YUP! That's such a good point! She had to turn into something that was completely the opposite of her intended goal. It comments on the ugly nature of jealousy, competition, and greed ... beautiful storytelling 👍
snow white is such an emotionally strong character, right along with cinderella. she's been forced to work as a scullery maid, just been told her only family wants her dead, driven through hell, and within moments she pulls herself together, APOLOGIZES for having a breakdown and tries to make amends. she doesn't have animal friends because they just love her, but because she reached her hand out and was kind to them first. i love how resilient she is, and that she didn't expect to stay in the house for nothing, exchanging her skills for shelter. kindness can be underrated in media, but there's a reason snow white endures- there's more to strength than just swinging a sword around. i also love the glitter of the gems, every incredible animation moment, and here's my favorite fun fact: to get the echo when snow white is singing into the well, they used the ladies bathroom when it was empty.
I just about agree with everything you've mentioned! She's one of a kind, and I love you pointed out how underrated 'kindness' is: and Snow White is probably the best example of it 😀 oh and that well scene was just beautiful!
I first saw this movie when I was two. My mom still tells the story about how I began shouting at the screen, “DON’T EAT IT! DON’T EAT IT!!!” She had to pull me out into the lobby of the theater to calm me down.
Ohhhhhhh! That's so adorable ... you were so into the scene that you wanted her at all costs NOT to eat that apple! That's just awesome! Thank you so much, Joe, for sharing that story 😊
I can always remember watching this with my little sister and how much she was crying and so sad when she ate the apple. and I just held her and said just keep watching it’s gonna be ok.
Fun fact: it has been said that the success of “Snow White” was what caused MGM to create the cinematic classic “The Wizard of Oz.” Can you imagine the amount of classic movies we wouldn’t have got if it haven’t been for Walt?
Yes! He is also (I would assume) the most protective/logical one there ... his concerns are understandable ... and really all he needed was assurance that Snow White meant him no harm ... the kiss on the head definitely secured that trust 😊
Even though Snow loved all the Dwarves it was clear that she had a lot of affection for Grumpy. Disney himself called him the ‘Woman hater’ but cleverly developed his character so at the end he led the pack going after the Witch, one of the main ones sobbing at Snow White’s bedside and be the one who puts the flowers in her hands. 🥺
The queen’s transformation into the witch is actually fairly scary/weird. I was a little kid when I first saw the movie and specifically the scene where the white hair is flying out from the queen’s head covering gave me big chills.
Yes! What a great scene ... I can only imagine what it must have been like to see it as a kid ... and that mirror! Were you spooked at all by the floating mask?
@@latenightswithsammy yes!! 😄. Walt Disney does not hold anything back. I was chilled even before we see the face. The queen’s first line and first line of the movie: “Slave in the magic mirror…” sets a mood of what’s going on?/this movie is going to be really bizarre. And, then the face is a dark thing. I think current Walt Disney studio animation doesn’t really approach being that fearless in creative expression.
I agree! This era of Disney seems like it wasn't too pre-occupied with pandering to an audience (I may be wrong tho), and that's what I love about it. It's a literal rollercoaster of emotions ... and seeing it as an adult, I'm not shocked at its continued effect on me ... PURE CINEMA!
Throughout the screening, Disney tried to explain what Rosenberg was seeing. “When we’re through, that scene is going to be beautiful,” he said of a sketchy pencil test sequence. “Uh-huh,” Rosenberg replied. “I sat alone with Joe Rosenberg of the Bank of America, watching those bits and pieces on a screen, trying to sell him a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of faith,” Disney recalled. “After the lights came on, he didn’t show the slightest reaction to what he’d just seen. He walked out of the projection room, remarked that it was a nice day… and yawned! Then he turned to me and said, ‘Walt, that picture will make a pot full of money.'” What Disney didn’t know at the time was that Rosenberg, still unsure as to how profitable Snow White could be, had rung around a few industry contacts in Hollywood. “What do you think of this feature cartoon Disney’s doing?” Rosenberg asked. “I wouldn’t put a dime in it if I were you,” was one response. Fortunately, one of the other people Rosenberg called up was Hollywood producer Walter Wanger. Wanger told Rosenberg, “Joe, millions of people are going to like it. If Disney does as well as I know he’ll do, they’ll go for it.”
My favorite dwarf growing up was Doc. And my favorite scene was always Snow White singing and dancing with the dwarfs . I didn't think too much about it until I was much older, but I realized this could be the first time Snow White is able to be a kid after a long time! Think about it! The poor girl is only 14 years old, she lost her mom when she was a baby, then she lost her dad and was left in the "care" of her stepmother, was forced to practically give up her childhood and become a servant in her own home just because of something that wasn't her fault, and had to run away to avoid being killed by someone who should've been taking care of her, loving her, and guiding her to be the kingdom's future queen! The only time she ever had fun was probably singing with her bird friends while cleaning outside. But in this scene, she's actually being a kid! She's singing, laughing, dancing. She feels safe enough to actually be happy and not have to worry about the queen.
YES + YES! Doc is awesome, and Snow White dancing is brilliant as well! So glad to see these films actually stay on a scene for an extended period of time! So brilliant 😊
I love that when Snow White bites the apple, you hear her voice but don’t see the action. Suspense. And, then we get a scary punch out of the scene seeing her hand fall palm-up with a bite out of the apple.
I firmly believe Snow White And The Seven Dwarves to be THE most beautifully animated Disney film ever. That funeral/ wake scene makes me cry evey single time
You have very good taste! It is a magnificent film! Hopefully, when I get through watching all these Disney Classics, I could reevaluate which one had the most impact on me too 😊
The best animated Disney film IMO is _Pinocchio_ (and I'm speaking strictly of its animation, not the film itself). That being said, the elegiac quality of Snow White's death/funeral/wake scenes is so heartbreaking that those scenes are in a class of their own.
Amazingly, it's actually the same actress doing the voice of the Queen before and after her transformation! She had false teeth and always joked that her main secret to switching between the Queen and her Witch disguise was to remove her teeth. 😆
Didn't see it in the comments, but the reason the human characters look so realistically proportioned and move so realistically is due to extensive live action film that was used for reference by the animators. Especially in this movie, they relied heavily on live action reference and a process called rotoscoping, which is essentially tracing live action footage.
I think Walt wrote the dedication at the beginning of the movie a lot to recognize the historical significance and his personal pride. In 1937, it was a different world in animated entertainment. Basically, it was only short black and white cartoons (Fleischer Brothers’ original “Popeye “ shorts and some ancient black and white Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoons). Disney knew that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be a complete game changer in his industry. Before it came out, bold critics called the project ‘Disney’s Folly.’ After it came out, in 1937 Depression-era dollars, it was a huge box office hit. It also was a special phenomenon at the 1938 Academy Awards. It was given one big Oscar statuette, and seven little ones.
That's brilliant on Walt's behalf, and boy oh boy do they deserve all the recognition! As you've mentioned, it is indeed a game-changer, and forever will be etched into the history books as the best-animated film ever! 😊
@@latenightswithsammy there’s a fairly famous clip from that 1938 Oscars ceremony with Walt Disney talking to young Shirley Temple. In the clip, Shirley says, “Aren’t you proud of it, Mr. Disney?”
I love how much you appreciate the animation of these movies. As well as taking into account the year they were made. True craftsmanship at its best. Everything was hand drawn. That takes a lot of skill. Thank you for taking the time to truly point that out and appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the kind words! These films are masterpieces in their own right ... so much heart, passion and as you've mentioned 'craftsmanship' is displayed in every frame - it's simply a treat for mine eyes 😊
So when I was a kid I wasn't the biggest fan of this one but I watched it last year for a project I was doing for a friend of mine and I gotta say... this is an amazing film. So beautifully done and emotional not to mention funny.
I couldn't agree with you more ... I think it just gets better and better upon a re-watch. There is so much to admire in this film ... as you've mentioned, it's so beautiful, charming, and funny! 😊
The deer in this film was an experiment for the up-coming Bambi project. Watching Bambi shows you how much the animaters have grown in their abilities.
Audiences had something called patience back then, they weren't suffering from attention deficit disorder. The smooth actions of Snow White and the Prince looked that way because of rotoscoping. That's the filming of human figures going through the motions then the animators would trace over them. These early movie-length cartoons were painstakingly rendered 1 cell at a time, no computers, no rolling & repeating backgrounds. I'm glad you noticed the moving clouds in the background and the ripples in the water, this was an enormous effort. It's still an effective film, my nieces when they were little (in their 20s now) were scared by the scene of Snow White running through the forest and laughed at the dwarves. Another Disney film with a cleanup scene you need to react to if you haven't already seen it is "Mary Poppins". It's still one of my favorites and I'm over 60. The lead is stern and vain but caring too. The songs are ingrained in my memory.
Haha yes! I agree with you ... and I too wish more and more people would appreciate and give props to these amazing films that were made with so much love! Oh, and thank you so much for the recommendation, I've added it to the list 😊
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is Disney's masterpiece... there's so much to love about this perfect film. It's a simple fairy tale and yet it's timeless - it's got a great balance between purity, innocence and almost an unreal, angelic protagonist and probably the most terrifying (almost horror film quality) villain - I love that incredibly stark contrast - it makes the whole thing feel grander - they're not just human characters but they embody both angelic and satanic qualities. One of my favourite little facts is how they were inspired by Expressionist cinema/art for some of the scary scenes - so the scary forest sequence and the queen's transformation scene... just looking at the forest scene with Snow White screaming you can see how much it resembles the famous painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. It's the scariest/darkest of Disney's early classics and it really feels like a horror film for most of the plot since the whole thing hangs on Snow White having to hide away from a monster... there's an adventure element kind of in that she goes on a journey and makes friends along the way but the whole thing is framed like a monster film in which she simply has to run away and survive - I think that's a cool element people who saw it years as ago as a kid can forget and they just remember a very simple fairy tale and happy ending. Yes it has those elements but for all its simplicity it really goes to town on the dark, nightmarish quality for a classic fairy tale. To me, it's one of the best for that reason. I love your structural analysis of the story - it's interesting - the whole plot is true to a normal 3 Act Structure - we just spend more time than usual in what is called the "Fun & Games" part of Act II where the hero and B Story friend characters are bonding. What's also most interesting is that the story climax is her biting the apple and it happens at about the 90% mark in the story - in this way it is framed like a tragedy. Normally the hero's greatest loss happens right around 75% mark, they recover and learn their lesson before the great finale. However, in this story Snow White in fact suffers right around the same time a hero triumphs. So the film ultimately goes into its final few minutes like a tragedy - and it makes sense - the tragedy isn't that she bit the apple - there's something to be said about the tragedy of human innocence - she represents the inner child (the goodness) in all of us - that remains in her throughout the story and she never loses it - however that innocence also brings with it naivity. So the tragedy in the deeper message is that pure, good hearted innocent people in this world also can suffer for it - the story tells children and adults to keep that goodness and kindness but also be aware that the world will challenge it and try to take advantage of you for it. So yes the 'death' scene at the 90% basically makes the whole story feel like a deeper tragedy about the inevitable death of human purity that happens to a lot of people in life. And the prince's arrival could be seen as either a literal happy ending or also as a symbolic poetic justice/reward from the great beyond for her having lived a good life. I think of it as a literal happy ending - but I think the symbolism rings true - to me it represents the idea that for those of us who live good lives, we surpass death - and if we gave love to others in life it comes back around to us - because she looked after the dwarves they don't bury her (which saves her) and because she had a connection with the prince in the start, he also comes back for her. All the people she showed love to remember that and come to collect her and take her on to a perfect kingdom in the clouds. Again, Disney could have just gone with a literal castle but the way it's told as a kingdom in the clouds after she's risen from "death" just adds this whole other powerful meaning... it's like her soul/her spirit being taken on to the great beyond with her soul mate. It's just so perfectly done. Great reaction!
