First Time EVER Watching SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS!! CLASSIC Snow White Movie Reaction!
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The Grimm fairy tale gets a Technicolor treatment in Disney's first animated feature. Jealous of Snow White's beauty, the wicked queen orders the murder of her innocent stepdaughter, but later discovers that Snow White is still alive and hiding in a cottage with seven friendly little miners. Disguising herself as a hag, the queen brings a poisoned apple to Snow White, who falls into a death-like sleep that can be broken only by a kiss from the prince.
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Hey, Tim, I don’t know if you know but Snow White is the very first Disney film
I like how Snow is way more proactive than people make her sound compared to the newer Princesses. Her and Cinderella were way more resilient than they get credit for
Thank you for saying that. Everyone always says Snow White is a bad role model, but she's not bad she's just outdated. And you're right about her being resilient.
Agreed
@@MissTV36Not to mention she has a strong work ethic for a 14 year old.
@@MissTV36 Exactly the whole outdated argument" is a weak criticism. The movie is nearly 100 years old of course parts of it are outdated. Heck a movie 10 years old is outdated too a point too. Shows how good this movie is that it holds up as well as it does considering it's age
I feel like people tend to forget how older Disney Princesses have their own strengths despite having less depth. Cinderella lives in an abusive household and was treated as a maid than a family member but still, she remains kind instead of the other way around. Snow White may be a princess but compared to the Evil Queen, she has humility and a caring personality.
Just simple values like these can make one feel strong in their own way. 😊😊
Not only this is a classic Disney movie, this is pretty much the first ever full-length Disney movie. It’s so amazing to see that Disney actually started off with a simple fairy tale like Snow White. No matter what anyone has to say about the movie, without it we wouldn’t have The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King or any of these other Disney classics. This truly is a major animated gem.
First full-length animated movie, period!
Without this, we probably wouldn’t have had animated movies in general
Technically this honour belongs in an animated film made in Germany in 1929 called "The Adventures of prince Achmed" which was 1 hour and 5 minutes long ( available on TH-cam For those who wanna watch it ), it's an impressive film no doubt but it has it's short comings .Show White is regarded as the first because A) it was financially successful , making around 800 Million Dollars in it's first year in theaters alone 💵 ( In 1930's money ) which adjusted for inflation surpasses EndGame by a long shot ( adjusted for Inflation the movie made in it's first year around 12 BILLION DOLLARS from ticket sales alone ,not counting profit from merchandise which this film was the first one to have products tied with the film : shoes ,toys .. It was also the first time ever that a film soundtrack was available for purchase with Vinyl discs ), and B) layed the foundation for how animated movies should be done and was the first animation ( in America, in "The Adventures of prince Achmed" the characters move in a somewhat realistic manner , though should be notated that the characters were silhouette puppets made out of cardboard not hand drawn ) to consider actual physics when making the animation.Without it proving that animation can be used for powerful emotional storytelling ( which many Hollywood exec's back in the day believed it couldn't do ) we wouldn't have Anime , which has more grounded animation compared to the 1930's ( compare Olive Oil's movements with Sailor Moon's , which one is more realistic ? 😂😂😂 )
@@alexp.d3689 Well, I said this was the first full-length Disney movie, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed is not Disney. So, this is first for Disney only.
@@BatmanFan76 You're right,I noticed the " DISNEY " part at the end of the first sentence in your comment after I read your reply .
A fun fact you might not know is that technically ( though under a different Studio,still owned by Disney but Walt Disney Studios wasn't his first studio ) Cinderella came before Snow White because Disney, in his first Studio " Laughogram Studios " made a short in 1922 based on Cinderella,so technically Cinderella is the first Disney Princess ( this was ment as a joke, don't come for my head 💀🤣🤣🤣🤣,it is true though that Walt attempted to adapt Cinderella before he did Snow White )
In a way, the apple became a wishing apple. She wished for her true love, and when she woke up, Prince Charming was there.
"My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production"
Walt Disney
Now THAT'S how you raise a glass to the people who helped you in life. I miss seeing how common gratitude used to be in film production.
