Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Behold… the birth of a new form of entertainment. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves proved to the world that animation could see so much more than amusing shorts. The film follows the classic fairy tale of Snow White and her jealous stepmother and not only saved Walt Disney Productions from bankruptcy but paved the way for all animated films to follow. Not bad for a film everybody predicted was going to be “Disney’s Folly.”

Production

Directed by David Hand (supervising), William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen

Produced by Walt Disney

Written by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith

Based on Snow White by The Brothers Grimm

Starring Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Scotty Mattraw, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Collins, Moroni Olsen, Stuart Buchanan

Music by Frank Churchill, Paul Smith, Leigh Harline

Production company: Walt Disney Productions

Distribution and Stats

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release date: December 21, 1937 (Carthay Circle Theatre), February 4, 1938 (United States)

Running time: 83 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Budget: $1.49 million

Box office: $418 million