WOW! SAMUEL! I HAVE TO THANK YOU, SIR! This is a wonderfully written piece ... to which I'm almost shaking my head in agreement at every line! Couldn't have said it better my friend, this film is beyond a Masterpiece ... it's PURE CINEMA! 😊
The scenes of Snow White running through the dark forests is brilliantly scary imagery as this could be Snow White hallucinating that the trees are alive caused by the shock of being almost murdered by the Huntsman. I liked the transition that the eyes of the trees are actually the eyes of the cute little woodland animals. The Queen's transformation is good too as it brings to mind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I know that many people found it scary but I always found her disguise as the old hag a little cartoony especially her large eyes which always reminded me of Marty Feldman as I-gor in Young Frankenstein lol
Jonathan - you just brought up one of my favorite scenes! That dark forest was so brilliant - scary/moody/imaginative/yucky/terrifying and downright coooooool! I love how everything was animated to look like a monster ... so effective! I guess too that the old Hag does have quite a bit of exaggerated proportions ... but if I'm being honest, I would have been terrified to see her and what she did to Snow White as a young boy 😅
@@latenightswithsammy I probably would be the same if I saw the old hag in real life as a kid. I remember that the Disney parks used to have a ride called Snow White's Scary Adventures which mainly had all the scary parts of the movie including the old hag and of course, the dark forest. I was lucky enough to go on this ride at Disneyworld when I went on holiday at Florida years ago before it closed down to make way for the expansion of Fantasyland.
@@Spindler2007 WOW!!!! That sounds like an amazing ride! I'm trying to picture what it would be like, and also doing it as a child ... awesome! Thank you for sharing this memory :)
@@latenightswithsammy No problem. Luckily, there are many videos of the ride from all disney parks here on RUclips. There's even an evolution video of the ride as well. 😀
@@latenightswithsammy Exactly Walt Disney left us way too soon (he was only 65). 😞 Can you imagine what else he would have accomplished had he lived longer? R.I.P Walt Disney 🥺😢 12/05/1901 - 12/15/1966
YES! He is due soo much praise and admiration! He was a major pioneer and visionary ... could only imagine what other projects would have come out under his supervision ... he is missed
One evening in 1934, Walt Disney got up on a recording stage in front of an assembled group of his animators. Over the course of about four hours, he went through the story of Snow White-the fairytale princess who earns the hatred of her stepmother, the Evil Queen, and finds refuge with seven dwarves who live in a forest. Disney acted out the tale with his trademark enthusiasm before delivering a final, startling piece of news: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs would be a feature-length movie. This wouldn’t just be a first for the studio-which had spent the past few years making a string of highly successful shorts-it would be the first animated feature film in the world. Simply put, nothing like it had ever been attempted before. Nevertheless, the belief Walt Disney showed in his 1934 presentation proved to be infectious. Although initially taken aback by the thought of drawing an 80-minute film to life, the animators were beguiled by Disney’s idea. “He was doing something no other studio had ever attempted,” art director Ken Anderson later said, “but his excitement over Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs inspired us all.” “It took guts to do what Walt did,” agreed animator Ollie Johnston. “The story is based on the idea that the Queen is going to murder this girl. That’s one drawing killing another drawing. Walt convinced us that this could be done so that it would be believable, and we all believed him.” The rest of the Hollywood film industry remained skeptical. When word got out that Walt was working on an animated feature, it was widely, and smirkingly, described as “Disney’s Folly.” For Walt Disney, branching out into features may have been risky, but it was also an important progression. The studio’s short films had continued to push technical boundaries and win awards-the Silly Symphony piece, The Three Little Pigs, won an Oscar in 1934-but the cost of making them was rising. The use of short films as ‘filler’ was also beginning to fall out of favor in theaters with double features taking their place. All this led Walt to start thinking about taking the leap into features. After a few false starts, such as when proposed adaptations of Alice In Wonderland and Rip Van Winkle were considered, Disney pushed ahead with Snow White. The major question was whether audiences would pay to see almost 90 minutes of animation, with not a real human being in sight? “It was prophesied that nobody would sit through such a thing,” Disney later said. “But there was only one way we could do it successfully and that was to plunge ahead and go for broke: shoot the works. There could be no compromising on money, talent or time […] and this was at a time when the whole country was in the midst of a crippling depression.” “We had a little money rolling in,” Walt said, “but not enough to finance such a big deal. Our assets were pretty impressive though-we had our studio and a backlog of marketable pictures-so we could get credit backing.” This meant that Disney was literally betting everything, including his own house, on Snow White being a success. If Snow White sank, the studio would be pulled down with it. More worryingly still, the experimental nature of Snow White made predicting its budget extremely difficult. Although the project would use many of the innovations introduced in Disney’s short films, such as the pioneering multiplane camera, which gave a sense of depth to a 2D image, Walt wanted to bring a more realistic style to the movie. “I had brought in specialists to help with our composition and our use of color, but we still had a fight on our hands for better animation,” Disney told his daughter Diane, whose account was published in a 1956 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. “The kind of animation we were after was entirely new. Before that, it had been done by stunts: limber legs moving in trick runs like egg beaters. But in Snow White, we wanted our action believable. We were after drama and pathos as well as laughter. You can’t pull a tear from an audience with legs whirling like windmills.” To this end, Disney’s animators practiced life drawing, and spent hours, not to mention thousands of drawings, coming up with the look and movement of their characters. Footage from the period shows Disney’s artists studying how a long, flowing beard might move at the shake of a head, or how cloth billowed in the breeze. “The first thing I did when I got a little money to experiment,” Walt explained, “I put all my artists back in school. We were dealing in motion, movement, the flow of movement. Action, reaction. So we had to set up our own school.”
A BEAUTIFUL story about taking risks, and it paid off ... 😊 ... it's no wonder that Disney are at the top of their game compared to the rest ... beautiful leadership and vision!
@@latenightswithsammy Nya, It's a good story but not exactly completely accurate. You see, before "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" there were ten other animated feature films in the world. In fact, one of them was a test film made by Walt Disney studios to check the reaction of the North American public. Most people don't count it among Disney classics because it's a test film but technically speaking "Academy award review of Walt Disney cartoons" was the first Disney feature film. For many years it was believed that "El apóstol" (The Apostle) (1917) by Qurino Cristiani was the first animated feature film in history but now there is evidence of the existence of an older film, "Creation" (1915) made by none other than Pinto Colvig , the man who voiced Goofy. "Creation" is a mysterious film about which there is hardly any information. Only one ad and four frames have been discovered so far. Pinto Colvig himself seems to be one of the characters, There is not even confirmation on the plot but my theory based on the preserved images is that the story is about Colvig entering a cartoon world and helping the other characters or about Colvig doing an animated short and the characters coming to life and escaping into the real world. There is more information about "The Apostle", images, stills, descriptions of people who saw it in the cinema, newspaper reviews and even a documentary in which we can see Quirino working on it, which includes a brief scene to increase the hype for the premiere. The plot follows the adventures of Hipólito Yrigoyen, a real Argentine politician, who sneaks into Olympus and steals the powers of the gods with the intention of using them to end the corruption of Buenos Aires. Unfortunately each of his attempts ends in disaster and he finally ends up destroying Argentina first and the whole world later. Yes, as strange as it may seem, the first animated film with a confirmed plot is a political satire mixed with adventures. Quirino was the first person in the world to establish a continuous production of animated feature films, but unfortunately his other feature films are also lost. "Sin dejar rastros" (Without leaving a trace) (1918) mixes satire with adventure again. It is about the German commander Baron Von Luxburg who sinks an Argentine ship and tries to frame the Entente for the act, with the intention that Argentina goes to war with all the countries that are part of it. The intervention of the survivors at the last second manages to avoid it. "Peludópolis" (1931) again has the politician Hipólito as the protagonist. This time taking the role of a pirate and with his ship Peludópolis and his crew he tries to find the island of Cheeseland and confronts Pelado, another politician in the role of a pirate who wants to steal his ship. Another South American animated film that is believed lost (although there is a chance that a copy will appear at some point) is "Vida y milagros of Don Fausto" (Life and Miracles of Don Fausto) (1924) by Carlos Espejo and Carlos F. Borcosque, a comedy that adapted the comic " Bringing up father" and in which the character live a lot of adventures during a trip to Chile. I know It's sad to hear about all these lost movies, but luckily there are others that have had better luck. The oldest of these is "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926) by Lotte Reiniger, based on several "One Thousand and One Nights" stories. Another one is "The tale of the fox" (1930) by Ladislas Starevich which adapts the medieval stories of Renard the fox. Renard is an anti-hero used to tricking and taking advantage of the other animals in the kingdom. The king, tired of listening to complaints from his subjects, gives the order to catch him and that triggers the whole adventure. Aleksandr Ptushko's "The new Gulliver" (1935), which combines live action with animation, is another adaptation of a classic, as you might imagine "Gulliver's travels". "The Seven Ravens" (1937) by Ferdinand and Herman Diehl adapts, like Disney, is an adaptation of a Grimm brothers story. If you have the opportunity, take a look at all of them. They are really good and It's quite a journey. All these people were experimenting with all kinds of animation techniques and story treatments. All of them were pioneers discovering their own way of making an animated feature film without relying on what others had done. This makes the movies unique and amazing. None of this movies will remind you of the Disney style for more than obvious reasons. It's so interesting to see animated feature films that predate the Disney boom. It's peeking into a world of possibilities. If one this other production companies had been imposed instead of Disney the animation industry would have developed in a completely different way.
Snow White is kind of the template for how Disney Cast Members at the Parks interact with guests, no matter what range of mood the guests are in. Having been in the Disney College Program, I can attest to this. Edit: Also Snow White is 14 years old in the film. The youngest of all the princesses in their respective stories.
Snow White remains one of the most influential movies of all time. Of any genre, not just animated. When it came out in 1937, audiences immediately fell in love with it. What critics initially derived as "Disney's Folly" soon became a smash hit at the box office, earning the equivalent of $600 million.
WOW ... what a way to show the industry that Disney is a heavy contender that means business 😆 I'm so happy it did well; it's such a beautiful film after all.
@@latenightswithsammy Everything about Snow White is perfection. The rich animation, memorable characters, catchy songs, and the raw emotion all make it a masterpiece.
Notice that when Snow White is guessing the dwarfs' names according to their physical or behavioral traits ("Sneezy", "Bashful", "Grumpy", etc.), one of the other dwarfs identifies "Dopey." It would've been against Snow White's kind nature to make such a guess herself.
fun fact: the Prince would have a bigger role, but most of his scenes were cut because of budget limitations (you remember when the Queen asks a skeleton if it's thirsty? originally, it would have the Prince in there instead)
Your reaction to this movie is by far the best I've ever seen! You really understood all the messages protrayed in it, and it made me so happy since Snow White is one of my favourite Disney movies :)
Since you watched Disney’s first animated feature film, you should also watch the last one Walt Disney himself produced before he died, The Jungle Book (1967). Just a disclaimer though, it ignores the original book almost completely; Walt felt the book’s story was too dark and heavily detailed for the kind of movies he was used to making, so he made his own story with the same characters.