It's crazy that how after almost 100 years this movie still holds up. Walt Disney almost went bankrupt while making this movie and everyone said that he couldn't do it. It ended up being the highest grossing movie of 1937 by quite a large margin. Without this movie, Disney and animation as a whole wouldn't be the same.
Rest in peace to all of the actors that worked very hard in Snow white movie.
And all the animators.
Also respect to the legendary nine old men who invented the principles of animation.
My grandma was born ten years before this movie came out! I think she actually saw it during its initial release! And she's still alive and kicking today!
Also you should check out some of the stories about what went on behind the scenes, because everyone in Hollywood thought that Walt was crazy to do an animated feature film, they actually dubbed it "Disney's Folly" (Disney's Totally Bad Idea). But he proved the naysayers wrong and the film became a SMASH HIT!
That's awesome - did she ever say how it felt seeing it for the first time
@@jamesa.romano8500 I never asked her that. I probably should, because she can still remember things from her childhood.
My mother was about five years old when *Snow White* was originally released, and she told me that after the Queen's transformation into the Old Hag, she had to be removed from the theater screaming in horror.
Wow that's amazing! I'd say she has some great stories 😀
@@oliverbrownlow5615 I first saw it during the 1993 re release, and I have to say when I witnessed the Queen's transformation into the Hag, I was actually more drawn to it! And I was only three!
21:01 Fun fact: pigs' hearts bear a surprising resemblance to human hearts, which would explain how the Queen was fooled so easily.
I actually think there is a reason for why they use love to fight back spells and stuff with these kind of stories. This sleeping death was created through the power of hate, so naturally the antidote would be the opposite, a form of love. I believe it’s just to show children that love is more powerful than hate.
I wish I could experience seeing this the way people in 1937 saw this for the first time. There's a radio broadcast of celebrities arriving at the premiere and listening to them talking about it before going into the theater they all sound very much like they're about to go see just an extended kid's cartoon. Accounts of them actually watching it in the theater saw them so emotionally invested that they crying and cheering interchangeably by the end. I guess the closest modern equivalent would be seeing Toy Story for the first time but that's a very different animal altogether
I saw it in re-release when I was a child and was enthralled. When watching something like this, you really have to suspend reality and just enjoy the creative effort, the animation- drawing and painting one cell at a time. Disney developed a camera that would film a few cells layered to give the feeling of depth. He really was a visionary.
The way the Queen gets SW to let her into the house is chillingly spot on to how some real murders and serial killers operate. Not that different from Ted Bundy pretending to be disabled so that young women would take pity on him and "help" him - giving him the opportunity to strike
Or like that guy Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs getting the daughter into the back of his van by asking her to help move the mattress because he was "handicapped"
yeah, but I admit to noticing that Snowhite was already a little afraid of the "poor old lady" before letting her in.. At least, as a child I learned the lesson of not talking to unknown people and even less letting them into the house.
Kind of scary to think that 13 years from now, this film will be 100 years old.
A small animation detail I love in this movie is when the Dwarfs are marching home (Heigh Ho) they each have unique walks which go with their names/personalities.
And it will enter the public domain nine years from now, in 2033.
“The one that started it all.” To this day, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a charming and fun Disney film. What’s amazing is that it still holds up to this day, being the first full length feature of the Disney company and sets the legacy of beloved classics we still have today.
This is not a just a film. It is a work of art. This was Walt Disney’s most prided film. He protected it with his life. I hate when people bash this film because it is too boring apparently. And I hate how people hate on Snow White for being boring as well. She is better than people give her credit for.
I’ve always liked the fact that despite Grumpy’s attitude towards Snow White, he really does care about her.
Also, fun fact (or not so much): The queen actually suffered a worse fate in the original story. She was made to dance in hot iron shoes until she died.
The Queen had it coming
Yeah, there's actually a lot of that brutality in other fairy tales... Makes me wonder how I could grow up without being traumatized 😅
@@leaness98 Even older Disney movies are a lot darker than you'd expect them to be, specifically because they are adapted from fairy tales.
