REACTING to *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* THIS IS ICONIC!! (First Time Watching) Animator Reacts
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James and animator Ninetailedbrush are reacting to the original Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!!! This film changed animation forever so we HAD to watch it!! This is iconic!!! Enjoy this first time watching animator reacts video!
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I remember how shocked I was when I found out Snow is supposed to be 14, but it explains a lot, her naivety, innocence and absolute superb roasting skills without even realizing it
It's a bit tricky, I think they went for 14 because in the beginning of the fairy tale she is 7 years old, and then spends another 7 years in the casket. People on the internet like to get real mad discussing Snow White's age lol.
and I believe florian is supposed to be 31 or 21 I don't remember
@@joseribas5235 the prince is actually supposed to be 18 or 17.
@@frannyc7248 omg thank God
Mmm yeah but 14ers don't have roasting skill they're just cringey
Fun fact:
At a recording session, Lucille La Verne, the voice of the Wicked Queen, was told by Walt Disney's animators that they needed an older, raspier version of the Queen's voice for the Old Witch. La Verne stepped out of the recording booth, returned a few minutes later, and gave a perfect "Old Hag's voice" that stunned the animators. When asked how she did it, she replied, "Oh, I just took my teeth out."
Okay I'm guessing she had dentures but before that thought came to me that sentence was terrifying to read 😂😂
She was also a play writer and a producer ... ( Not on the Disney film, generally speaking ) she had a very fascinating life,she died in 1945 RIP
I love that it's just the fun fact I needed right now.
@@alexp.d3689 How old was she when she starred in Snow White?
Yeah I knew that lol 😂 she’s funny 😄
The whole "singing to the animals" in early disney movies had a very practical background. Back then, Disney animators hadn't really figured out how to animate humans all that well (which is why in most scenes Snow White is sitting down or leaning out of a window, while all the movement comes from the animales surrounding her) while they had a pretty good idea to animate at least small animals (they were still struggling with deers and horses). Basically the animals provide the movement to hide how static the human characters still are. The Dwarves were a handy choice for similiar reasons, because they were allowed to be more cartooney.
Source?
@@lampad4549 That Disney had trouble animating human characters? Just look at any feature ever made about the creation of Snow White...or Cinderella or Sleeping beauty. The problems continued a problem regarding the Prince until Sleeping Beauty, which is why the Scene in which Charming was originally supposed to meet Cinderella was cut and Phillip got the "Escapte the Dungeon" scene which was originally an idea for Snow White's prince.
That they only learned animating deers properly for Bambi? Just watch any feature for Bambi, were you can see that they actually brought deers to the studio, so that the animators could study their movements properly.
That Snow White is pretty static in most scenes? Just pay attention to the damn movie, and you will notice how often the movement in the scenes comes either from the animals or the Dwarfes instead of her.
@@swanpride Thanks for pointing these out. I'm curious about animation. It helps seeing how even Disney struggled with something in their beginning.
@@lampad4549 bruh you have the infinite library that is google
Yes it did lol 😂 I like Snow White lol 😂 she’s cute 🥰 she’s beautiful 😍
So I learned this little factoid recently. There were female animation interns on set, like when they were photographing the animation cels. They were in charge of the cels and switching them out, seeing how it looked in between the shot. The animators lamented how they couldn't paint blush on Snow White and make it look like real blush. So when they noticed the shots and saw she does indeed have blush. Walt Disney himself asked how the animators did it, they said they didn't do it. He asked the women in charge of the cels, and they answered with make up, literal make up, that they just applied onto the painted cels. They applied Snow White's makeup over 500 times if I remember correctly.
Wow, that's incredible!
Prime example of why women are needed in the workplace, lol.
No wonder why Snow's blush looks soft
And what was worse, was they STILL wouldn't allow women to be lead animators for decades. It was official policy - women were good enough to do the grunt work with cell coloring and shading, but wouldn't even be considered for key animation or creative positions.
@@hopeofdawn Not quite true...that was official policy in pretty much all animation studios, but if Walt Disney saw a talent, you could bet that he would use said talent, no matter what. Case to point: Mary Blair. Thing was more that there was little opportunity for women to catch his attention in the first place. But Disney had women in leading positions way earlier than most studios. (Meaning they were backwards from our perspective, but back then, they were actually a better option for women than pretty much any other studio).
A few quick facts for not only the first ever Disney movie but the first ever animated movie!
1) Months before the movie was set to release, critics across the country dubbed it “Disney’s Folly” as due to a fully animated movie never being attempted, everyone thought it would bomb and bankrupt Disney.