Ahhh ... sweet! Since the film was Walt Disney's last ... I think it'll be awesome to watch this with respect to him / Memoriam ... December 15. Thank you so much, Joe, for the wonderful recommendation and insight 😊
Snow white's voice actor died in 1997 But some years before she said to a girl who was asking her to sing the song of the movie And her voice even if she was old was such an angelic voice Then cinderella's voice actor died in 2010 And at first she wanted to be a teacher but then she decides to do cinderella's voice actor Then aurora's voice actor really loved the song she was singing in 1959 And she is still alive now she is 93 And there was a movie with all the disney princesses that was out in 2018 And their voice actors was their real voice actors Except for snow white and Cinderella's because they passed away And except for aurora's because she now wants to live her last days in peace
It always surprises me how some people forget and others don’t know that Snow White, was/is Walt Disneys first princess and first feature long movie in color. And Snow White is 11-12 years old
30:42 kids can handle so much more than you think. When i watched this i was 6, i enjoyed every moment of the film, i always liked it, i never got scared, its not like i thought it was real
(locks up gems in vault, locks vault with key, and then hangs KEY ON VAULT DOOR) I honestly LMAO over that scene when I rewatched it for the first time as an adult. It caught me completely by surprise. If you want a real Disney shared universe, then the series "Once Upon A Time" should be on your list. Maybe you can react to it. In the original fairytale, it was seven MINERS and no mention if they were dwarves or not. The Evil Queen lives, sort of. After being captured, red hot iron shoes are put on her feet and she was forced to dance until she died.
I think "Once Upon A Time" is on Hulu. It started slow, got really good, and then in later seasons it got really dumb. It got so bad that I stopped watching it before it officially ended. The characters kept making the same stupid mistakes they made at the start of the show just to stretch out the seasons.
Season 5 and 6 is where the terrible writing starts to kick in, but it completes the story that the show started. I only suggest you skip season 7 entirely.
5:26 The only thing that triggers me about this movie is that this is actually the biggest age gap in a princess disney movie. Prince Florian here is actually 37 while Snow White is 14... 😩✋
I can believe Snow White is only 14, but I see no evidence in the film that the Prince is 37 or that his name is Florian. He looks a lot younger than that to me, maybe even as young as 18.
It is EPIC! I love the close-up on her hands too! The lengths the Queen went through to kill Snow White ... she became an old hag ... that's dedication right there 😆
I think the Queen's death is one of the scariest. She falled off a cliff AND got crushed by a giant rock. That's horrible O-O Gaston too plus i'm sure he drowned after falling off the castle's roof. Damn that's brutal!
If I had to guess. I would Guess Snow White to be very young. Since she scared herself in the forest when it was dark. But then there are times when she seems quite grown up. Although now that I'm older I feel that it was more like a girl "Playing House." Cooking and cleaning and being sweet. I know that she's one of the youngest Disney Princesses. 14 years old. although she feels much younger than that in some places.
Thank you so much + WOW ... that's an experience of a lifetime! What a great film to watch on the BIG screen! Could only hope to one day watch it there too 😊
The movie was made from paintings and they used real makeup and Disney wanted the Prince to have more screen time but they had a hard time animating him that he's only seen in the beginning and when he kisses snow white. There is a video Making Of Snow White u should check it out
Snow White was the first full-length animated feature! Ever! People in the business thought Disney was crazy trying to make a full-length animated movie. He took a considerable risk to make it, and it changed the history of cinema. :)
Right on! The stories behind the making of this film is almost as brilliant, and awe-inspiring as the film itself. What a beautiful piece of cinema we have because of them ☺️
The way that they were able to give layers to an animated film was because of something the studio created called the Multiplane Camera which was a camera at the top of a tall tower pointed down and there were be various layers which the panes of painted glass could be placed and altered going in different directions and the camera would shoot down to give the effect of multiple layers.
Theres just something so beautiful about the old hand drawn animations that just cant be beaten. I remember being terrified by the scene in the forest when i was a kid. The story is just so charming and always makes me smile. Grumpy was always my favourite dwarf. He always reminded me of my gramps when he was pretending to be 'mean and moody'.🎉t makes me so sad to see what they are doing to the classics now.
When Snow White is making the pies for the dwarfs and putting their names on them, she puts the name Grumpy on his pie and is immediately startled by the witch’s appearance. I just recently thought that she was naming the pie for the one dwarf who didn’t like her when she first sees the witch.
I share your sentiments as well! It was so heart-warming to see that the first pie she was to bake ... was for the one who called her names/doubted her, / and showed attitude. When the Witch appeared interrupting this beautiful scene ... I sincerely wished no harm upon this sweet soul 😅
Man, I remember when I used to have a Snow White dress when I was little. My dad had told me stories about my dress. So basically, my mom bought it for me as a Halloween costume because I LOVED Snow White so much! Yes, I still do now that I’m 21 years old. Anyways, for the next couple of weeks or so, I wore my Snow White dress non stop. I wore it EVERYWHERE. I even slept & wet the bed while wearing it. Yes, I had to take it off before bathing. After a week or so, the dress eventually fell apart. The cape, sleeves & yellow part came off. I then learned that nobody can wear clothes like that for 3 weeks straight. It’s one of those lessons I’ll never forget. Lol the memories. 😆
Wow ... What a connection you have to this film 🙂 utterly precious! Thank you so much for sharing this .. I could only hope you'd have one to keep forever moving on 😁
Sammy, I'm sure somebody has already said this but you really need to see Enchanted with Amy Adams. It takes all these Disney Princess tropes and turns them on their head in a delightful way.
The motion capture in the animation was so human-like, it scared me at times by just how ridiculously amazing it was. There movements were so effortless for a film made in the 1930s. A masterpiece! Amazing reaction!!💚💙💜
It truly is! I'm amazed by all the detail, both in the foreground and back. I completely concur with your conclusion: MASTERPIECE! Oh, and thank you very much for the kind words 😊
This was Disney's first animated movie and while it's not the first full-lenght animated movie ever (there have been two others but those have been lost), it is the first full-lenght cell-animated movie ever and the first commercially succesful one. It also made Hollywood more open to produce fantasy or fairy tale movies, it inspired MGM to make The Wizard of Oz.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full length animated movie ever made. If it weren't for the grand success of this movie, all the others that followed wouldn't have appeared
100% !! I hope more and more people watch this beautiful film to see that even in the '30s there was beautiful storytelling and craftsmanship on display ... 😊
I usually dislike reaction channels, but I really dig yours! I subscribed after you saw The Wizard of Oz, my fave movie of all time. And not surprised you did this one, too! Saw it at Christmas time in good old 1984 at the mall with my Grandma. Sweet memory of my youth! Thanks for watching!
Hey David! Thank you so much for the kind words and support my friend ... it really means a lot 😊 And yes, those two films will forever me lodged into my brain ... just too good to forget 😆
aaaaaa tysm for this reaction 🥺🥺 your commentaries are always so interesting and fun!! If you like animated movies I think an interesting one for you to check out would be "Anastasia" (1997) (It's a FOX original but Disney later on bought FOX so now she belongs to disney!) The animation is pretty dope and absolutely one of my all time favs!
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! Its definitely regarding having such passionate fans of these Disney Classics like yourself that I get to be able to converse with 😊 OH, and thank you so much for the recommendation, I've officially added it onto the 'Fantasy Wednesday' list 😆
@@latenightswithsammy you are so welcome! I just love the thoughts you put onto these movies! I am a huge disney fan and seeing people appreciate also the classic ones makes my heart warm 🥺. Definitely one if not the best reactor to disney classics I have seen on youtube! People normally tend to just watch it through and then think about if they liked it or not but you really appreciate them so thank you for that!! ^^
Thank you * a million! I'm so appreciative that we can share this moment and enjoy a mutual connection with this film! Trust me when I say I was probably the last person to watch 'Disney Classics,' but ever since I did, I wouldn't turn back. It showered me with so much inspiration and downright appreciation for what came long before ... and it also connected me to an AMAZING community of Disney fans ... thank you for the support and kind words ... my heart has melted 😊
Great to see a young man watch an 85-year-old cartoon be not only impressed, but enjoying the content. I’m going to watch your review of Cinderella next. Appreciate your insights on this one.
I greatly appreciate your intelligent comments. There are a number of books that recall the production of SNOW WHITE and its challenges. The main credit for the structure has been confirmed consistently as being the direction of Walt Disney. There were several abandoned sequences that Walt felt unnecessary as they did not advance the story. One of them was a song sequence after the dwarfs wash up, where Snow White tries to teach them table etiquette, "The Music in Your Soup." Another was a bed-building sequence. There were other sequences storyboarded, showing the Prince imprisoned by the Queen. Because the Animators had enough difficulty in animating a convincing human male character, and because this sequence was off the line of the story, it was wisely discarded before going into production. There was a completed scene of the "Witch" hovering over the cauldron, exclaiming, "Boil, boil!" While elaborately and expensively produced, it was again wisely discarded. By the way, Snow White is about 14 years old. Such things existed in society in the Middle Ages since marriages were acceptable from puberty since people did not normally live as long as they do now. And it is worth realizing that children were raised to know how to do things to enter adult life, which began at age 13. When you look at some of the figures of history such as Joan of Arc, they accomplished great things while still in their teens. or early 20s. There were many more people involved with the production that time did not allow for screen credits, as it took 100s of people working on many intricate details to reach this achievement. Money was getting scarce, and Disney had mortgaged the studio to The Bank of America in order to get the finishing funds. Originally estimated at $250,000, the final cost was $1.8 Million. Disney's assets of $600,000 were already spent, and the obviously needed another $1,200,000. It grossed over $9,000,000. And because money was so tight, many people worked without pay for the sake of what they were working on because they saw its greatness. While there were stories about Disney promising bonuses afterward, that never happened. Instead, a new studio was built in Burbank, California, which exists today.
It's not Snow white's fault if she was too naive and got tricked by the Queen. She had no parents or education so it's normal that she trusted strangers. The poor girl was very unlucky, it's sad ;( Also she's 14 so Snow is still a kid. I'm glad she was saved by the dwarves. It's a bit creepy that the Prince KISSED her when she was dead. Guess this guy found it normal to kiss a dead person, wheter she's beautiful or not. Ok X)
I agree with you 100% Snow White was a kind person to every one ... no one told her not to trust strangers ... however, she's still a queen in my eyes 🥰 Oh, and yes, kinda creepy 🤣
@@latenightswithsammy But didn't the dwarves tell her that "the old queen's a sly one, so beware of strangers"? And Grumpy specifically told her, "I'm warnin' ya! Don't let nobody or nothin' in the house!" I know she's 14, and naturally, Queen Grimhilde wouldn't have taught her basic things like that, but she really should have listened when the dwarves warned her about stranger danger. That's something that we teach kids as young as two nowadays, and I've known many a parent (including my own mother) to use this movie as an object lesson to very small kids, to not scare them s*itless about the *actual* realities of stranger danger. Of course, the whole "poisoned apple/enchanted sleep thing gets updated later on as the kid grows up enough to understand *real* danger, but in my case, my mom waited until I was about 4 before telling me the cold hard facts: go off with a stranger, and you'll never see your family again. You'll be lucky if you live long enough to catch a last glimpse of the sun. By the time I was 4 and a half, she had enrolled me in self-defense class. If I were in Snow's shoes, at 14, I could probably have turned that poisoned fruit into applesauce, if I were even clueless enough to take it in the first place. But, to be fair, my mom used to work for the sheriff's office, so stranger danger was a huge deal in my house.
