This page offers additional cinematic
versions of the story in addition to the Disney film. Snow White media have
primarily been associated with the Disney empire. The Disney Studios have marketed
the characters as well as music, film, books, and posters. This page also identifies
sites with information on or about "Snow White," including some earlier versions
in cartoon and animation history, recent ice show programs, as well as audio
recordings. This page also includes information on "Snow White" artifacts, from
figurines to teapots. Davenport Films has produced the
newest film in their "Brothers Grimm" collection. Read the press
release on the film. Willa: an American Snow White won the prestigious Andrew
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video for 1998 from the American
Library Association! Willa: An American Snow White.
Davenport Films: Delaplane, Virginia, 1996.
The first full-length animated feature film (December 21, 1937) every made, it is considered a Disney masterpiece and has been placed in the National Film Registry (1989) by the Library of Congress. It received a Special Academy Award (one full-sized oscar and seven small ones) from the Motion Picture Academy in 1938. Perhaps one of the most influential films for children ever produced in that it has influenced our view of "Snow White." It is important to remember that filming of Snow White was a lengthy process and that rough sketches of the characters for Snow White began to appear fairly early at the Walt Disney Studios.
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A compact disc containing the original soundtrack digitally mastered.
Costume and set design were inspired by the work of the illustrator N.C. Wyeth. With cleverness, Vincent Price plays a witty, all-knowing mirror to the evil Queen played by Vanessa Redgrave.
A presentation of the lives of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm and their work as collectors of fairy tales. Incorporated in the telling about the brothers are several tales brought to life. You might want to look at"The Brothers Grimm" a rather small site on these two illustrious figures.
This Betty Boop piece is associated with black jazz using Cab Calloway's "St. James Infirmary Blues" and useful as a way to look at jazz history. There is also a little big book based on it.
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This is the work of the legendary animator Bob Clampett but his illustrations for "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs" and the title itself represent a racism that reflects the racial views of the 1940s and it is among those short films that ridicule and capitalize on ugly stereotypes.
Includes a play for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
The Three Stooges had fun in this 1961. For a brief history of the Three Stooges visit this site. In 1985, Playhouse Video released this feature film. The original sound recording to the movie is also listed here.
This trio is included in Classic Commercials of the 50s and 60s. Vol. 19. Video, color and black and white, 59 minutes, Produced by Ira H. Gallen and others. New York: New York Video Resources, Inc, 1994.
Lavish Hollywood-style musical on ice is reviewed by Lori Buttars.
Art work from the Disney classic, including the Peter Max Snow White is for sale in this site from American Royal Arts Corporation. Another example of Disneyanna.
The Boston Archdiocese banned four lines from a song Sneezy sang in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Provides pictures of several collectible items marketed for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in a Disneymania section. Snow White Collection click here.
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"I wanted to draw a real sinister figure...I started with the silhouette-it's the first image that register in the viewer's mind. The shape of a hooded cobra raises the hair on my neck and somehow it came to mind in connection with this picture...the ugly woman's face is the next focus-I gave it a rather mannish look, complete with wart." To create an authentic costume, Unruh studied paintings by Van Dyck in order to find an appropriate robe and cowl. He limited color to the crone's face, claw-like fingernails, and the apple (half silver and half red) to focus attention on the most important elements in the art.
He hadn't originally planned to add a background, but when the art director requested one, he also included a foreground. He imagined the wicked queen approaching Snow White's house in the famous children's tale. The viewer is placed inside the house, looking out through a Dutch door, indicated by the cobbled-together trim around its edge. "I wanted a handmade look," Unruh explains. Suddenly the ad's reader is the person being threatened, which heightens the ad's plea for help."
Step By Step Graphics: Design Process Annual, 1997. Volume 13, No. 2 (1997): 187.
"Snow White" was last performed in the 1994 season in New York City at the Paul Taylor Dance Company City Center Series. Paul Taylor choreographs five rather than seven dwarfs and has the role of the queen and the prince played by the same person. The dance was videotaped by "Dance in America" in 1984 and broadcast on March 29, 1985. [Available in the Dance Collection at New York Public Library.]
This Pas de Deux was Telecast on WTTW-TV4 on December 27, 1971. [Avaialable in the Dance Collection at New York Public Library.]
Joint Resolution to Designate the Week Beginning July 16, 1987 as "Snow White Week." Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1987, GPO #575.
This is a candy bar. It really tasted good. (--Silvia Muller, Technical Support and Official Taster)
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Created January 6, 1997 and is continuously revised