What It Was Really Like To See Snow White In 1938

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024

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  • @GrungeHQ
    @GrungeHQ  2 роки тому +5

    What was the most exciting opening weekend you've attended for a movie?

    • @deathmagnetic12085
      @deathmagnetic12085 2 роки тому

      Biggest movie opening for me. Uh Avrngers: endgame. Almost all the tickets were sold out for every showing. Luckily I was able to secure 2 tickets for my nephew and I.

  • @christiancisneros4412
    @christiancisneros4412 2 роки тому +43

    The first audience to see the completed movie was made up of the children of people who worked at Disney Studios. My mother was one of them. She is still alive and remembers it well. Her father was originally responsible for keeping the studio air conditioning from failing. He installed it himself. It was a new technology at the time and Disney had it installed because the heat in Burbank would dry up the paints used by the animators. My grandfather was the man who came up with the idea of placing musicians in separate cubicles with individual microphones for the multi-track Fantasia. This is still in use today. My mom remembers that Walt wore a bug white apron and a chef's toque. He scooped up ice cream for the kids.

  • @gedigi9010
    @gedigi9010 2 роки тому +5

    Snow White is a masterpiece

  • @lifesgood9528
    @lifesgood9528 2 роки тому +8

    Such a classic story and movie. It will always be one of my many faves. Mr Disney truly did what he was born to do 🌏

  • @shannonnewman3091
    @shannonnewman3091 2 роки тому +8

    My Mom said it was Grate ! she told me a few times . It was One of the Best Time of her Life , I know this due to How she would tell me the store of Seeing Snow White.

  • @lesliefitzgerald2354
    @lesliefitzgerald2354 2 роки тому +2

    Loved it, thanks for cheering me up ! :)

  • @deathmagnetic12085
    @deathmagnetic12085 2 роки тому +28

    It still amazes me that Walt Disney studios was built on making cartoons such as snow white, and others like the jungle book(my personal favorite), and now Disney is now the biggest movie studio in the world. Disney owns almost everything. I'm sure walt could have never imaged that the company he founded would own Marvel studios, Pixar, Lucas films and 21st century fox.

    • @inside1283
      @inside1283 2 роки тому +1

      I don’t think any of them existed back then, so yeah probably not

    • @jaybee9269
      @jaybee9269 2 роки тому +1

      Boycott Disney groomers!

    • @viviennemorgan7217
      @viviennemorgan7217 Рік тому +1

      i think pixar started in the 90's.

    • @deathmagnetic12085
      @deathmagnetic12085 Рік тому +1

      @@viviennemorgan7217 I'm not talking Pixar. Pixar is the evolution of animation. Rather than drawing dozens of animation sequences. Everything has turned digital.

    • @deathmagnetic12085
      @deathmagnetic12085 Рік тому +1

      @@viviennemorgan7217 yes, you're right. But they're owned by disney. When they became a company is irrelevant.

  • @jaybee9269
    @jaybee9269 2 роки тому +3

    2:03 Can I just say Charlie Chaplin was a hell of a handsome man?

  • @ianelley
    @ianelley 2 роки тому +14

    My dad always said the film gave him nightmares ! He found the bits with the wicked step mother terrifying ! He was only 6 or 7 at the time !!

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому +2

      I believe the scene of the queen's transformation was cut outright from some European releases of the movie. Could you imagine the reaction, or even revulsion, if the Snow White character herself witnessed that transformation first-hand?!

    • @ianelley
      @ianelley Рік тому

      @@FischerFan Indeed!!

  • @arnepianocanada
    @arnepianocanada Рік тому +1

    👌Super voice; articulate speech; just.the.facts delivery (to US, not only the camera); respectful, honest presence. I've seen your work before this, and expect a brilliant future for you in hosting👏

  • @albertdehn8381
    @albertdehn8381 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing 👍😀

  • @rcruz4510
    @rcruz4510 2 роки тому +12

    The witch scared many kids into wetting their pants, so theater owners complained about having to clean the theater seats. The voice of the Queen/Witch was Lucille Laverne (1872-1945); her most prominent role - or the role that most people would most likely have seen - is as "Ma Magdalena" in "Little Ceasar" (1931) - although she is not listed in the cast.

    • @ywee3980
      @ywee3980 Рік тому +2

      In the Netherlands Snow White was rated children above the age of 14 because it was too scary. Later, after some scenes were cut it was rated for all ages.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 2 роки тому +2

    Seems to me I read somewhere that Marlene Dietrich commented about the movie how "...cutsie-poo and doodle-doo..!" it was!

  • @LadySilence
    @LadySilence 2 роки тому +4

    Informative.
    Would love to see this for other Disney releases

  • @lianefehrle9921
    @lianefehrle9921 2 роки тому +2

    Very informative

  • @sammylane21
    @sammylane21 2 роки тому +2

    Of course Chaplain would love "Dopy" that Dwarf is most like his "Tramp" character.