Hi Sammy! Can I leave a suggestion? I think you should react to Robin Hood (Disney). It`s kinda of a simple movie but it's as enjoyable as Peter Pan, and one of my favourite classics
The Wizard Of Oz was released two years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I am just now wondering if the ‘Oz’ filmmakers were influenced by Snow White specifically saying goodbye to the dwarfs. Dorothy Gale gets an extremely touching moment saying goodbye to her Oz friends near the end of that movie. I truly don’t cry at movies, but I get a little emotional at each movie’s goodbye scenes.
I feel bad for Sneezy. If he sneezes, his brothers become agitated, but I just hope he remembers to keep his eyes shut when he sneezes. If they're open, he could blast his eyes out of his skull.
i found your channel a few days ago and i adore your reactions. 1) I love disney and 2) I love hearing someone talk about animation, don't get that a lot in the uk so I appreciate it. Keep up the amazing reactions, I have subscribed, can't wait for more also my favourite dwarf would be Dopey because that would be me haha
this is the first video of yours that I've stumbled upon and I already love your reactions, they're so in depth and you seem very appreciative of all the work that went into this movie, I love it :D
Depends on what cannon you reference. OUAT says yes, as do the Serena Valentino books, and the Descendants series. But otherwise, it's only alluded to in Easter eggs throughout their animated films. (For example, you catch a glimpse of Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert and Rapunzel, post-haircut, at Elsa's coronation in Frozen, and you can briefly see Belle walking the streets of Paris in Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
Movie Odyssey Retrospective Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) On December 21, 1937, Hollywood’s stars and executives strode a blue carpet ushering them into a packed Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. The chilly night air typified expectations of the film premiering that evening. This was a premiere unlike any other, one for an animated feature film. During the silent film era and first decade of talkies, animated film evolved from simple gag drawings to endowing animated characters with personalities to character-driven short films heavy on slapstick (think Looney Tunes). For Walt Disney, supervising director David Hand, and the band of underpaid animators that they oversaw, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the first cel-animated feature film; the oldest-surviving animated feature is from 1926 and the first animated feature is now lost) was a statement of purpose - an artistic culmination stemming from the Mickey Mouse shorts and especially the Silly Symphony series. But on the night of the premiere, Walt, Hand, and the animators that were invited or purchased a ticket had no clue how the audience would receive their work. With a fortune invested in the movie’s production, “Disney’s Folly” was predicted to be financially ruinous. The lights dimmed. The audience found themselves entranced by the opening shot of the Queen’s castle; they applauded the background art when no animation was on the screen; they laughed at the dwarfs’ antics and adored the childlike Snow White. Then came Snow White’s presumed death. As her body rested in a glass coffin and the dwarfs and woodland animals tended to her wake, Walt, Hand, and the animators looked around the theater in disbelief. The calculating Hollywood executives, the pampered actors, and the cynical journalists and film reviewers sniffed their noses, some openly weeping. “Love’s first kiss” be damned; the animators, Hand, and Walt had triumphed. Walt’s dream of making animated cinema as dramatically and emotionally impactful as any live-action film had been realized. Securing the studio’s future to the temporary relief of Roy O. Disney (who managed the studio’s finances so often overspent by Walt), Snow White began the most important and accomplished run of consecutive animated features in history. By the end of that run with Bambi (1942), seldom would any animated films in the decades that followed achieve that mix of dramatic and emotional power without condescending to its audience. Sorry to dump all this info on you, but Snow White is monterously important to American Culture and to WOrld Cinema, This story shouldn't be forgotten, since Walt and his team of artists are some of my heroes to this day.
In the end of the vhs I saw, there was a bonus with the making off of the movie where we can see the first drawings of Snow-White (some look like Betty Boop) and we even see the guy who inspired Happy's dance during the song. I also remember it showed there was supposed to have a scene when the my eat
Hi Sammy, I just subscribed! ❤️ You seem to be a very kind and joyful person and this is the first movie reaction I'm watching from you. Very happy RUclips recommended you. ❤️ I love Disney movies so much, especially the older ones. They have a very sweet and unique charm!
Hey Sarah! Thank you so much for the kind words and support, you don't know how much they mean to me 😊 I'm so glad to be a part of a community that loves + adores these films! It melts my heart 🥰
whenever i see ppl reacting to the disney movies, i wish they would know how the original stories go. i grew up with my mom reading them to me and they are so much more cruel than the movies lol
As I reached adulthood, if I ever saw this movie again, Doc's intro and question of "What are you, and who are you doing?" sounds like a simple mistake of the tongue, but now it turns my ears a shade of red I've never seen before. Post puberty, "who are you doing" has a whole other meaning. I always assumed Snow was a virginal beauty, with a heart as pure as the driven snow. I guess subconsciously, Doc did not agree with that one... Times like these, I start to regret having been a psychology major in college. It really screws with your mind to have a background in Psych and watch Disney at the same time.
Since Once upon a Time concluded, there is a position available for the dwarf named Stealthy. Not stealthy enough, it seems, as he was caught and killed off by the Evil Queen(Regina)'s forces.
AHHHHH ... Erik, that's an amazing explanation. It all makes sense (the end frame) now! But ... how would the animals and the Seven Dwarfs have seen her if she was 🤔
@@latenightswithsammy well, idk, I guess in my theory that was her "heaven", it's the ideal version of a happy ending happening in her afterlife. It's probably just in my head actually, but who knows? Disney always put hidden meanings in their movies
True ... but I ( *really* ) like your theory, it makes the ending that much more than just a regular 'happy' ending, it's bittersweet ... just like real life 😊
Without this beautiful beautiful movie we would not have the great animated movies we have today. Pixar wouldn't exist and studio ghibli wouldn't exist. It was all thanks to that 1 investor who gave Walt Disney the funding he desperately needed to make this happen. Kristen bell has no right to criticize this movie.
Well it is the first Disney animated feature length film. Plus the actual Grimm fairytale is much darker. The blush work and the pigment mixtures was done all by the ladies in the studio. Disney actually copyrighted Snow White's voice.
Favourite Dwarf, GO!
Grumpy is a whole mood 💀💀✋
Dopey
That he is 🤣 Loved that they had one of the Dwarves be the 'non-believer' moody one ...
Dopey is so adorable ... he doesn't need to say a word and yet he's so charming 🥰
Dopeyyyy
The queen was so obsessed with killing Snow White that she even forgot about the original goal of being beautiful
YUP! That's such a good point! She had to turn into something that was completely the opposite of her intended goal. It comments on the ugly nature of jealousy, competition, and greed ... beautiful storytelling 👍
As a disguise though
Yeah, I don't think she'd have done it if she thought it would be permanent, though...
Temporary transfiguration spell
The Queen was so obsessed about being beautiful that it turned her into something very ugly.
snow white is such an emotionally strong character, right along with cinderella. she's been forced to work as a scullery maid, just been told her only family wants her dead, driven through hell, and within moments she pulls herself together, APOLOGIZES for having a breakdown and tries to make amends. she doesn't have animal friends because they just love her, but because she reached her hand out and was kind to them first. i love how resilient she is, and that she didn't expect to stay in the house for nothing, exchanging her skills for shelter. kindness can be underrated in media, but there's a reason snow white endures- there's more to strength than just swinging a sword around.
i also love the glitter of the gems, every incredible animation moment, and here's my favorite fun fact: to get the echo when snow white is singing into the well, they used the ladies bathroom when it was empty.
I just about agree with everything you've mentioned! She's one of a kind, and I love you pointed out how underrated 'kindness' is: and Snow White is probably the best example of it 😀 oh and that well scene was just beautiful!
I first saw this movie when I was two. My mom still tells the story about how I began shouting at the screen, “DON’T EAT IT! DON’T EAT IT!!!” She had to pull me out into the lobby of the theater to calm me down.
Ohhhhhhh! That's so adorable ... you were so into the scene that you wanted her at all costs NOT to eat that apple! That's just awesome! Thank you so much, Joe, for sharing that story 😊
I can always remember watching this with my little sister and how much she was crying and so sad when she ate the apple. and I just held her and said just keep watching it’s gonna be ok.
@@tylerkowalski3862 Ahhhhhhh ... that's such a sweet thing to do ... thank you so much for sharing that memory Tyler 😊
Fun fact: it has been said that the success of “Snow White” was what caused MGM to create the cinematic classic “The Wizard of Oz.” Can you imagine the amount of classic movies we wouldn’t have got if it haven’t been for Walt?
He is a pure visionary! So glad we are able to partake in his magic 😆
Grumpy’s got the best character development out of all the dwarves hands down lol
Yes! He is also (I would assume) the most protective/logical one there ... his concerns are understandable ... and really all he needed was assurance that Snow White meant him no harm ... the kiss on the head definitely secured that trust 😊
Grumpy is the one who tells the dwarves to get on the deer and ride to the rescue when everyone else, even Doc, is confused
Omg, I never realized it until now, but Grumpy was a tsundere!
He was a tsundere before tsundere's were even a thing!
🤣🤣 - I had to Google that word, and I can confirm, he most certainly is a tsundere!
lol😛
Even though Snow loved all the Dwarves it was clear that she had a lot of affection for Grumpy. Disney himself called him the ‘Woman hater’ but cleverly developed his character so at the end he led the pack going after the Witch, one of the main ones sobbing at Snow White’s bedside and be the one who puts the flowers in her hands. 🥺
What a great character arc Grumpy has ... I so love that the pie we see before Snow White goes is made first for Grumpy 🥰
The queen’s transformation into the witch is actually fairly scary/weird. I was a little kid when I first saw the movie and specifically the scene where the white hair is flying out from the queen’s head covering gave me big chills.
Yes! What a great scene ... I can only imagine what it must have been like to see it as a kid ... and that mirror! Were you spooked at all by the floating mask?
@@latenightswithsammy yes!! 😄. Walt Disney does not hold anything back. I was chilled even before we see the face. The queen’s first line and first line of the movie: “Slave in the magic mirror…” sets a mood of what’s going on?/this movie is going to be really bizarre. And, then the face is a dark thing. I think current Walt Disney studio animation doesn’t really approach being that fearless in creative expression.
I was five years old when I first saw this movie, on a 1983 theatrical re-release.
I agree! This era of Disney seems like it wasn't too pre-occupied with pandering to an audience (I may be wrong tho), and that's what I love about it. It's a literal rollercoaster of emotions ... and seeing it as an adult, I'm not shocked at its continued effect on me ... PURE CINEMA!
Got creeped out by the noises of the potions.
Throughout the screening, Disney tried to explain what Rosenberg was seeing. “When we’re through, that scene is going to be beautiful,” he said of a sketchy pencil test sequence.
“Uh-huh,” Rosenberg replied.
“I sat alone with Joe Rosenberg of the Bank of America, watching those bits and pieces on a screen, trying to sell him a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of faith,” Disney recalled. “After the lights came on, he didn’t show the slightest reaction to what he’d just seen. He walked out of the projection room, remarked that it was a nice day… and yawned! Then he turned to me and said, ‘Walt, that picture will make a pot full of money.'”