2) The audience's initial reactions at the premiere of the movie shocked the entire production crew. Many viewers were heavily crying at Snow White’s death, cheering when she was woken, and the entire audience gave a standing ovation at its end.
3) Although it wasn’t in the running for an Oscar, Walt still received an achievement award at the Academy Awards (presented to him by Shirley Temple). The award featured the golden oscar man surrounded by seven other smaller versions of him to represent the dwarfs.
Here another fact: It wasn't the first animated movie by ANY means. It was just the first released in the US and the first one which used this kind of animation. The oldest animated movies are actually from Argentina which used some form of stop motion, but have been lost. The oldest surviving Animated movie is the German movie The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which preceeds Snow White by a decade and used Silhouette Animation. And if you know the movie, you know that Disney was clearly inspired by it, considering that he lifted a lot of its technique...his so called Multi-Plane camera is basically a fancy name for a construct which just made it easier to use the same technique Lotte Reiniger already used, and the transformation scenes from her movie were clearly an inspiration too.
Don't get me wrong, it was an achievement, but to think that it was the first is the result of Disney effective marketing regarding the movie.
First ever animated movie my ass! There've been theatrical animated features as well as shorts since decades before this. Yes, features were less and Disney helped popularize it but no way this is the first animated movie.
Don't forget the kiss was done because Disney wasn't sure if they'd ever make Sleeping Beauty.
@@swanpride Thank you. Although it actually wasn't even the first one in the US. Pinto Colvig's Animated Films Corporation made a feature length animated movie called Creation way back in 1916. Pinto Colvig, who voiced Sleepy and Grumpy in this was also the original voice of Goofy and Pluto. Kind of rude of Disney to take credit for that when they have the guy who actually made the first feature length animated movie voicing characters for them in this
It's not considered a full-length movie, but my favorite cartoonist, Winsor McCay, became an animator around 1911; putting out a 10 minute short called "Winsor McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the NY Herald and His Moving Comics."
I learned about him by accident while looking for a topic for a comic book history course. The guy was a genius, who trained as a draftsman, and he got into comic strips, animation, and mixing live action with animation very early. He created his own films of varying lengths from 1911 to 1921, all out of his own pocket.
I forgot why he never made the effort to compete with Disney. Possibly, money might've been the problem. But I remember thinking he was a Lot like Tesla -- he was arguably much more talented than those who became household names, so we'll never know if his full capabilities.
Here are some of his works, which can probably be found on UA-cam
__ 1906, McCay released Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, after that he released the 1911 test animation of his famous character, Little Nemo
__ 1912, How a Mosquito Operates
__ 1914, Gertie the Dinosaur
__ 1918, a rendering of the historic tragedy, Sinking of the Lusitania
Decades later, in 1989, a Japanese anime was created of "Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland," which was also based off of his famous comic strip of the same name.
Look him up sometime if you guys have a chance. He did some pretty amazing things back then that are still practiced today
She did say, "Slave in the magic mirror" so I don't think he has a choice about outing Snow White.
I never noticed that before makes me think she used her powers to put someone that angered her in the mirror
@@stephaniefox896 That was actually explained in "Once Upon a Time," although the premise of that show was these fairy tale characters weren't exactly the way you knew them.
@@les4767 It's also used in _Fairest if Them All_ , a young adult novel exploring the Queen's backstory. In that, it was her own father's spirit that inhabited the mirror, her payback for how he raised her.
Snow White's funeral, especially when Grumpy bursts into tears, always kills me. I just start crying like a baby.
Me too.
Grumpy crying for snow white hits me the most, like you can tell that he really regrets for not being nice to her since he met her. And oh my gosh, let's not forget that snow white was making a pie for grumpy with his name on it! Can you imagine how grumpy felt when he saw that pie and realized that she was making it for him moments before she died?? That makes it extra sad 😭
29:20 An interesting fact: During that scene, the people were actually believing she was having a heart attack at first. Because La Verne's acting is so incredible, the moment when she said "a drink of water, please.", one of the men came inside and gave her a glass of water.
You know you’re acting is well done when the filmmakers were also decieved by your own acting.
I love how as far as Snow White is concerned, the "magic wishing apple" worked. She wished she'd get married to the Prince, took a bite, fell asleep, then woke up to the Prince coming to take her away to his castle.
