Disney has a new live-action version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” hitting theaters.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just any film they’re remaking. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the first full-length animated feature ever made, created by Walt Disney himself. Before that, animation was just a series of short amusing—little skits such as “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,” “Silly Symphony,” and, of course, later, “Mickey Mouse”—but Walt had a bigger vision.
He saw a silent film adaptation of the classic Grimm Brothers fairy tale and thought, ‘This story about beauty, jealousy, good, and evil would be the perfect foundation for my leap into feature films.’ It was a bold, ambitious move, to say the least. So ambitious, in fact, that people actually called Walt’s idea of making Snow White into a feature film “Disney’s Folly.”
They were convinced that no one would sit through a full-length feature cartoon. But Walt Disney had the last laugh, didn’t he? “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was a global phenomenon, and it was a springboard for everything we now associate with the Disney name.
I grew up loving all things Disney, like many of my generation. I’m a baby boomer. I watched “The Mickey Mouse Club” and later the “Wonderful World of Color.” We sat glued to the screen as “Uncle Walt,” as he was sometimes called, unveiled his plans for this new amusement park that he was going to call “Disneyland.” My love for Disney animation stuck with me. So much so that I became a cartoonist myself, eventually producing my own animated shorts with my characters “Ben Born Again” and “Yellow Dog.” […]
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