What Disney didn’t know at the time was that Rosenberg, still unsure as to how profitable Snow White could be, had rung around a few industry contacts in Hollywood. “What do you think of this feature cartoon Disney’s doing?” Rosenberg asked.
“I wouldn’t put a dime in it if I were you,” was one response.
Fortunately, one of the other people Rosenberg called up was Hollywood producer Walter Wanger. Wanger told Rosenberg, “Joe, millions of people are going to like it. If Disney does as well as I know he’ll do, they’ll go for it.”
Thank goodness for visionary Hollywood Producers like Walter Wagner ... Thank you for sharing this beautiful story Nicki 😊
My favorite dwarf growing up was Doc. And my favorite scene was always Snow White singing and dancing with the dwarfs . I didn't think too much about it until I was much older, but I realized this could be the first time Snow White is able to be a kid after a long time! Think about it! The poor girl is only 14 years old, she lost her mom when she was a baby, then she lost her dad and was left in the "care" of her stepmother, was forced to practically give up her childhood and become a servant in her own home just because of something that wasn't her fault, and had to run away to avoid being killed by someone who should've been taking care of her, loving her, and guiding her to be the kingdom's future queen! The only time she ever had fun was probably singing with her bird friends while cleaning outside.
But in this scene, she's actually being a kid! She's singing, laughing, dancing. She feels safe enough to actually be happy and not have to worry about the queen.
YES + YES! Doc is awesome, and Snow White dancing is brilliant as well! So glad to see these films actually stay on a scene for an extended period of time! So brilliant 😊
I like that scene too. I remember some friends had a music box playing that music
I love that when Snow White bites the apple, you hear her voice but don’t see the action. Suspense. And, then we get a scary punch out of the scene seeing her hand fall palm-up with a bite out of the apple.
Yes! We hear her bite and feel the pain while looking at the Queen/Witch/Hag react to her evil plot succeed - torturous and effective 😂
2:18 Snow White was actually Disney's first animated film so that's always being a cute thing!
It's so impressive! Good on Walt Disney for starting with a bonafide hit 💥
I firmly believe Snow White And The Seven Dwarves to be THE most beautifully animated Disney film ever.
That funeral/ wake scene makes me cry evey single time
You have very good taste! It is a magnificent film! Hopefully, when I get through watching all these Disney Classics, I could reevaluate which one had the most impact on me too 😊
I would love to hear your thoughts! 😊
The best animated Disney film IMO is _Pinocchio_ (and I'm speaking strictly of its animation, not the film itself). That being said, the elegiac quality of Snow White's death/funeral/wake scenes is so heartbreaking that those scenes are in a class of their own.
Amazingly, it's actually the same actress doing the voice of the Queen before and after her transformation! She had false teeth and always joked that her main secret to switching between the Queen and her Witch disguise was to remove her teeth. 😆
WOW ... talk about method acting! That's actually really impressive, FOOLED ME!
Didn't see it in the comments, but the reason the human characters look so realistically proportioned and move so realistically is due to extensive live action film that was used for reference by the animators. Especially in this movie, they relied heavily on live action reference and a process called rotoscoping, which is essentially tracing live action footage.
Beautiful ... no wonder it's so beautiful, this film bears a lot of talented people's "blood, sweat, and tears," it's remarkable
Even though Snow White was a guest she still commands authority and respect, literally ruling through kindness
Agreed!
I think Walt wrote the dedication at the beginning of the movie a lot to recognize the historical significance and his personal pride. In 1937, it was a different world in animated entertainment. Basically, it was only short black and white cartoons (Fleischer Brothers’ original “Popeye “ shorts and some ancient black and white Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoons). Disney knew that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be a complete game changer in his industry. Before it came out, bold critics called the project ‘Disney’s Folly.’ After it came out, in 1937 Depression-era dollars, it was a huge box office hit. It also was a special phenomenon at the 1938 Academy Awards. It was given one big Oscar statuette, and seven little ones.
That's brilliant on Walt's behalf, and boy oh boy do they deserve all the recognition! As you've mentioned, it is indeed a game-changer, and forever will be etched into the history books as the best-animated film ever! 😊
@@latenightswithsammy there’s a fairly famous clip from that 1938 Oscars ceremony with Walt Disney talking to young Shirley Temple. In the clip, Shirley says, “Aren’t you proud of it, Mr. Disney?”
@@nickperkins8477 Awesome! I gotta check it out 😆
I love how much you appreciate the animation of these movies. As well as taking into account the year they were made.
True craftsmanship at its best.
Everything was hand drawn. That takes a lot of skill.
Thank you for taking the time to truly point that out and appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the kind words! These films are masterpieces in their own right ... so much heart, passion and as you've mentioned 'craftsmanship' is displayed in every frame - it's simply a treat for mine eyes 😊
So when I was a kid I wasn't the biggest fan of this one but I watched it last year for a project I was doing for a friend of mine and I gotta say... this is an amazing film. So beautifully done and emotional not to mention funny.
I couldn't agree with you more ... I think it just gets better and better upon a re-watch. There is so much to admire in this film ... as you've mentioned, it's so beautiful, charming, and funny! 😊
Same. Re watching this older just appreciating it rather than comparing it hits different.
@@vianeyverde I know what you mean
After this film children started to wash their hands before meal more often, and cleaned their rooms, so funny😅
What a great positive influence 😆
The deer in this film was an experiment for the up-coming Bambi project. Watching Bambi shows you how much the animaters have grown in their abilities.
Thank goodness they went for that experiment ... And yes! They really did step it up 😃
Audiences had something called patience back then, they weren't suffering from attention deficit disorder. The smooth actions of Snow White and the Prince looked that way because of rotoscoping. That's the filming of human figures going through the motions then the animators would trace over them. These early movie-length cartoons were painstakingly rendered 1 cell at a time, no computers, no rolling & repeating backgrounds. I'm glad you noticed the moving clouds in the background and the ripples in the water, this was an enormous effort. It's still an effective film, my nieces when they were little (in their 20s now) were scared by the scene of Snow White running through the forest and laughed at the dwarves.
Another Disney film with a cleanup scene you need to react to if you haven't already seen it is "Mary Poppins". It's still one of my favorites and I'm over 60. The lead is stern and vain but caring too. The songs are ingrained in my memory.
Haha yes! I agree with you ... and I too wish more and more people would appreciate and give props to these amazing films that were made with so much love! Oh, and thank you so much for the recommendation, I've added it to the list 😊
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is Disney's masterpiece... there's so much to love about this perfect film. It's a simple fairy tale and yet it's timeless - it's got a great balance between purity, innocence and almost an unreal, angelic protagonist and probably the most terrifying (almost horror film quality) villain - I love that incredibly stark contrast - it makes the whole thing feel grander - they're not just human characters but they embody both angelic and satanic qualities. One of my favourite little facts is how they were inspired by Expressionist cinema/art for some of the scary scenes - so the scary forest sequence and the queen's transformation scene... just looking at the forest scene with Snow White screaming you can see how much it resembles the famous painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.
It's the scariest/darkest of Disney's early classics and it really feels like a horror film for most of the plot since the whole thing hangs on Snow White having to hide away from a monster... there's an adventure element kind of in that she goes on a journey and makes friends along the way but the whole thing is framed like a monster film in which she simply has to run away and survive - I think that's a cool element people who saw it years as ago as a kid can forget and they just remember a very simple fairy tale and happy ending. Yes it has those elements but for all its simplicity it really goes to town on the dark, nightmarish quality for a classic fairy tale. To me, it's one of the best for that reason.
I love your structural analysis of the story - it's interesting - the whole plot is true to a normal 3 Act Structure - we just spend more time than usual in what is called the "Fun & Games" part of Act II where the hero and B Story friend characters are bonding. What's also most interesting is that the story climax is her biting the apple and it happens at about the 90% mark in the story - in this way it is framed like a tragedy. Normally the hero's greatest loss happens right around 75% mark, they recover and learn their lesson before the great finale. However, in this story Snow White in fact suffers right around the same time a hero triumphs. So the film ultimately goes into its final few minutes like a tragedy - and it makes sense - the tragedy isn't that she bit the apple - there's something to be said about the tragedy of human innocence - she represents the inner child (the goodness) in all of us - that remains in her throughout the story and she never loses it - however that innocence also brings with it naivity. So the tragedy in the deeper message is that pure, good hearted innocent people in this world also can suffer for it - the story tells children and adults to keep that goodness and kindness but also be aware that the world will challenge it and try to take advantage of you for it.
So yes the 'death' scene at the 90% basically makes the whole story feel like a deeper tragedy about the inevitable death of human purity that happens to a lot of people in life. And the prince's arrival could be seen as either a literal happy ending or also as a symbolic poetic justice/reward from the great beyond for her having lived a good life.
I think of it as a literal happy ending - but I think the symbolism rings true - to me it represents the idea that for those of us who live good lives, we surpass death - and if we gave love to others in life it comes back around to us - because she looked after the dwarves they don't bury her (which saves her) and because she had a connection with the prince in the start, he also comes back for her. All the people she showed love to remember that and come to collect her and take her on to a perfect kingdom in the clouds. Again, Disney could have just gone with a literal castle but the way it's told as a kingdom in the clouds after she's risen from "death" just adds this whole other powerful meaning... it's like her soul/her spirit being taken on to the great beyond with her soul mate. It's just so perfectly done.
Great reaction!
WOW! SAMUEL! I HAVE TO THANK YOU, SIR! This is a wonderfully written piece ... to which I'm almost shaking my head in agreement at every line! Couldn't have said it better my friend, this film is beyond a Masterpiece ... it's PURE CINEMA! 😊
@@latenightswithsammy Thank you Sammy. I loved your reaction and will check out all your others right now!
The animation from 1937 still looks pretty great.
yes, Yes & YES! So amazing!
The scenes of Snow White running through the dark forests is brilliantly scary imagery as this could be Snow White hallucinating that the trees are alive caused by the shock of being almost murdered by the Huntsman. I liked the transition that the eyes of the trees are actually the eyes of the cute little woodland animals.
The Queen's transformation is good too as it brings to mind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I know that many people found it scary but I always found her disguise as the old hag a little cartoony especially her large eyes which always reminded me of Marty Feldman as I-gor in Young Frankenstein lol
Jonathan - you just brought up one of my favorite scenes! That dark forest was so brilliant - scary/moody/imaginative/yucky/terrifying and downright coooooool! I love how everything was animated to look like a monster ... so effective! I guess too that the old Hag does have quite a bit of exaggerated proportions ... but if I'm being honest, I would have been terrified to see her and what she did to Snow White as a young boy 😅
@@latenightswithsammy I probably would be the same if I saw the old hag in real life as a kid.
I remember that the Disney parks used to have a ride called Snow White's Scary Adventures which mainly had all the scary parts of the movie including the old hag and of course, the dark forest. I was lucky enough to go on this ride at Disneyworld when I went on holiday at Florida years ago before it closed down to make way for the expansion of Fantasyland.
@@Spindler2007 WOW!!!! That sounds like an amazing ride! I'm trying to picture what it would be like, and also doing it as a child ... awesome! Thank you for sharing this memory :)
@@latenightswithsammy No problem. Luckily, there are many videos of the ride from all disney parks here on RUclips. There's even an evolution video of the ride as well. 😀
Love this movie. Such a classic.