If you look at it from her point of view, she made the wish and passed out. Only to wake with the prince kissing her. Apple as advertised- lol. Then that means she won’t find out that she was poisoned until later. Not to mention she has no idea how much time has passed. Snow’s gonna be PISSED. 😂
@@Ivy94F she gotta just look at a calendar after moving into the prince's castle, and then she'll start having questions.
That, plus technically the Queen’s castle is hers, so she has two castles now and no more mean step mother.
My mom's favorite dwarf was always Bashful. The way he goes "oh gosh" and twists his beard is so funny and cute.
@katywithatea That was probably true! So cute.
My brother’s favorite dwarf is dopey.
@@nathancruz9172 Dopey is cute. And him being silent makes him really funny with slapstick.
@@MysticWolfMagic that’s right.
Dopey is the best. ✅
If one keeps their eye on Grumpy, notice how his demeanor changes by the end. He starts out as Gruff towards Snow White and by the time she's in danger from the witch he's the first to take off to the rescue plus is utterly crushed even more then the others by her death.
Fun Fact: the voice actress for Snow White had a small part in the wizard of Oz. When the Tin Man sings If I only had a heart she sings “wherefore art though Romeo.”
And another fun fact: the magic mirror can’t lie, so he had no choice but to expose Snow White.
Her name is Adrianna Caselotti. She was also the uncredited singer at Martini's Bar in *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946).
Taking this role kind of destroyed her career, actually. Walt wanted to keep Snow White's voice as a special one time sound and kept her to a very strict contract.
Yeah Adriana caselotti she was in the wizard of oz with Judy garland for a brief time lol 😂
that poor turtle
One thing that stands out to me about this movie is through the lens of the Great Depression-Snow White’s personality & perspective on life is fitting to the time period (think of her hark-working & selfless nature in the face of potential death).
The film is some needed escapism while encapsulating the “grin & bear it” ideology; if she did & still saw a light at the end of the tunnel, then so can you.
This was my Dad's favorite movie of all time.. Not animated.. Of ALL TIME! He was 8 when it came out and could not wait for all of us kids to see it. God rest his soul!
Fun Fact: the actress playing the Queen was told her Hag’s voice wasn’t haggard enough, whereupon, she took a moment. Then did her scenes perfectly. When asked what she did, she replied “I took out my teeth!”
Seeing as you asked where the dwarfs comes form - Snow White is based on two historical characters (a 16th century countess and an 18th century duchess). One of those characters lived in (or close to) a late medieval German village with a long standing mining industry. The men started work in the mines at six years old and, by the time they'd grown to adulthood they all had restricted growth due to working down in the mines every day in cramped underground conditions. By the time the story was written down by the brother's Grimm the memory of the dwarven miners was probably quite strong in the town even if the mine was no longer in use.
I did not know this. Not this part of the story, anyway. This is both interesting and sad. 😟
It’s interesting and sad lol 😂
@@elib12 And probably completely untrue. Sounds like an old wives' tale to me.
There were a lot of mines in Germany and in Austria as well in the Middle Ages and later on. I doubt that has anything to do with the fairtale. Every fairtale is full of symbolisim, starting with symbolism of colors and flowers, woods for example always mean something subconscious. They shouldn't be taken literal. The dwarfs are not short people they are earth spirits and spirits represending the underworld/ death. So while Snow White stays with them, she is already kind of dead and only the prince can awaken her again. I don't think it is even mentioned the dwarfs are miners. Besides most of the story is about a mother getting scared of getting old and beeing jealouse of her daughter also showing competition between women of different generations especially between mothers and daughters (I know it says stepmother but stepmother is just the dark side of the mother). There is also a warning of strangers.
@@poohslosteyes264 Even if the town exists I doubt it has anything to do with the Fairytale. They should never be taken literal. The dwarfs are not short people/miners they are earth spirits/underworld spritis who represent death. Snow White is going through some development through the story.
I really love classic animation, I feel like the princesses always looked different but in modern movies like inside out, wreck it ralph, frozen and tangled, the princesses all follow the same big head, small body, big eyes architype. Almost like powerpuff girls.
well the powderpuff girls are iconic - my favourite was bubbles
@@agenttheater5nah
There is not princess in "Inside out" besides some of the princess then were kind of similar too: Aurora, Cinderella and the "Swan Princess" are very similar. Even Snow White's torn skirts in the beginning of this movie are similar to Cinderella's.
Almost all this animation is perfect.
Disney himself noted that the deer weren't that great. They kinda looked like sacks of potatoes. To fix that, for the upcoming "Bambi" ... which features deer ... he brought in some fawns to the studio and let them frolic around in an enclosed yard while the animators watched them.