22:26 -- look at Snow dancing! In 1937, NOBODY had seen such complex footwork in an animated character before. In many cases the animators actually filmed real humans moving, broke down the film frame by frame and copied the movements over to their animated characters. Incidentally, an important body-reference model for both Snow White and Dopey was dancer Marge Champion. She lived to be 101, passing as recently as 2020.
All the most important irony with the main villainess of the movie, is that She wanted to be more beautiful than anyone else in the world, so much so that when she learns that there is someone who can outshine her, she decides to get rid of her by letting her die, but in order to achieve her goal, she disfigures herself, turning herself into an old woman, And after that, it itself dies. The irony is that the Queen allowed her arrogance when she could have just let Snow White live and still boast about her own beauty, Instead, she goes to any horrible length, refusing to live with the knowledge that some ragged woman could be more beautiful than her, and all this leads to her death. I would call the Evil Queen the progenitor of all Disney Villains, without whom there would be no iconic characters like Lady Tremaine, Maleficent, Cruella de Ville, Ursula, Scar, Captain Hook, the Horned King, Hades and Claude Frollo.
I like how this is true but they don't ever telegraph the irony of the situation...
The Queen when she turns into the hag suddenly develops a sense of humor that borders on sarcarsm at times. Almost as if the Queen was restraining herself when she was beautiful but now that she's ugly can cut loose and have fun finally. Its such an interesting commentary on beauty and social norms for women
@@jamesa.romano8500 I'm assuming she knew how to turn herself back to normal, also alternatively the queen could've just made Snow White less beautiful instead.(why stop at just putting her in rags?)
@@rebajoe I don't think she was all that logical a thinker given the "peddler's cloak" line (how bout instead of using a potion just going and getting a regular peddler's cloak? LOL)
I'm always struck by the intense irony of that moment when the Queen gloats over the body of the fallen Snow White, "Now I'm the fairest in the land!" -- when in fact, at that moment, she is a hideous crone.
Snow White is a big example of optimistic resilience, she faces terrible situations with a smile and a song, and she has a ton of very necessary life skills that allowed her to negotiate her safety and comfort with the animals and the dwarfs, truly a wonderful role model for all children.
25:38, on a historical level, that would be because the tale of Sun, Moon and Talia has the sleeping princess awoken by something that isn’t a kiss but being impregnated in her sleep but when Charles Perrault wrote Sleeping Beauty, he decided that was too disturbing so he changed it to a kiss and so when the Brothers Grimm wrote the German version, they kept it a kiss so Pyotr Tchaikovsky kept it a kiss in ballet.
When Walt Disney and the others made Snow White, they decided that her spitting out the poisoned half of the apple after being accidentally dropped off a precipice being the way to wake her up (like in the Grimm’s tale) couldn’t really work so they decided to make it a kiss like in Sleeping Beauty. And after Snow White was a success, other Disney movies imitated what it did. And that’s why it’s so often about True Love’s First Kiss.
"This definitely gave kids nightmares, for sure."
And you'd be right! That dark forest scene scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid! And the Queen's transformation into an old hag!
The reason they say Jiminy Crickets is because it was a common phrase that people said to mean Wow or Gosh or other stronger epithets that might share the initials J.C. The cricket in the original Pinocchio story didn't have a name, and Disney gave him the name of Jiminy Cricket because it was a clever use of that common phrase. So I don't think the dwarves say it as a call-forward to Pinocchio; they're just using it in the common vernacular of the audience at that time. (If you watch "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy actually says it, too.)
2:27, I used to think that quite a lot when I was little, yeah the main connection Snow White and Cinderella have is the stepmother forcing them to do chores; or more generally, they're both known for a lot of cleaning.
To Snow's credit, in the original fairy tale, she's fourteen. So, she's young and naive. Plus, being in a castle all the time, especially as a maid, she probably didn't really interact with other people.
Especially compared to the original where the Queen pulls the same trick on her three times and she falls for it each time. This version may be naive but her body language that she's uncomfortable even after being told about the wishing apple and has to be gently pushed into complying
Yep. Pretty much all of the Disney princesses are teenagers.