  • @DarlingKnight
    @DarlingKnight 2 роки тому +1

    Nicely done video. But maybe decide for another background music next time? It is pretty distractive

  • @rongendron8705
    @rongendron8705 2 роки тому +4

    "Snow White" was great, but it's hard to understand why patrons would pay $5.00 for what
    was essentially an elongated cartoon, when a year later, they were only willing to pay $2.50 to
    see "Gone with the Wind"! Even after "GWTW's" initial run, they had to lower the price to $.75,
    for average American movie houses, to fill theaters! $5.00 was a day's pay, then!

    • @amr4211
      @amr4211 Рік тому +1

      By Wed. April 27, 1938 ticket prices had dropped. In Whittier, Ca at Whittier Theatre a matinee performance with a center left orchestra seat cost 55¢ for an adult, 55¢ for a student’s matinee seat, and $1.10 for an adult matinee center orchestra seat. There are extant tickets for that performance. I’m not sure when prices started to go down though.

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому +1

      Any word on the admission charge for The Wizard of Oz, which was also released in 1939?
      Snow White probably charged more because it was a unique project for its time. It represented a shake of the dice by Disney.

  • @crimony3054
    @crimony3054 2 роки тому +1

    Somehow "Snow" does not sound like the correct shortened version of "Snow White." Likewise, while "the Seven Dwarfs" refers to the work's title, referring to the dwarves as "the dwarfs" sounds ungrammatical.

  • @danwindler9400
    @danwindler9400 Рік тому +1

    Can you do a video on what it was really like to see The Goonies in 1985?

  • @RavenNl403
    @RavenNl403 2 роки тому +3

    I never have watched this but, okay

  • @TeighMart
    @TeighMart 2 роки тому

    Is this guy the same guy behind A Dose of Buckley?

  • @viviennemorgan7217
    @viviennemorgan7217 Рік тому

    my grandmother was born in the 30's.

  • @chgem.2658
    @chgem.2658 Рік тому +1

    Disney should rerelease the old european dunbings.

  • @michaelscriver5395
    @michaelscriver5395 2 роки тому +2

    I wonder if this is how Ying yang twins got whistle while you twerk

    • @t.l.
      @t.l. 2 роки тому +1

      You really have to wonder that??

  • @jaybee9269
    @jaybee9269 2 роки тому +1

    Was it 1937 or 1938? You said both.

  • @ellismartin260
    @ellismartin260 2 роки тому

    5 dollars then compared to the current is right about 100$, Hell now, no movie is worth that

  • @AliceA333
    @AliceA333 7 місяців тому

    Eh...did it say the stars weren't recognized & had to pay 5 bucks to get in?? In the 1930s? Tickets were like 20 cents

  • @Angellady11
    @Angellady11 2 роки тому

    The host narrator is drunk

  • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
    @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 2 роки тому +4

    I wish Lego would change their minds & release the Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs Lego set.
    I'm still mad that greedy bastard Peter Dinklage ruined that.

    • @AliceA333
      @AliceA333 7 місяців тому

      The Game of Thrones guy? Snow White lego set sounds awesome. How did he ruin it?

    • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
      @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 7 місяців тому

      @AliceA333 Lego was gonna release a set based on the original animated Disney Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. The live action movie was announced and Peter Dinklage was outraged they were going to have actors who have dwarfism or who are little people play the seven dwarfs. So, Lego canceled the set due to the controversy.
      Since then, the movie will have CGI "forrest dwellers " of various heights and genders.
      On the bright side, Lego decided to change their minds and release the set based on the original animated movie.

    • @AliceA333
      @AliceA333 7 місяців тому

      @@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety Wtf. Who else does he expect to play a damn dwarf? I guess a kid could, but how's that better? What if it was "Snow White & the 7 Tall Men"?
      "Snow White will be played by Jennifer Lawrence, and the 7 tall men will be played by Kevin Hart, The Olsen Twins, and 4 animated fairies"???? Well now 7 other little actors don't have a choice if they want the job or not.

    • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
      @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 7 місяців тому +1

      @@AliceA333 Exactly. Dinklage thinks he's the only one able to work.

  • @TheBatmanvs1
    @TheBatmanvs1 2 роки тому +2

    Second

  • @sammylane21
    @sammylane21 2 роки тому +1

    "$5 a ticket"! Yeesh! Can you imagine what Disney Execs would think of MARVEL, PIXAR and DISNEY proper earnings?? They'd jeez themselves until they're empty.😂

  • @darcykins123
    @darcykins123 2 роки тому +3

    I love Snow White but never liked the ending when she just rode away on the horse and never said to the little men please come and visit us anytime and we'll visit you too, very ungrateful I thought lol

    • @jangles1839
      @jangles1839 2 роки тому +3

      🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, there could have been a "Y'all come see us soon!".

    • @darcykins123
      @darcykins123 2 роки тому

      @@jangles1839 I think it teaches children to be ungrateful and not even say thank you to them for allowing her to stay with them. I seem to be getting carried away now and taking it too far lol plus it's encouraging children that it's OK to live in strange men's houses, I'll stop now lol lol

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому

      @@jangles1839 LOL! One could just imagine Snow White talking like Ellie May Clampett!

  • @fumanpoo4725
    @fumanpoo4725 2 роки тому +3

    MAGA Trumpian horror...

