December 21, 1937 (Carthay Circle Theatre)
February 4, 1938 (United States)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the production was supervised by David Hand, and was directed by a team of sequence directors, including Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben Sharpsteen. It is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first cel animated feature film.
Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1937, and went into general release in the United States on February 4, 1938. Despite initial doubts from the film industry, it was a critical and commercial success, with international earnings of more than $8 million during its initial release against a $1.5 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1938 and briefly held the record of the highest-grossing sound film of all time. It was also the highest-grossing animated film for 55 years. The popularity of the film has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top-ten performers at the North American box office and is still the highest-grossing animated film. Worldwide, its inflation-adjusted earnings top the animation list.
Snow White was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938, and the next year, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film. This award was unique, consisting of one normal-sized, plus seven miniature Oscar statuettes. They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple.
Its prototypical animated feature and use of fairy tale adaptations as well as technical innovation became a major milestone of the early animation industry, Snow White is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made and creating the new form of the golden age of animation; Disney's take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural effect, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, a Broadway musical, and an upcoming live-action film.
In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008.
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- Disney Gulp Sound 3
- Dopey Cry (debut)
- Dwarfs Snoring (debut)
- Frankenstein Castle Thunder (Heard briefly.)
- Grumpy Cry (debut)
- Hollywoodedge, Hiccups Wa Horse Lik CRT026201 (Debut)
- Hollywoodedge, Hollowbomp Impact CRT030401
- Hollywoodedge, Man Sneezes Whuge Bu CRT026102 (Used for Sneezy.)
- Hollywoodedge, Man Snoring Wbig Sno CRT024901 (Debut)
- Hollywoodedge, Man Snoring Wlong Me CRT025301 (Debut)
- Hollywoodedge, Manual Water Pump Up CRT057204
- Hollywoodedge, Short Bulb Horn Honk CRT020701
- Hollywoodedge, Single Frog Croak Cl CRT013001
- Hollywoodedge, Woman Screams LongP CRT028202 (Debut)
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER ROLL AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 02 (Intl.)
- Sound Ideas, Weather - Thunderclap . . . 4 times
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP WHISTLE ZIP (Debut; heard once in a double low pitch during the song "Heigh Ho")