And yet she has a remarkably strong work ethic and self sufficiency for a 14 year old
@@jamesa.romano8500 yeah, exact, I admit to noticing Snowhite was already somewhat afraid of the "poor old lady" before letting her in, even her body language says she's uncomfortable
No, in the original fairy tale Snow White is seven years old, and there is no mention that the queen ever forced her to be a maid. She never met the prince before waking up, which not due to the prince's kissing her, but that her coffin was jostled and the piece of poison apple fell out of her throat. Walt Disney changed the facts around to make it more palatable to the thirties audience.
I appreciate all the comments praising this masterpiece. It's always been my absolute favorite and I have two signed portraits from Adriana caselotti (the voice of snow white). She absolutely loved this role up until the very end and the magic is palpable.
I'm absolutely never going to be on board for the live action because let's face it it's gonna be flaming garbage but at least more people are talking about the original as a result
It's funny how the Rachel Zegler debacle just ended up showing how beloved this movie still is all these years later
@@darrylvarney9837 Oh I SUPER agree!! And I was pleasantly surprised, not gonna lie. Modern audiences are kinda dumb. Need everything spoonfed to them. Too many completely misunderstand snow white as a character because, what, she doesn't have a song literally detailing her entire personality so the audience follows. I miss old movie storytelling where you know, you just... Open your peepers.
The animation in this film is so absolutely amazing. Computer animation doesn't hold a candle to this. Hand drawn animation has so much more heart and soul.
Snow White will be 100 years old in 13 1/2 years time and it still looks very beautiful today. Walt and his animation team did such a great job on this movie that it still looks so great almost a whole century later. 😁😁🤩🤩🤩
It may actually look better now than it did then, due to digital restoration.
This film was the first full animated feature ever, a simple story about friendship, love, and kindness when people needed the escape from the Great Depression. It holds up better than most films today ❤
Also a good story about stranger danger.
This was the first full length animated movie ever made, and the prevailing wisdom at the time was that there would be no audience for such a thing and that Disney would go bankrupt; people were nicknaming the movie Disney's Folly while it was being made. I understand that the scene of the queen's transformation into the old hag was inspired by a movie version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - not the then recent Fredric March version, but the old silent John Barrymore version.
I don't think it bears much resemblance to the John Barrymore transformation, which is accomplished on screen without special effects or makeup, purely through acting.
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I kid you not I cry EVERY TIME I watch this movie. Especially when Snow White sings. Such a nostalgic experience. 😂
I did a whole project about how important this movie.
Few fun facts:
-The squeaking of the shoes was rubber
-Jimminy Cricket was a child friendly way of saying Jesus Christ
-The guy who voiced Grumpy also voiced Sleepy
-Disney made a Silly Symphony short called The Goddess of Spring to practice animating Snow White in a more realistic way, but it was a failure and they fixed it in the movie
High Ho Let’s Go
- The original names of the Dwarfs before Disney renamed them were Snick, Glick, Blick, Flick, Plick, Whick & Quee which after giving them the iconic names some animators were opposed to the name Dopey by saying it was too modern especially for a fairy tale, but Walt Disney made the argument that William Shakespeare used the word in one of his plays which he did not
- Speaking of Dopey there was going to be a prequel focusing on the Dwarves in particular explaining why Dopey is mute
- To get the Old Hag voice Lucille La Verne (the Wicked Queen) where after she stepped away from a recording session then came back with that perfect Old Hag voice with stunned them & after asking how she did it all she said was ”Oh, I just took my teeth out”
- Disney Studios in Burbank was built from the profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs movie
This is the first classic Disney movie I've enjoyed. I love the songs and memorable moments. It's a true masterpiece. My favorite dwarf is Dopey
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I like Grumpy! At first he is mistrustful and thinks Snow white is dangerous but slowly see her kindness and accept her as a friend. He even cries after she bite the apple, poor guy 😭I was as sad as him during this moment. The emotion is really well done in the movie!