Disney was just the best in its day.
It’s kind of changed since Walt Disney died. 🥺
YES! This definitely ranks among Disney's best, under the care of the best - Walt Disney
@@latenightswithsammy
Exactly
Walt Disney left us way too soon (he was only 65). 😞
Can you imagine what else he would have accomplished had he lived longer?
R.I.P Walt Disney 🥺😢
12/05/1901 - 12/15/1966
YES! He is due soo much praise and admiration! He was a major pioneer and visionary ... could only imagine what other projects would have come out under his supervision ... he is missed
Grumpy is always my favorite. He has a big heart he just doesn’t like to show it.
HE does, doesn't he! So loyal and protective ... I love particularly when she kisses him (on the head), and he smiles 😊
I loved when the dwarfs were discussing where to sleep, Dopey already staked his claim on the bench-Perhaps he's not so 'dopey' after all!
😆 - good point!
One evening in 1934, Walt Disney got up on a recording stage in front of an assembled group of his animators. Over the course of about four hours, he went through the story of Snow White-the fairytale princess who earns the hatred of her stepmother, the Evil Queen, and finds refuge with seven dwarves who live in a forest.
Disney acted out the tale with his trademark enthusiasm before delivering a final, startling piece of news: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs would be a feature-length movie. This wouldn’t just be a first for the studio-which had spent the past few years making a string of highly successful shorts-it would be the first animated feature film in the world. Simply put, nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
Nevertheless, the belief Walt Disney showed in his 1934 presentation proved to be infectious. Although initially taken aback by the thought of drawing an 80-minute film to life, the animators were beguiled by Disney’s idea. “He was doing something no other studio had ever attempted,” art director Ken Anderson later said, “but his excitement over Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs inspired us all.”
“It took guts to do what Walt did,” agreed animator Ollie Johnston. “The story is based on the idea that the Queen is going to murder this girl. That’s one drawing killing another drawing. Walt convinced us that this could be done so that it would be believable, and we all believed him.”
The rest of the Hollywood film industry remained skeptical. When word got out that Walt was working on an animated feature, it was widely, and smirkingly, described as “Disney’s Folly.” For Walt Disney, branching out into features may have been risky, but it was also an important progression. The studio’s short films had continued to push technical boundaries and win awards-the Silly Symphony piece, The Three Little Pigs, won an Oscar in 1934-but the cost of making them was rising. The use of short films as ‘filler’ was also beginning to fall out of favor in theaters with double features taking their place.
All this led Walt to start thinking about taking the leap into features. After a few false starts, such as when proposed adaptations of Alice In Wonderland and Rip Van Winkle were considered, Disney pushed ahead with Snow White. The major question was whether audiences would pay to see almost 90 minutes of animation, with not a real human being in sight?
“It was prophesied that nobody would sit through such a thing,” Disney later said. “But there was only one way we could do it successfully and that was to plunge ahead and go for broke: shoot the works. There could be no compromising on money, talent or time […] and this was at a time when the whole country was in the midst of a crippling depression.”
“We had a little money rolling in,” Walt said, “but not enough to finance such a big deal. Our assets were pretty impressive though-we had our studio and a backlog of marketable pictures-so we could get credit backing.” This meant that Disney was literally betting everything, including his own house, on Snow White being a success. If Snow White sank, the studio would be pulled down with it.
More worryingly still, the experimental nature of Snow White made predicting its budget extremely difficult. Although the project would use many of the innovations introduced in Disney’s short films, such as the pioneering multiplane camera, which gave a sense of depth to a 2D image, Walt wanted to bring a more realistic style to the movie.
“I had brought in specialists to help with our composition and our use of color, but we still had a fight on our hands for better animation,” Disney told his daughter Diane, whose account was published in a 1956 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. “The kind of animation we were after was entirely new. Before that, it had been done by stunts: limber legs moving in trick runs like egg beaters. But in Snow White, we wanted our action believable. We were after drama and pathos as well as laughter. You can’t pull a tear from an audience with legs whirling like windmills.”
To this end, Disney’s animators practiced life drawing, and spent hours, not to mention thousands of drawings, coming up with the look and movement of their characters. Footage from the period shows Disney’s artists studying how a long, flowing beard might move at the shake of a head, or how cloth billowed in the breeze.
“The first thing I did when I got a little money to experiment,” Walt explained, “I put all my artists back in school. We were dealing in motion, movement, the flow of movement. Action, reaction. So we had to set up our own school.”
A BEAUTIFUL story about taking risks, and it paid off ... 😊 ... it's no wonder that Disney are at the top of their game compared to the rest ... beautiful leadership and vision!
@@latenightswithsammy Nya, It's a good story but not exactly completely accurate. You see, before "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" there were ten other animated feature films in the world. In fact, one of them was a test film made by Walt Disney studios to check the reaction of the North American public.
Most people don't count it among Disney classics because it's a test film but technically speaking "Academy award review of Walt Disney cartoons" was the first Disney feature film.
For many years it was believed that "El apóstol" (The Apostle) (1917) by Qurino Cristiani was the first animated feature film in history but now there is evidence of the existence of an older film, "Creation" (1915) made by none other than Pinto Colvig , the man who voiced Goofy.
"Creation" is a mysterious film about which there is hardly any information. Only one ad and four frames have been discovered so far. Pinto Colvig himself seems to be one of the characters, There is not even confirmation on the plot but my theory based on the preserved images is that the story is about Colvig entering a cartoon world and helping the other characters or about Colvig doing an animated short and the characters coming to life and escaping into the real world. There is more information about "The Apostle", images, stills, descriptions of people who saw it in the cinema, newspaper reviews and even a documentary in which we can see Quirino working on it, which includes a brief scene to increase the hype for the premiere. The plot follows the adventures of Hipólito Yrigoyen, a real Argentine politician, who sneaks into Olympus and steals the powers of the gods with the intention of using them to end the corruption of Buenos Aires. Unfortunately each of his attempts ends in disaster and he finally ends up destroying Argentina first and the whole world later. Yes, as strange as it may seem, the first animated film with a confirmed plot is a political satire mixed with adventures.
Quirino was the first person in the world to establish a continuous production of animated feature films, but unfortunately his other feature films are also lost. "Sin dejar rastros" (Without leaving a trace) (1918) mixes satire with adventure again. It is about the German commander Baron Von Luxburg who sinks an Argentine ship and tries to frame the Entente for the act, with the intention that Argentina goes to war with all the countries that are part of it. The intervention of the survivors at the last second manages to avoid it. "Peludópolis" (1931) again has the politician Hipólito as the protagonist. This time taking the role of a pirate and with his ship Peludópolis and his crew he tries to find the island of Cheeseland and confronts Pelado, another politician in the role of a pirate who wants to steal his ship.
Another South American animated film that is believed lost (although there is a chance that a copy will appear at some point) is "Vida y milagros of Don Fausto" (Life and Miracles of Don Fausto) (1924) by Carlos Espejo and Carlos F. Borcosque, a comedy that adapted the comic " Bringing up father" and in which the character live a lot of adventures during a trip to Chile.
I know It's sad to hear about all these lost movies, but luckily there are others that have had better luck. The oldest of these is "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926) by Lotte Reiniger, based on several "One Thousand and One Nights" stories.
Another one is "The tale of the fox" (1930) by Ladislas Starevich which adapts the medieval stories of Renard the fox. Renard is an anti-hero used to tricking and taking advantage of the other animals in the kingdom. The king, tired of listening to complaints from his subjects, gives the order to catch him and that triggers the whole adventure.
Aleksandr Ptushko's "The new Gulliver" (1935), which combines live action with animation, is another adaptation of a classic, as you might imagine "Gulliver's travels".
"The Seven Ravens" (1937) by Ferdinand and Herman Diehl adapts, like Disney, is an adaptation of a Grimm brothers story.
If you have the opportunity, take a look at all of them. They are really good and It's quite a journey. All these people were experimenting with all kinds of animation techniques and story treatments. All of them were pioneers discovering their own way of making an animated feature film without relying on what others had done. This makes the movies unique and amazing. None of this movies will remind you of the Disney style for more than obvious reasons.
It's so interesting to see animated feature films that predate the Disney boom. It's peeking into a world of possibilities. If one this other production companies had been imposed instead of Disney the animation industry would have developed in a completely different way.
Snow White is kind of the template for how Disney Cast Members at the Parks interact with guests, no matter what range of mood the guests are in. Having been in the Disney College Program, I can attest to this.
Edit: Also Snow White is 14 years old in the film. The youngest of all the princesses in their respective stories.
I love your Disney 'credentials' 😆 Thank you so much for sharing this!
Snow White remains one of the most influential movies of all time. Of any genre, not just animated. When it came out in 1937, audiences immediately fell in love with it. What critics initially derived as "Disney's Folly" soon became a smash hit at the box office, earning the equivalent of $600 million.
WOW ... what a way to show the industry that Disney is a heavy contender that means business 😆 I'm so happy it did well; it's such a beautiful film after all.
@@latenightswithsammy Everything about Snow White is perfection. The rich animation, memorable characters, catchy songs, and the raw emotion all make it a masterpiece.
@@joshuariddensdale2126 Agreed! What a treasure piece ...
Notice that when Snow White is guessing the dwarfs' names according to their physical or behavioral traits ("Sneezy", "Bashful", "Grumpy", etc.), one of the other dwarfs identifies "Dopey." It would've been against Snow White's kind nature to make such a guess herself.
Ohh nice ... I wonder now what she would have named him ☺️
fun fact: the Prince would have a bigger role, but most of his scenes were cut because of budget limitations
(you remember when the Queen asks a skeleton if it's thirsty? originally, it would have the Prince in there instead)
That's strange and understandable ... After all, it's not his story 😁
Your reaction to this movie is by far the best I've ever seen! You really understood all the messages protrayed in it, and it made me so happy since Snow White is one of my favourite Disney movies :)
Thank you for this! Hard not to enjoy such an adorable picture :)
The first feature length animated movie! No one thought it was possible
Snow White was my favorite movie as a kid, and it is still one of my all time favorite movies.
You have great taste in films, Megan! This film is worthy of so much praise and adoration 😊
Since you watched Disney’s first animated feature film, you should also watch the last one Walt Disney himself produced before he died, The Jungle Book (1967). Just a disclaimer though, it ignores the original book almost completely; Walt felt the book’s story was too dark and heavily detailed for the kind of movies he was used to making, so he made his own story with the same characters.
Ahhh ... sweet! Since the film was Walt Disney's last ... I think it'll be awesome to watch this with respect to him / Memoriam ... December 15. Thank you so much, Joe, for the wonderful recommendation and insight 😊
Snow white's voice actor died in 1997
But some years before she said to a girl who was asking her to sing the song of the movie
And her voice even if she was old was such an angelic voice
Then cinderella's voice actor died in 2010
And at first she wanted to be a teacher but then she decides to do cinderella's voice actor
Then aurora's voice actor really loved the song she was singing in 1959
And she is still alive now she is 93
And there was a movie with all the disney princesses that was out in 2018
And their voice actors was their real voice actors
Except for snow white and Cinderella's because they passed away
And except for aurora's because she now wants to live her last days in peace
Thank you so much for sharing this! 😆
It always surprises me how some people forget and others don’t know that Snow White, was/is Walt Disneys first princess and first feature long movie in color.
And Snow White is 11-12 years old
- that just goes to show how advanced they were! Brilliant stuff ...
