Happy 80th Birthday to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Walt Disney Productions ^ | December 21st, 1937 | Walt Disney and many other talented people

[Ciaphas Cain]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first ever full-length animated motion picture, was released on this day in 1937. In one theater at first and then wide across America a month and a half later.

Click here for the original theatrical trailer.

[Calvin Locke]

You must have missed this article yesterday. Out of Japan.

Professor: Princes in ‘Snow White,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’ are sex offenders

[joethedrummer]

If released today, dwarves would sue!

They’re “LITTLE PEOPLE!!!” These days.

[bigbob]

Let’s see, was she sexually harrassed...? No, that was Sleeping Beauty who was Frankenized while she was asleep...

[dhs12345]

And didn't have at least one token homosexual or sexual innuendo.

Just a nice story of a male-female relationship and love and where the male rescues the female. Apparently that is offensive.

[dfwgator]

"Ok, dead broad, off the table!"

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***White privileged caucasian female***

Well, there is always Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)

[bar sin·is·ter]

Chocolate Brown and the bitch midgets.

[elcid1970]

An actual actress was filmed in the role of Snow White, then the animators drew from that film one frame at a time, creating an animated character with natural movements, especially the eyes & mouth when she was singing.

[ifinnegan]

One of the best movies ever made.

Before it came out they called it Disney’s Folly. Said it would bankrupt the studio.

It made more money than any other movie up to that time. He put all the money in to making a new studio facility, the one they still use in Burbank, and making more high quality expensive films. Disney always re-invested the money to make bigger and better things, taking great chances.

The world would be different if he had lived just ten more years.

[Architect of Avalon]

The ninth dwarf, Klepto, was banned from shopping at the Enchanted Forest store.

[Hot Tabasco]

They’re “LITTLE PEOPLE!!!” These days.

No, they're "vertically disadvantaged".......

[sparklite2]

It's time to update a cultural classic to reflect a modern mind.  Henceforth the 7 dwarves will be known as:

      Creepy
      Grabby
      Touchy
      Feely
      Pinchy
      Gropey
      Diddle-I-you

[dhs12345]

Lol. How true.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Hitler’s favorite movie. So much so that he ordered the German film making company UFA-Film GmbH (Ufi), to out do Disney with high budget fantasy and other films.

One of the best is Münchhausen (1943), a fantasy comedy, which is one of the few movies out there that every version of which is good. It can be purchased from Kino Lorber, which has done a good restoration with English subtitles.

[jmcenanly]

If they were filming this today as live action, the dwarves would probably be normally sized actors filmed in either forced perspective, green screen or both, as seen in Peter Jackson's Tolkein movies.