Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Release date 21st December 1937
Country :  USA
Running time : 83 mins
Genre : Animation
Screenplay by Ted Sears and Richard Creedon

 

In the fall of 1934 Disney assembled his animation staff and announced that the studio would bring Snow White to the screen, then spent the next hour demonstrating the entire story.

He projected a budget of $500,000, an estimate that reportedly caused his money-conscious brother, Roy, to exclaim that the movie was going to ruin them. Walt considered Deanna Durbin to voice Snow White but he thought her singing sounded too mature and chose twenty-year-old Adriana Caselotti.

The animation cels used in short cartoons proved too small to accommodate Snow White, and in order to create depth of field, they employed the multiplane camera, an animation camera first used on the highly acclaimed short The Old Mill. It used seven tiers which gave a three-dimensional quality to the picture. 

With the film still incomplete,the production found itself in need of another $500,000 to finish.An extremely rough cut was screened to the backers with Disney ad libbing narration to link the sequences. Fred Moore, an animator sitting in on the session, later recalled: "It was just too brilliant for words! Walt had never been so good, so eloquent. He played every single role in the movie, and each one was worth an Oscar. Even Roy, who was a tough nut to crack, had tears running down his cheeks" (Leonard Mosley, Walt Disney's World).