- really?!? That's wild!
14, according to Word of God. But the Grimm brothers' version has her as only 7!
30:42 kids can handle so much more than you think. When i watched this i was 6, i enjoyed every moment of the film, i always liked it, i never got scared, its not like i thought it was real
(locks up gems in vault, locks vault with key, and then hangs KEY ON VAULT DOOR)
I honestly LMAO over that scene when I rewatched it for the first time as an adult. It caught me completely by surprise. If you want a real Disney shared universe, then the series "Once Upon A Time" should be on your list. Maybe you can react to it.
In the original fairytale, it was seven MINERS and no mention if they were dwarves or not. The Evil Queen lives, sort of. After being captured, red hot iron shoes are put on her feet and she was forced to dance until she died.
🤣 - I share that laugh with you my friend! Fantastic! Excited to add more great recommendations to the list, thank you so much 🙂
I think "Once Upon A Time" is on Hulu.
It started slow, got really good, and then in later seasons it got really dumb. It got so bad that I stopped watching it before it officially ended. The characters kept making the same stupid mistakes they made at the start of the show just to stretch out the seasons.
Oh, I see, so which seasons would you recommend?
Season 5 and 6 is where the terrible writing starts to kick in, but it completes the story that the show started. I only suggest you skip season 7 entirely.
Gotcha! Looking forward to checking it out 😊
5:26 The only thing that triggers me about this movie is that this is actually the biggest age gap in a princess disney movie. Prince Florian here is actually 37 while Snow White is 14... 😩✋
To be fair, none of their ages are confirmed by Disney, I ship it
It seems like online articles have her age pinned down ... where could they have found that fact? Or is it speculation?
Interesting ... I love how Disney portrays these young women as independent, strong-willed, caring and beautiful (and so much more)
I can believe Snow White is only 14, but I see no evidence in the film that the Prince is 37 or that his name is Florian. He looks a lot younger than that to me, maybe even as young as 18.
The scene where the queen turns into the witch was my favorite when I was a child, specially her hair turning white!
It is EPIC! I love the close-up on her hands too! The lengths the Queen went through to kill Snow White ... she became an old hag ... that's dedication right there 😆
I think the Queen's death is one of the scariest. She falled off a cliff AND got crushed by a giant rock. That's horrible O-O Gaston too plus i'm sure he drowned after falling off the castle's roof. Damn that's brutal!
Tell me about it! What a way to die 😱
@@latenightswithsammyher death is worse in the original tale
If I had to guess. I would Guess Snow White to be very young. Since she scared herself in the forest when it was dark. But then there are times when she seems quite grown up. Although now that I'm older I feel that it was more like a girl "Playing House." Cooking and cleaning and being sweet.
I know that she's one of the youngest Disney Princesses. 14 years old. although she feels much younger than that in some places.
I agree with you on the fact that she does seem young + old/mature at the same time ...
In fact, she's the youngest
Excellent reaction. I was lucky to see this on the big screen during a 70s re-release.
Thank you so much + WOW ... that's an experience of a lifetime! What a great film to watch on the BIG screen! Could only hope to one day watch it there too 😊
The movie was made from paintings and they used real makeup and Disney wanted the Prince to have more screen time but they had a hard time animating him that he's only seen in the beginning and when he kisses snow white. There is a video Making Of Snow White u should check it out
BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for sharing this Jessica ... I'll have to check out the 'Making of' now 😊
@@latenightswithsammy You’re welcome
Today it's been 85 years since the movie was released
What an amazing milestone! 😆
Snow White was the first full-length animated feature! Ever! People in the business thought Disney was crazy trying to make a full-length animated movie. He took a considerable risk to make it, and it changed the history of cinema. :)
Right on! The stories behind the making of this film is almost as brilliant, and awe-inspiring as the film itself. What a beautiful piece of cinema we have because of them ☺️
I'm pretty sure Snow Whites voice provider was 15 when she did this! And Snow White is 14
Wow, that's something!
The way that they were able to give layers to an animated film was because of something the studio created called the Multiplane Camera which was a camera at the top of a tall tower pointed down and there were be various layers which the panes of painted glass could be placed and altered going in different directions and the camera would shoot down to give the effect of multiple layers.
Truly amazing! Gotta love innovation 😆
Theres just something so beautiful about the old hand drawn animations that just cant be beaten. I remember being terrified by the scene in the forest when i was a kid. The story is just so charming and always makes me smile. Grumpy was always my favourite dwarf. He always reminded me of my gramps when he was pretending to be 'mean and moody'.🎉t makes me so sad to see what they are doing to the classics now.
When Snow White is making the pies for the dwarfs and putting their names on them, she puts the name Grumpy on his pie and is immediately startled by the witch’s appearance. I just recently thought that she was naming the pie for the one dwarf who didn’t like her when she first sees the witch.
I share your sentiments as well! It was so heart-warming to see that the first pie she was to bake ... was for the one who called her names/doubted her, / and showed attitude. When the Witch appeared interrupting this beautiful scene ... I sincerely wished no harm upon this sweet soul 😅
Man, I remember when I used to have a Snow White dress when I was little. My dad had told me stories about my dress. So basically, my mom bought it for me as a Halloween costume because I LOVED Snow White so much! Yes, I still do now that I’m 21 years old. Anyways, for the next couple of weeks or so, I wore my Snow White dress non stop. I wore it EVERYWHERE. I even slept & wet the bed while wearing it. Yes, I had to take it off before bathing. After a week or so, the dress eventually fell apart. The cape, sleeves & yellow part came off. I then learned that nobody can wear clothes like that for 3 weeks straight. It’s one of those lessons I’ll never forget. Lol the memories. 😆
Wow ... What a connection you have to this film 🙂 utterly precious! Thank you so much for sharing this .. I could only hope you'd have one to keep forever moving on 😁
Sammy, I'm sure somebody has already said this but you really need to see Enchanted with Amy Adams. It takes all these Disney Princess tropes and turns them on their head in a delightful way.
BRILLIANT! Thank you so much David for bringing that up 😊 I'll indefinitely add it to the list now!
I don't like it when they make fun of the tropes, because some people take it further than just a joke and use it as actual critisicm.
The motion capture in the animation was so human-like, it scared me at times by just how ridiculously amazing it was. There movements were so effortless for a film made in the 1930s. A masterpiece! Amazing reaction!!💚💙💜
It truly is! I'm amazed by all the detail, both in the foreground and back. I completely concur with your conclusion: MASTERPIECE! Oh, and thank you very much for the kind words 😊
This is the first full length animated film. Ever. The og. The one that started his career.
HAHA - Yup, the true OG! 😆
This was Disney's first animated movie and while it's not the first full-lenght animated movie ever (there have been two others but those have been lost), it is the first full-lenght cell-animated movie ever and the first commercially succesful one. It also made Hollywood more open to produce fantasy or fairy tale movies, it inspired MGM to make The Wizard of Oz.
I heard that the voice actors for Snow White & the prince were never given credit and weren't even invited to the opening premiere of the movie.
Wow ... that's pretty harsh, any clue as to why that happened?
@@latenightswithsammy I can't remember, unfortunately.
@@Shythalia No worries ... but that does seem like a weird incident ...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full length animated movie ever made. If it weren't for the grand success of this movie, all the others that followed wouldn't have appeared
YES! Most definitely paved the way for many more classics to follow. Glad I was able to check this one out 😊
100% !! I hope more and more people watch this beautiful film to see that even in the '30s there was beautiful storytelling and craftsmanship on display ... 😊
Aww this is my first video of yours. You seem like such a nice and positive person.
😊 thank you so much for writing in, and the words of support!
Ironically Walt Disney never mainly made his films for children, but to appeal to the Adults because in his own words "children have no money". :)
That's ... hilarious (and true)! I love that almost all these Disney Classics are equally relevant for both adults and children 😊
I usually dislike reaction channels, but I really dig yours! I subscribed after you saw The Wizard of Oz, my fave movie of all time. And not surprised you did this one, too! Saw it at Christmas time in good old 1984 at the mall with my Grandma. Sweet memory of my youth! Thanks for watching!
Hey David! Thank you so much for the kind words and support my friend ... it really means a lot 😊 And yes, those two films will forever me lodged into my brain ... just too good to forget 😆
aaaaaa tysm for this reaction 🥺🥺 your commentaries are always so interesting and fun!! If you like animated movies I think an interesting one for you to check out would be "Anastasia" (1997) (It's a FOX original but Disney later on bought FOX so now she belongs to disney!) The animation is pretty dope and absolutely one of my all time favs!
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! Its definitely regarding having such passionate fans of these Disney Classics like yourself that I get to be able to converse with 😊 OH, and thank you so much for the recommendation, I've officially added it onto the 'Fantasy Wednesday' list 😆
@@latenightswithsammy you are so welcome! I just love the thoughts you put onto these movies! I am a huge disney fan and seeing people appreciate also the classic ones makes my heart warm 🥺. Definitely one if not the best reactor to disney classics I have seen on youtube! People normally tend to just watch it through and then think about if they liked it or not but you really appreciate them so thank you for that!! ^^
Thank you * a million! I'm so appreciative that we can share this moment and enjoy a mutual connection with this film! Trust me when I say I was probably the last person to watch 'Disney Classics,' but ever since I did, I wouldn't turn back. It showered me with so much inspiration and downright appreciation for what came long before ... and it also connected me to an AMAZING community of Disney fans ... thank you for the support and kind words ... my heart has melted 😊
Great to see a young man watch an 85-year-old cartoon be not only impressed, but enjoying the content. I’m going to watch your review of Cinderella next. Appreciate your insights on this one.
Pure cinema is always timeless ☺️ thanks for writing in and checking out the content Mike!
I greatly appreciate your intelligent comments. There are a number of books that recall the production of SNOW WHITE and its challenges. The main credit for the structure has been confirmed consistently as being the direction of Walt Disney. There were several abandoned sequences that Walt felt unnecessary as they did not advance the story. One of them was a song sequence after the dwarfs wash up, where Snow White tries to teach them table etiquette, "The Music in Your Soup." Another was a bed-building sequence. There were other sequences storyboarded, showing the Prince imprisoned by the Queen. Because the Animators had enough difficulty in animating a convincing human male character, and because this sequence was off the line of the story, it was wisely discarded before going into production. There was a completed scene of the "Witch" hovering over the cauldron, exclaiming, "Boil, boil!" While elaborately and expensively produced, it was again wisely discarded. By the way, Snow White is about 14 years old. Such things existed in society in the Middle Ages since marriages were acceptable from puberty since people did not normally live as long as they do now. And it is worth realizing that children were raised to know how to do things to enter adult life, which began at age 13. When you look at some of the figures of history such as Joan of Arc, they accomplished great things while still in their teens. or early 20s.
There were many more people involved with the production that time did not allow for screen credits, as it took 100s of people working on many intricate details to reach this achievement. Money was getting scarce, and Disney had mortgaged the studio to The Bank of America in order to get the finishing funds. Originally estimated at $250,000, the final cost was $1.8 Million. Disney's assets of $600,000 were already spent, and the obviously needed another $1,200,000. It grossed over $9,000,000. And because money was so tight, many people worked without pay for the sake of what they were working on because they saw its greatness. While there were stories about Disney promising bonuses afterward, that never happened. Instead, a new studio was built in Burbank, California, which exists today.
