A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000325
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1938) 311 When Walt Disney announced his intention of making a feature-length animated cartoon, to cost nearly two million dollars, his sincerest well-wishers told him that he was crazy. In the first place, the public wouldn't sit through so long a cartoon; in the second place, an adult audience certainly wouldn't sit through a fairy tale, and the juvenile audience wasn't large enough to pay for the cost of production. Disney listened politely, and released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which promptly broke attendance records all over America, grossed about eight million dollars, played in forty-one different countries, and had a sound track in ten different languages. BELOW Snow White had everything— magic, animals, love interest, menace, comedy, and pathos. Here is the scene where the young prince visits the bier of Snow White, surrounded by her mourning companions ( the famous Dopey is second from left). A special Academy award went to Disney in 1938 for this picture.