative and creative moviemakers. Along with Pinocchio (1940), it is widely considered to be Disney 's greatest film achievement.
Snow White and the Seven DwarfsSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). When did Snow White come out in color? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is the first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound, one of Disney's greatest films, and a pioneering classic tale in film history. It was financed due in part to the success of Disney's earlier animated short, The Three Little Pigs (1933).
With Snow White, Disney wanted "a film that was not only animated but could be put out into the commercial movie marketplace and compete with the live.