It's not Snow white's fault if she was too naive and got tricked by the Queen. She had no parents or education so it's normal that she trusted strangers. The poor girl was very unlucky, it's sad ;( Also she's 14 so Snow is still a kid. I'm glad she was saved by the dwarves.
It's a bit creepy that the Prince KISSED her when she was dead. Guess this guy found it normal to kiss a dead person, wheter she's beautiful or not. Ok X)
I agree with you 100%
Snow White was a kind person to every one ... no one told her not to trust strangers ... however, she's still a queen in my eyes 🥰
Oh, and yes, kinda creepy 🤣
@@latenightswithsammy But didn't the dwarves tell her that "the old queen's a sly one, so beware of strangers"? And Grumpy specifically told her, "I'm warnin' ya! Don't let nobody or nothin' in the house!" I know she's 14, and naturally, Queen Grimhilde wouldn't have taught her basic things like that, but she really should have listened when the dwarves warned her about stranger danger. That's something that we teach kids as young as two nowadays, and I've known many a parent (including my own mother) to use this movie as an object lesson to very small kids, to not scare them s*itless about the *actual* realities of stranger danger. Of course, the whole "poisoned apple/enchanted sleep thing gets updated later on as the kid grows up enough to understand *real* danger, but in my case, my mom waited until I was about 4 before telling me the cold hard facts: go off with a stranger, and you'll never see your family again. You'll be lucky if you live long enough to catch a last glimpse of the sun. By the time I was 4 and a half, she had enrolled me in self-defense class. If I were in Snow's shoes, at 14, I could probably have turned that poisoned fruit into applesauce, if I were even clueless enough to take it in the first place. But, to be fair, my mom used to work for the sheriff's office, so stranger danger was a huge deal in my house.
Hi Sammy! Can I leave a suggestion? I think you should react to Robin Hood (Disney). It`s kinda of a simple movie but it's as enjoyable as Peter Pan, and one of my favourite classics
Of course! Awesome! Now, would you be referring to the 1973 animated version?
@@latenightswithsammy yes I am
Awesome! It's on the list 😊
The Wizard Of Oz was released two years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I am just now wondering if the ‘Oz’ filmmakers were influenced by Snow White specifically saying goodbye to the dwarfs. Dorothy Gale gets an extremely touching moment saying goodbye to her Oz friends near the end of that movie. I truly don’t cry at movies, but I get a little emotional at each movie’s goodbye scenes.
I feel bad for Sneezy. If he sneezes, his brothers become agitated, but I just hope he remembers to keep his eyes shut when he sneezes. If they're open, he could blast his eyes out of his skull.
Good point! Sneezy by far had won me over ... he's such a charming character 😊
Snow white is confirmed 14 years old.
Let that sink in XD
WOW ... I'm curious, was it confirmed via a storybook? Or from the production / Walt Disney himself? 🤔
i found your channel a few days ago and i adore your reactions. 1) I love disney and 2) I love hearing someone talk about animation, don't get that a lot in the uk so I appreciate it. Keep up the amazing reactions, I have subscribed, can't wait for more also my favourite dwarf would be Dopey because that would be me haha
You are awesome! You've so made my day ☺️ thank you so much for the support + feedback ☺️ More Disney to come 😬
this is the first video of yours that I've stumbled upon and I already love your reactions, they're so in depth and you seem very appreciative of all the work that went into this movie, I love it :D
Thank you so much for this! It genuinely means a lot to me! Glad you're enjoying them 😊
There is no shared Disney universe. They just had a specific art style.
Gotcha! Do you think it would be cool to see one though? 😃
@@latenightswithsammy I do think it's cool to think that there might be a shared universe. Crossovers are always a fun idea.
@@Shythalia Yes indeed! What a magical moment it could be ...
Depends on what cannon you reference. OUAT says yes, as do the Serena Valentino books, and the Descendants series. But otherwise, it's only alluded to in Easter eggs throughout their animated films. (For example, you catch a glimpse of Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert and Rapunzel, post-haircut, at Elsa's coronation in Frozen, and you can briefly see Belle walking the streets of Paris in Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
Movie Odyssey Retrospective
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
On December 21, 1937, Hollywood’s stars and executives strode a blue carpet ushering them into a packed Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. The chilly night air typified expectations of the film premiering that evening. This was a premiere unlike any other, one for an animated feature film. During the silent film era and first decade of talkies, animated film evolved from simple gag drawings to endowing animated characters with personalities to character-driven short films heavy on slapstick (think Looney Tunes). For Walt Disney, supervising director David Hand, and the band of underpaid animators that they oversaw, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the first cel-animated feature film; the oldest-surviving animated feature is from 1926 and the first animated feature is now lost) was a statement of purpose - an artistic culmination stemming from the Mickey Mouse shorts and especially the Silly Symphony series. But on the night of the premiere, Walt, Hand, and the animators that were invited or purchased a ticket had no clue how the audience would receive their work. With a fortune invested in the movie’s production, “Disney’s Folly” was predicted to be financially ruinous.
The lights dimmed. The audience found themselves entranced by the opening shot of the Queen’s castle; they applauded the background art when no animation was on the screen; they laughed at the dwarfs’ antics and adored the childlike Snow White. Then came Snow White’s presumed death. As her body rested in a glass coffin and the dwarfs and woodland animals tended to her wake, Walt, Hand, and the animators looked around the theater in disbelief. The calculating Hollywood executives, the pampered actors, and the cynical journalists and film reviewers sniffed their noses, some openly weeping. “Love’s first kiss” be damned; the animators, Hand, and Walt had triumphed. Walt’s dream of making animated cinema as dramatically and emotionally impactful as any live-action film had been realized. Securing the studio’s future to the temporary relief of Roy O. Disney (who managed the studio’s finances so often overspent by Walt), Snow White began the most important and accomplished run of consecutive animated features in history. By the end of that run with Bambi (1942), seldom would any animated films in the decades that followed achieve that mix of dramatic and emotional power without condescending to its audience.
Sorry to dump all this info on you, but Snow White is monterously important to American Culture and to WOrld Cinema, This story shouldn't be forgotten, since Walt and his team of artists are some of my heroes to this day.
In the end of the vhs I saw, there was a bonus with the making off of the movie where we can see the first drawings of Snow-White (some look like Betty Boop) and we even see the guy who inspired Happy's dance during the song. I also remember it showed there was supposed to have a scene when the my eat
In the grimm story snow white is around 12 years old when her mother the queen wants her dead and the goes 3 times to the dwarfs home
That moment when you find out Snow White is 14 years old in the movie and the prince is 17 years older than her! 😬
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4:47 LOL I love how your mugshot fits the opening of the well there!
WOW .. I didn't even realize I did that! 😆
I have a few favorite dwarfs. Dopey, Doc, and Sneezy.
Yup! All solid picks! I genuinely love Happy too 😄
@@latenightswithsammy me, too.
Hi Sammy,
I just subscribed! ❤️ You seem to be a very kind and joyful person and this is the first movie reaction I'm watching from you. Very happy RUclips recommended you. ❤️
I love Disney movies so much, especially the older ones. They have a very sweet and unique charm!
Hey Sarah! Thank you so much for the kind words and support, you don't know how much they mean to me 😊 I'm so glad to be a part of a community that loves + adores these films! It melts my heart 🥰
whenever i see ppl reacting to the disney movies, i wish they would know how the original stories go. i grew up with my mom reading them to me and they are so much more cruel than the movies lol
Hah! That's actually one thing I might take up on for future episodes ... Reading the original material for the first time 😃
As I reached adulthood, if I ever saw this movie again, Doc's intro and question of "What are you, and who are you doing?" sounds like a simple mistake of the tongue, but now it turns my ears a shade of red I've never seen before. Post puberty, "who are you doing" has a whole other meaning. I always assumed Snow was a virginal beauty, with a heart as pure as the driven snow. I guess subconsciously, Doc did not agree with that one... Times like these, I start to regret having been a psychology major in college. It really screws with your mind to have a background in Psych and watch Disney at the same time.
3:27 If you think THIS is creepy, you should see the DVD menu version of this mask guy...😨
Ohh ... I'm going to check it out now 😆
Grumpy is my favorite dwarf.
He is awesome! So protective, smart, and logical - more than meets the eye on a general impression 😊
Late Nights with Sammy my thoughts exactly!
Since Once upon a Time concluded, there is a position available for the dwarf named Stealthy. Not stealthy enough, it seems, as he was caught and killed off by the Evil Queen(Regina)'s forces.
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if you want to know what happened with snowwhite....the movie '10th Kingdom' has the answer ;-)
Ohhh ... Interesting! Thank you so much for sharing this ☺️
I like this reaction video. I feel like I’m showing one of my buddies one of the movies from my childhood
Thanks so much for writing in Dustin 😊 It was very enjoyable!
react to the 1925 phantom of the opera starring Lon Chainey and Mary Philben
omg hes right pls react to the 1925 phantom pls its amazing
omg pls react to that amazing idea
pls react to that. great idea!!!
Awesome recommendation! Will be adding it to the 'must watch' list 😆
I think the vultures were supposed to foreshadow what was gonna happen next.
First, I thought it was the queen's vultures
I really think Snow White died at the end. When her prince finally comes, he takes her away and their castle appear on the clouds.
AHHHHH ... Erik, that's an amazing explanation. It all makes sense (the end frame) now! But ... how would the animals and the Seven Dwarfs have seen her if she was 🤔
@@latenightswithsammy well, idk, I guess in my theory that was her "heaven", it's the ideal version of a happy ending happening in her afterlife.
It's probably just in my head actually, but who knows? Disney always put hidden meanings in their movies
True ... but I ( *really* ) like your theory, it makes the ending that much more than just a regular 'happy' ending, it's bittersweet ... just like real life 😊
imagine watching snow white and saying "i didn't see that coming." lol. That's like not knowing the punchline to "why did the chicken cross the road?"
😂😂 - so true, but I also love that feeling! Nothing like being caught off guard ☺️
Without this beautiful beautiful movie we would not have the great animated movies we have today. Pixar wouldn't exist and studio ghibli wouldn't exist. It was all thanks to that 1 investor who gave Walt Disney the funding he desperately needed to make this happen. Kristen bell has no right to criticize this movie.
Love your reaction, I liked how you appreciated Sleeping Beauty before and now Snowwhite. Now you gotta watch Cinderella, I’m waiting for that!
Thank you so much, Federico, for the kind words 😊 Oh ... and that's a big YES! It'll be Cinderella for this week's 'Fantasy Wednesday' 😆
HOW am I just finding you!!!? This is such a great reaction!! I love it!
Thank you so much Ben ... your comment means a lot to me 😊
This is my favorite ever Disney animated movie.
It's so re-watchable / beautiful / charming / thoughtful ... and MORE! I commend your taste in film, Nick 😆
@@latenightswithsammy thank you!! I think the same of you. I am a new subscriber to your channel.
Thank you so much for the support, it means a lot 😊
@@latenightswithsammy you’re welcome!!
Love your reaction
Thank you for tuning in :)
Well it is the first Disney animated feature length film. Plus the actual Grimm fairytale is much darker. The blush work and the pigment mixtures was done all by the ladies in the studio. Disney actually copyrighted Snow White's voice.
Wow! Some great trivia there! 😊 Very interesting to know that someone's voice was copyrighted ...
I love this movie so much. Such a great one.
I can confirm it ... you have GREAT taste! 😊