Snow White reawakens in an exclusive Disney Movie Club anniversary edition, including a new featurette: 10 Ways Snow White Changed Animation Forever.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was not only a groundbreaking movie for The Walt Disney Company, but a watershed moment for animation. Today it’s hard to imagine there once was a time when there wasn’t a full-length animated movie—but before 1937’s Snow White hit the screen, people called the movie “Walt’s Folly” and warned that viewers might go blind from watching a “cartoon” for that long. As we know now, Snow White started a new genre of movies not only for Disney, but also for the whole film industry!
Though it’s well known that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated feature, did you know it was the first movie to have a soundtrack? Or that it was the first movie to use film actors to create realistic animated characters in a technique called “live-action reference”? That may be a standard in the animator’s toolbox today, but it was first done for the 1937 film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was responsible for many “firsts,” not just for animation but for all of cinema. In celebration of the 85th anniversary of Snow White, the Disney Movie Club has created an all-new featurette, 10 Ways Snow White Changed Animation Forever, exploring these groundbreaking precedents.
In the featurette, Don Hahn (producer, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King), Becky Cline (director of the Walt Disney Archives), and Disney historian Paula Sigman Lowery take us on a journey back to the 1930s to explore the achievements of this Walt Disney classic. You’ll also hear from legendary animators Frank Thomas and Marc Davis, and Walt Disney himself, through archival audio recordings and interviews. Fresh insights will give you a whole new appreciation for the artistic and technological achievements of Disney’s first full-length animated feature film.
There’s an indefinable quality to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that makes it one of the greatest films of any kind—recognized for its pioneering production, superb storytelling, exquisite artistic merit, and enormous heart. It’s one of a kind, always ready to be awakened for new generations.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 85th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy, including the 10 Ways Snow White Changed Animation Forever featurette (on the Blu-ray disc), is available exclusively through the Disney Movie Club beginning March 22, 2022. This special anniversary edition also features collectible cover art based on the original 1937 theatrical poster.
Visit DisneyMovieClub.com to join the Disney Movie Club or reserve your copy of the Club-Exclusive anniversary edition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs today!
