Disney’s First Full-Length Animated Feature — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Founded on October 16, 1923, The Walt Disney Company is one of the most widely known mass media companies developing hundreds of films and creating many wonderful characters. Some of the most beloved animated Disney characters are the Disney princesses. In 1938, we were introduced to the very first Disney princess, Snow White.
Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Snow White and released on February 4, 1938, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made history. The film is about a young girl named Snow White who’s wicked stepmother is jealous of her beauty and sets out to have Snow White killed. Snow White runs away and hides in a small cottage where she meets the seven dwarf miners. Upon finding Snow White alive and hiding, the wicked stepmother disguises herself to trick Snow White into eating a poison apple and causes her to fall into a death-like sleep that can only be broken by a kiss from the prince.
The film cost Walt Disney $1.5 million to make and became the first animated feature to be produced in English and Technicolor. Many people thought the feature wouldn’t do well because they believed not many people would be interested or have the patience to watch a full-legnth cartoon fantasy about dwarfs. However, upon the premiere of the film on Decemeber 21, 1937 the film was a big hit among its audience. The film was released to the public about two months later and quickly became the highest grossing film of that time earning $8 million. For his achievements in this animated feature, Walt Disney won an honorary Academy Award.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs truly paved the way for animation. It is one of the ultimate Disney classics that became the start of the many amazing Disney animated features we know and love today.
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