Snow White (1937)
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Walt Disney).
Nitrate frame collection.
Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photographs of the frames by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Basten, Fred E. (1980): Glorious Technicolor. The Movies’ Magic Rainbow. South Brunswick: Barnes, on p. 88. View Quote
Anonymous (1938): The Shadow Stage. A Review of the New Pictures. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In: Photoplay, LII,4, Apr., p. 55. View Quote
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Evans, Delight (1938): Reviews of the Best Pictures by Delight Evans. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In: Screenland, XXXVI,5, Mar., p. 52. View Quote
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Nugent, Frank S. (1938): The Screen in Review. The Music Hall Presents Walt Disney’s Delightful Fantasy, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Other New Films at Capitol and Criterion. In: The New York Times, 14 January 1938, p. 21. View Quote
Production Reports:
Baskette, Kirtley (1938): The Amazing Inside Story of How They Made Snow White. In: Photoplay, LII,4, Apr., p. 23, p. 68 and p. 70, on p. 70. View Quote
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Selected Analyses:
Bellantoni, Patti (2005): If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die. The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling. Taylor & Francis, on pp. 173–174. View Quote