6:02, this infamous scene in the movie where Snow White enters a spooky forest and it looks like everything is trying to kill her. It actually was in the Grimm’s tale. Which surprised me since it seemed to me to be something that lends itself more to a visual medium but it’s in the book
At the time, that was called "Disney's folly" , everyone thought no one would never watch a cartoon this long... the premiere was an explosive success, and Walt even won an Oscar for the best movie, even though there wasn't an Oscar for animation! A little girl whose name was SHIRLEY TEMPLE gave the Oscar to Walt, a very special one: One regular Oscar statue with seven smaller statues.
Walt Disney and his crew put all of themselves on this project, they risked it all, and they won! They created a new genre, a whole new world of possibility, where the sky was the limit. That was the golden era of animation, with lots of brilliant people creating masterpieces, pure works of art.
Sadly, modern studios and animators (ESPECIALLY Disney studios) have lost the way, no more creativity, no more courage, no more true animation... Walt would be so disappointed!
The Oscar given to Walt Disney for *Snow White* was not a Best Picture Oscar. It was a Special Oscar.
In fact, apparently Snow, White, and the seven dwarves was the first animated project ever not to be a short and actually made as a film or a series
I still find myself getting emotional when the Dwarves mourn over Snow on her deathbed. The animators did a great job of capturing the sad emotions that they were feeling and the music adds onto the sadness of the scene too.
According fo legend, Walt knew the film had succeeded when he looked around the theater during this scene and saw that people were crying -- crying sbout the apparent death of a cartoon character!
yeah, besides when I was a little child, it was the first time I saw a funeral in a movie and in my life
The OG! Yay!
I have a special place for this film.
I loved that movie Princess Snow white is so kind and sweet I love that this movie is about kindness and love.
She's one of the beautiful disney princesses
"Jiminy Cricket" was part of the social lexicon long before Disney's Pinocchio, and was a benign and more acceptable alternative to cursing, "Jesus Christ!"
9:46, now you know the scene Enchanted was homaging when Giselle gets the animals to clean Robert’s place
This was the first movie my Grandma ever saw in theaters, and the evil hag terrified her ☺️
Snow White is among the old Disney princesses that caught a lot of flack, but she's probably my favourite along with Cinderella and Belle. 😍
In one book (based on the Disney version) they added the detail, in the scene with the hunter, that Snow White was picking flowers for her step-mother as thanks for letting her go outside, which just... 💔😭
21:09, yeah. It is. Honestly, imagine having an all-knowing magic mirror and the best thing you can think to ask it being to tell you how good looking you are.
Snow White is one of the first Disney princess movies I ever watched, and she still remains my favourite one. I am so in love with the music from this film and listen to them day after day. I don't think I'll ever get tired of this movies beauty 😍
Two scenes that were cut from the movie both animated by legendary animator Ward Kimball (one of Disney's Nine Old Men). The first one was Music in your Soup which happens directly after the Washing scene where the dwarfs would slurp their soup and Snow White attempting and half-successfully teaching them to eat like gentlemen. Towards the end, Dopey accidently swallows his spoon, prompting the others to help him getting it out of him. They succeed by Happy giving Dopey a great kick in his butt which makes both the spoon and the soap he swallowed in the previous scene, making them fly across and get stuck in the wall to the dwarfs cheering.
The other is set late in the movie (probaby after they go to the mines to work) where they figure out what to give Snow White as a gift. Sleepy suggests a bed to which the others agree and start working on one with the help of the animals.
They were cut late in prodcution when all animation was done on the former and half done on the other, as Walt thought they slow the story down. Ward Kimball was so discouraged that he seriously consindered to quit but before he could Walt stopped him and promoted him to supervisiing animator and gave him the task to animated Jiminy Cricket for Pinocchio, as a consolation.
There was also a bit of The Witch brewing the poison for the apple that was cut for pacing reasons when it was fully complete, coloring and all.
I must have been living under a Disney filled rock all of those years because I had not seen Snow White until the pandemic. I had the option to watch Snow White for my English final (which was a film studies class), but I chose Fantasia instead.
