قصص Snow White (Snow White And The Seven Dwarves)

Snow White






The First of Many


The beautiful, sweet Disney princess Snow White of Disney's Snow
White and the Seven Dwarves, was the very first feature length animated
film ever created. It premiered in Hollywood at a theater called the
Carthay Circle Theater on December 21st in 1937. Snow White is
officially the first Disney princess and she set a high standard for all
the rest to come.

The Depression Era


The 1930s in the United States were not an easy time. There was an
economic depression, which means that many people who had jobs and money
before had none. There was no extra money for ‘the pictures', as movies
were called. Disney short cartoons with music and dialogue not spoken
but written for the audience to read off the screen in between the
cartoon images were still a huge hit.
Making a full length feature cartoon when it had never been done
before and for a country full of people with so little hope (or money)
in between World Wars I and II, was an act of bravery by Walt Disney.
And it worked! America fell in love with Snow White and Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves was a huge success.





Big Money Spent



Disney spent $1.4 million – a huge sum of money in and of itself
but adjusted for today's value of dollars that amount would equal
roughly $80 million! That's was a huge bet for the young Walt Disney.
Lucky for us it paid off.

Big Money Earned


Walt Disney certainly won back his investment and did so many times
over. His Snow White and the Seven Dwarves made more money than any
film before it and held the title of highest grossing (or highest
earning) film of all time until Gone With the Wind came out. The first
time Snow White bit the apple on big screens across the country, she
earned Walt Disney $8.5 million! This amount would equal hundreds of
millions of dollars today!




No Short Adventure


Snow White was not a princess who appeared overnight. She was born
from a fairy tale hundreds of years old with as many different versions
as there are cultures to tell it. Walt Disney himself first got the idea
for a full length animated version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
when he saw the fairy tale on screen as a silent film.
Once Walt Disney chose Snow White as the first princess whose story
he would produce, he took his time and made sure to do it right. Three
years and 750 animators, artists, producers, advisers, editors,
colorists, singers, songwriters, musicians, actors, designers, and
writers later, Snow White made her debut in Hollywood.

A Special Award



In 1939, when Oscar time rolled around, Disney's Snow White and the
Seven Dwarves received an award that has not since been replicated or
repeated. At the Academy Award ceremony, Walt Disney was given a full
sized Oscar statuette as all winners received – as well as seven dwarf
sized Oscar statues. Shirley Temple, a child star famous worldwide
(probably chosen due to the nature of the film and her short, dwarf like
stature, as well) presented Walt Disney with his Academy Award.