Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, that had wondered whether a fairy story could have enough suspense to hold an audience through seven reels, and whether, even if the plot held up, an audience would care about the fate of characters who were just drawings, was convinced that Walt Disney had done it again. Snow White is as exciting as a Western, as funny as a haywire comedy. It combines the classic idiom of folklore drama with rollicking comic-strip humor. A combination of Hollywood, the Grimm Brothers, and the sad, searching fantasy of universal childhood, it is an authentic masterpiece, to be shown...
Process. Although it took a large part of the Disney staff three years to draw and photograph Snow White's 250,000 pictures, the process of making Snow White was exactly the same as used in making any recent Disney cartoon...
Meanwhile the magic looking glass has told the Queen that Snow White still lives...
...Queen changes herself into a witch. Unlike the original Grimm Brothers' Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which...
...creatures of the wood rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...