I haven't been able to look at this movie the same way, ever since I found out she's supposed to be 14 years old!!!😮
Yes, she's the youngest Disney princess (and the oldest at the same time because she's the first created)
I have a theory that Snow White really did die and the prince was an angel all along. That's why he takes her to a castle in the clouds. He takes her to Heaven
Fun Fact:
While this movie was being made, the Fleisher Brothers (creators of Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop) were also working on their own animated feature film, which was released shortly after this movie (1939) under the name Gulliver’s Travels.
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You should check that one out sometime soon as well!
Since *Gulliver's Travels* (1939) is already in public domain, you could do a full-length reaction to it and post it on TH-cam, or use as much of it as you like in an edited reaction.
Right as Snow White is putting Grumpy’s name on his pie(the one dwarf who criticizes Snow White) the witch appears to her.
This movie is such a masterpiece
It’s fun to think that Snow White as far as production goes is really a Cinderella story. Disney poured his all in this venture and basically the entire world thought it was going to fail and bankrupt him. It was a massive success and was the very first feature length animated film and the start of Disney’s Movie career. There’s a few documentaries on how it came to be you should really check it out and maybe even react to it. It paved the way for his first five features ( Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Fantasia) I believe is how the order goes.
Not quite. The order is *Snow White* (1937), *Pinocchio* (1940), *Fantasia* (1940), *Dumbo* (1941), and *Bambi* (1942).
@@oliverbrownlow5615 thank you! I felt I might’ve been a little off
The One That Started it all nothing better than watching a Disney Classic
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I haven’t seen Snow White aka the very first Disney film since childhood. The reason I haven’t revisited this in so long is because the darkness of the movie had me traumatized, like you can convince me that this is a horror movie kind of darkness
Disney (Pixar) Recommendation - A Bug's Life
In case you haven't seen it.
You want to talk about this film being dark, every fairy tale-based Disney film is based off an actual fairy tale (ex: Snow White, The Princess and the Frog, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Tangled were originally from Grimm’s Fairy Tales)
The Grimm brothers’ version of this story is even darker
The Queen both literally and symbolically did herself in. Powerful themes in this film.
Some fun trivia facts/cool stories for you:
The phrase Jiminy Cricket is actually a euphemism for the exclamation Jesus Christ. By the time Walt made Pinocchio the meaning had changed to “oh no” or “oh wow” in popular culture due in part to its inclusion in The Wizard of Oz.
The voice actress of Snow White, Miss Caselotti, is the female voice you hear during Tinman’s song in The Wizard of Oz. She says “Wherefore art thou Romeo.”
Aspects of Snow White’s (the character) animation are very reminiscent of the famous cartoon character Betty Boop who was introduced in 1930. You really notice it when Snow White is scared or surprised. Unsure if this was ever confirmed as a homage or a happy accident.
Walt Disney screened the first version of this film to someone he greatly respected (I don’t remember the man’s name) and panicked the whole time because the man didn’t have a single reaction during the screening. Walt walked him to his car and asked him what he thought. The man replied something like “It’s a goldmine, Walt. But the first hour/ last 30 minutes (I don’t remember which it was, saw the documentary with the story many years ago) is awful.” Which made Walt realize two things: he was going prove all his critics wrong and he needed to redo the first hour or the last 30 minutes of his film.
A claim was made that Snow White is a thinly veiled metaphor for a young girl’s sexual awakening. To my knowledge, Walt Disney never addressed this accusation.
I love The Wizard of Oz. That’s such a timeless classic
I believe the man to whom Walt showed an "early" version of *Snow White* was a representative of a bank from which Walt was trying to get a loan to finish the picture. The version of the film Walt showed him was actually unfinished, with some scenes fully animated, some only in pencil tests (black-and-white sketchy animation), others with only storyboards, and some missing entirely that Walt had to narrate and explain. In the telling of the story I read somewhere, the banker is said to have watched it all in stony silence, and then when it was over, he said, "That thing is going to make a Hell of a lot of money." And Walt's loan got approved.
@@oliverbrownlow5615 Fascinating. It’s the same story, but the documentary I watched absolutely said the man was “someone Walt greatly respected.” It’s been so many years since I’ve seen it, though, I only recall snippets. The story was told by one of the animators who worked on films before the 1980s. I think he was retired at the time. He discussed everything from Snow White to The Rescuers.
