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Bookmark this pageSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Director: David Hand
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Disney's first animated feature takes the Grimms' fairy-tale and turns it into a generally cute fantasy for American kids: Snow White herself might be felt to be almost unbearably winsome, and the anthropomorphic characterisation of the forest creatures soon becomes tiresome. But the animation itself is top-notch, and in a number of darker sequences (Snow White's terrified entry into the forest, for example), Disney's adoption of Expressionist visual devices makes for genuinely powerful drama. Ideologically, however, what remains most intersting, as one writer has noted, is the way Walt's obvious desire to promote the American Way (off to work we go, indeed!) is married - presumably unthinkingly - to a virtual celebration of polygamy in which, moreover, it is a woman, not a man, who lives with seven members of the opposite sex!Author: GA
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- Roy Llowarch said...
- Posted on Mar 07 2010 00:24 I loved this film both as a child and as an adult. it was one of my daughters favorites too and we would watch the video over and over again. Fantastic enjoyment from Disney.
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Cast & crew
Director: David Hand
Producer: Walt Disney
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucile La Verne, Moroni Olsen full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 83 mins
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