  • @joymcguire
    @joymcguire 2 роки тому +8

    My mother, born in 1930, loved the film so much she stole a Snow White purse from the drugstore!

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому +2

      My mother was two years old when Snow White was released. I could sense she always loved the movie because it provided one of the brighter moments amidst The Depression. Very recently, I showed her a YT video on the making of the movie and she remembered how lovely Snow White's character was.
      I was born in the latter half of the 1960s so by comparison, I had all kinds of great music and movies in my earliest days.
      When I was a pre-schooler, she bought me the Snow White storybook and Disneyland record. She also bought me the same package of Peter Pan!

  • @markwoods4439
    @markwoods4439 2 роки тому +3

    Wow, five dollars a ticket you can’t get a matinee ticket that low today😂😂

  • @robertw31968
    @robertw31968 2 роки тому +3

    I remember in 1974 when I was 6 years old my mom and dad took us to see Where the Red Fern Grows. It was a double feature with Snow White playing right after. That's the first time I remember see Snow White. It was and has been one of my favorite movies of all time. Dopey was my favorite drawf.

  • @anthonyllido9720
    @anthonyllido9720 2 роки тому +4

    I always love this film💯❤️

  • @thomasmeyer6407
    @thomasmeyer6407 2 роки тому +10

    The child that exists in all of us....
    So true, once a person loses that, they're no longer living. They take things way too seriously.

    • @roderickfernandez5382
      @roderickfernandez5382 2 роки тому +2

      I believe you are absolutely correct. I am 84 years old and my friend still called me childlike or is it childish who knows I don't think I've ever seen Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs all the way through.

    • @normalee2682
      @normalee2682 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed! I am 76 & Disney World is my favorite place on earth!

  • @mumm380
    @mumm380 2 роки тому +2

    I remember getting told that when my late mother was taken to see it, she screamed and hid under her seat when the wicked witch came on the screen. Her Dad refused to take her to the movies for a while afterwards

  • @meyerj75
    @meyerj75 2 роки тому +4

    I liked Pinocchio better.

    • @rongendron8705
      @rongendron8705 2 роки тому +3

      And somewhat scary. also! Peter Pan wasn't bad,either! Saw that one in the movies in 1954!

    • @meyerj75
      @meyerj75 2 роки тому +1

      @@rongendron8705 Not to mention the introduction of both Disneyland and The Wonderful World of Disney on television the following year!🧚🧚‍♂🧚‍♀

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому

      @@rongendron8705 Peter Pan might well be my favorite Disney movie.
      I've always liked the wit of the characters in the movie as well as the pace of the story itself.

  • @barbaramerrywell3379
    @barbaramerrywell3379 2 роки тому +1

    I saw this movie at the Tower Theatre in downtown Dallas, Texas, as very little girl. It was magic.

  • @cynthiakeller5954
    @cynthiakeller5954 2 роки тому +1

    I really like this presenter and how he presents this and other movie material. Great clips and the stories behind them. Watched other Grunge vids and they use allot of stock photos and sound like they are talking from their feelings.

  • @smileyflowergirl
    @smileyflowergirl 2 роки тому +1

    It sounds so magical and exciting!! I love the history in this. I have loved the movie since I can remember. Awesome video Grunge! Love it!!

  • @GanjaxMan
    @GanjaxMan 2 роки тому +2

    First!

  • @mollymolohon6580
    @mollymolohon6580 2 роки тому +2

    I'm still amazed at how wonderful "Snow White” is and how awesome that film truly can be for EVERYONE, not just little kids!!❣️🤓

    • @cynthiakeller5954
      @cynthiakeller5954 2 роки тому +1

      It's my favorite Disney movie. Too bad Disney is now about rubbish and perversions.

    • @meyerj75
      @meyerj75 2 роки тому +1

      @@cynthiakeller5954 Not to mention its huge support for gays and lesbians.

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan Рік тому +1

      @@cynthiakeller5954 Disney has been infiltrated and influenced by too much of the woke-poisoned media and SJWs.

    • @cynthiakeller5954
      @cynthiakeller5954 Рік тому

      @@FischerFan As part of the no longer silent majority, I will not support that poisoned well company. It had great programming for all ages to enjoy. Their loss. I have many younguns I indulge both with my time and bank.
      No more dolls, toys, clothing, movies...

    • @cynthiakeller5954
      @cynthiakeller5954 Рік тому

      @@meyerj75 I get there is a lgbtq community but there is an even larger dare I say vast community of hetero that Disney is discounting. We're still here. If Disney continues its attempt to destroy the status quo, Disney will no longer be. The heteros have staying power and love to dote (that means buying goods) on the younger generations.

  • @Papag53
    @Papag53 2 роки тому +1

    Snow White and the 7 genders

  • @cynthiakeller5954
    @cynthiakeller5954 2 роки тому

    Germany jumped on the merchandising side of Snow White with a Snow White Cake. White cake with sour cherries and chocolate layers.

  • @deepwoodguy2
    @deepwoodguy2 2 роки тому

    nice that the "guns were out" for this presentation... 😎😎

  • @daniellevinson6975
    @daniellevinson6975 2 роки тому

    4:50 - 4:54 😲