This movie still brings tears to my eyes. It's like I can feel every drop of emotion and passion the animators poured into it.
The animators to Mr. Disney presenting the forest scene and the Queen’s transformation scene: Think it’ll scare the kids?
Mr. Disney: The kids? This’ll give the parents nightmares.
It's lovely to go back to this film from time to time. Sometimes a simple fairytale ending is all we need.
For the dwarfs walking over the creaking floor, an old wallet was used to wiggle it up and down to make a creaking sound.
Sound effect man Jimmy MacDonald (who worked at the Disney studio since 1934 up to his retirement in 1989, he invented many gagdets that were used for Disney shorts and features including for the train sounds for Casey Jr. in Dumbo, and took over from Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey Mouse as he became too busy and his throat going sore from smoking too much) did some vocal effects for Dopey such as hiccuping when he accidenly swallowed the soap and sobbing at Snow White's funeral.
Haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but suppsedly, Walt was frustrated that none of the paint guys could get Snow White's makeup to look just right, until one of the women working at the studio said she'd take a crack at it. Walt was blown away by the results and asked her how the heck she got it to look so good.
"Mr. Disney," she supposedly replied. "What do you think we do every morning?"
You've left out the real punchline: they used actual rouge (makeup) to achieve the effect Walt wanted.
As a suggestion now that you've seen this, if you haven't watched Mirror, Mirror, I'd highly recommend it. It's a fantastic and comedic retelling of Snow White.
Pinto Colvig, who's best known for being the first voice of Goofy, voices both Sleepy and Grumpy. Billy Gilbert who voices Snezy would later voice Willie the Giant in Mikcey and the Beanstalk segment in Fun and Fancyfree.
Billy Gilbert had a long career in live-action movies as well, so varied that it defies easy summation. Fans of classic comedy may remember him as the angry professor in Laurel & Hardy's Academy Award winning short, *The Music Box* (1932).
Both snow white and sleeping beauty as well as Cinderella are based on German fairy tales first published by the brothers Grimm in December 1812. Disney has adapted those fairy tales but not created the story line.
This will be a 100 years old soon!
There is a good live action Snow White movie called Snow White Tale of Terror. It has Sam Neil as Snow White’s father and Sigourney Weaver as The Evil Queen.
Snow White is fabulous and a Cottagecore Legend but EVIL STEPMOTHER is so fierce and iconic and yes, outsourcing murder and poisoned apples are not ok.
That cape swirl tho... 👌
More scenes with The Prince was planned but because it was so hard for the animators to animate him that they were scrapped. The Queen would capture the Prince and put him in the dungeon where she would torment him by making skeletons come to life and dance in front of him. He'd also be able to escape the dungeon to save Snow White. Those ideas would be recycled for Sleeping Beauty.
I’d like to see you react to the Aristocats. It’s one of the more chill older Disney movies that not a lot of people talk about. But it was one of my favorites growing up.
The one that started it all for Disney and I'm excited for what the new remake will bring to the table to carry on this amazing legecy 😄🍎
Disney's first movie ever created if my fact checking is correct
His first full-length feature, yes. He had made many films, going all the way back to the silent movie era, but all of them were shorts.
The dwarves thought Snow White was beautiful and admired her, but not in a sexual way. They were charmed by her sweetness and a bit in awe of her (especially her being a princess).
Great Snow White movie. Also had some funny moments, too.
I adore this movie
Snow White and the seven Dwarfs was the very first Disney Movie I watched when I little, about 4 years old in 1997 and I still adore this movie to this day even in my 30s and I will 100% defend this movie with all my heart
I don't care if this movie came out in 1937, I don't care if it came out in 1837, it is perfect the way it is, and I'm certain the 2025 live action with Rachel Zegler will be a failure
and has a lot more morals than you realise
the dangers of vanity (Evil Queen's motives)
the true meaning of "Fairness" it's not just outward beauty (Kindness, gentleness, humble, compassionate) Snow White's Character
Snow White dreams of wanting a better life and wanting to find true love (Nothing wrong with that at all, we all desire that) True Love's kiss is a beautiful concept, a kiss is the most beautiful way of showing affection, true love's kiss, is a kiss from someone who truly loves you.
Great reaction Tim
Thank you for the upload
I had this movie on VHS growing up and it was one of my favorite Disney princess movies. And I always liked the way Dopey was hopping up and down smiling in that one scene, when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were about to go to bed.
Walt Disney and his crew definitely made a phenomenal film that withstood the test of time. Even to this day Snow White and the Seven Dwarves isn't just the first Disney animated feature film in their history, but for countless generations. It leaves all of us to ponder over how much he and his animators went through to make it possible.
In interviews, some surviving animators and crew people described how audiences reacted to this when it finally released in the late 1930s. There wasn't a dry eye in that theater those decades ago!
oh wow i never put together that fall, winter and spring had passed during her sleep. i thought it was just a small amout of time
My grandma’s nickname was Snow White. She was a teenager when this movie first came out and she loved it.
OMG Snow White has been my favorite Disney Princess for as long as I can remember. I remember dressing up as Snow White when I was younger & always wore that dress for like 3 weeks straight. I wore it to sleep, when I played, etc. Sadly, it ripped off of me. Such great memories. Lol
It must be said that Disney early reached a very high quality of animation. If we compare this movie to 1989's "The Little Mermaid", the animation of the latter is surely _somewhat_ more refined, but not drastically so -- considering that there is MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY between the two films! The basics of the craft had remained the same thoughout five decades.
Yeah this movie holds up insanely well considering it's near 100 years old. Shows how good it is. The animation is on another level I can see why this film was a make or break for Disney. the budget had too be insane
I never realized that they keep saying “Jiminy Crickets” but Pinocchio came out 3 years after this!
35:19, a lot of old fairy tales have a formula to them. That said, the love’s kiss thing was in adaptations of Sleeping Beauty already when this movie came out and (at the time) wasn’t part of the Snow White story but when Disney made their Sleeping Beauty movie in 1959 they were heavily influenced by the 1937 Snow White.
She is my favorite disney princess
Disney’s very first movie
the first animated movie 1938 amazing the years that these movie have
You mean 1937
This was my favorite since I was little
Yes, the sleeping death bit in Snow White is a similar trope that Sleeping Beauty has. Only, the two film’s differs from each other with the objects that deal the main characters in, them being a poisonous apple and a spindle.
Of course they use "sleep" so that there can be a hope of rescue. With "death", the only out would be to magic her back as a zombie/revenant. Too scary!
Snowhite Is a great Disney Classic
So here is what I have always wondered...the book says that EVERY DAY the Queen goes to this mirror and asks the question "Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" and every day he answers that it is her. Then one day he suddenly says Snow White. What changed between the day before and that day to make Snow White more fair than the Queen, even dressed in rags? Why THAT day is she the fairest? I would understand if it was once a month or once a year that she asks this question, so something would have time to change, to make Snow White the more beautiful, but every DAY?
Not only that, but when the mirror tells the Queen that Snow White is the fairest, the girl in only 7. The mirror doesn't tell the queen that Snow is still alive until 10 years later. After she thought she had Snow White murdered, did the queen stop asking the mirror who was fairest for 10 years? Did Snow White cease to be the fairest for a 10 year period between the ages of 7 and 17? Did the mirror lie to the queen for 10 years?
Hi Tim how are you doing ? One of my favorite Disney’s movie ! I always have tears about the scene when 7 dwarfs are crying around Snow White when she’s sleeping forever ! 😢😢
I actually still have a Grumpy dwarf hoodie that I bought from Goodwill 15(?) years ago and I 🩷 it lol 😊 Edit: Dopey is my favorite dwarf though 😂😂😂
This is not only the greatest animated film of all time, it's also one of the greatest films ever made. It's a work of art and shame on Disney for making a live action "remake" of this. You don't touch the classics, especially the one that launched the legacy that is Disney.
This Disney Movie Is a Masterpiece