I wish the Prince was a little more prevalent in the story, same with Cinderella, because the prince kind of appeared out of nowhere. But from what I've seen and heard in behind the scenes features, the animators just had difficult times drawing the men in their films.
Yes I think they had a little trouble animating the more realistic men, the dwarves were more cartoony so they were easier. As you say that's why they kept his scenes to a minimum. By the time they got to Cinderella they were able to do a bit more and Sleeping Beauty even more.
Exactly lol
they appears from nowhere and they get the best even they didnt moved a finger :E
That's kinda weird. lol
Yes, apparently they were going to have him get captured by the queen and escape afterwards, but they couldn't do it because of the animation difficulty and the budget, so they gave that sequence to prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty.
Well in the source material he doesn't appear until after Snow White is presumed dead for a while. So at least they met and fell for each other before that.
In 1937, we were still in the grip of the great depression. The Nazis were on the march and for twenty five cents people could sit in the dark, shut out the fear and be carried away to a land that didn't exist but made them smile and enjoy a happy ending
Snow White knocking on that door and immediately assuming there must be nobody home is my post man's role model.
In "Enchanted", surely Amy Adam's based at least 85% of her interpretation of a Disney Princess on Snow White.
I love that movie. She was incredible in it
As a child the VHS I had also had ‘the making of Snow White’ as a special feature. I think it’d really interest you!
Edit: I looked for it on UA-cam and it was ‘The making of Snow White and the seven dwarfs’ 1994 VHS exclusive. It’s just 10 mins long and shows Walt Disney talking about the movie and the different stages of the animation process
Me too.
Yea I used to love seeing all the behind the scenes when watching on VHS. That’s how I saw behind the scenes for the lion king and the jungle book too
There's is a much better longer making of that is on UA-cam. One hosted by Angela Lansbury and one from 2009.
I had that vhs too!
“Can you imagine you came back to your apartment and this random lady was cleaning it” 😂 omg something like this actually happened, a guy hired to clean an apartment accidentally broke in, and I say accidentally because the person who hired him said he left a key under the mat for him, so he went to the wrong apartment that also had a key under their mat and he cleaned a random persons apartment haha. The people who lived in the apartment jokingly said they didn’t know if they should call the police or not to report a “Breaking and Cleaning” haha 😂
Animation at this time was considered the “Intermezzi” of its day, a short film to show between putting on another feature film. This movie was called “Disney’s Folly” in the trades because no one believed anyone would pay good money to see a feature film length cartoon. They took the world by storm, and even won a special award at the Oscars (a normal sized statuette and seven smaller ones.) Even Tolkien took some cues, as one of the dwarves in his story (can’t recall right off hand), his name means “Sleepy” in Dwarvish.
Probably poor fat Bombur
In one telling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the evil queen cannot find a way to transform herself back to her original self and instead hides within the woods for the rest of her days.
Another ending which is much more darker, the evil Queen returns back to her kingdom and after asking the mirror who the fairest of them all is, he answers the new queen is much beautiful than her.
So she goes to see the new Queen and sees it’s Snow White, she’s so shocked that she’s frozen in fear on how she could still be alive and when Snow White sees her, she sentences the Evil Queen to dance in iron shoes that are red hot from burning over the fire.
The Evil Queen dances in the hot iron shoes until she dies and Snow White and the king live happily ever after.
It’s very dark, but it’s interesting to know of the many other endings for these famous fairytale stories.
In most versions I heared as a child she just screams with so much anger ( after questioning the mirror again) that she trops down dead. Also in the original tale were she ends up burning on iron shoes she dosn't transform at all but only disguises herself.
In the original story Queen Grimhilde (evil queen) tried to kill snow white on 3 separate occasions. The first was with a spool of lace when she tied her corset too tight (causing SW to be unable to breathe. The second was with a poisoned comb as she tried to use it scratch SW's skin, but it didn't work. The last was with the apple which wasn't poisoned, but rather got stuck on SW's throat. After being rescued she invited the former queen to the wedding and then forced her to wear a pair or red hot iron shoes. The Grimm version for this, Cinderella, and sleeping beauty were all very dark.
And Cinderella wasn't as dark as Asheypaddle (a very similar version the Grimm's brothers also collected where it's a mask instead of a glass slipper and ... that might be where the two birds at the end of Cinderella come in - an echo from Asheypaddle).
@@raphaelperry8159 in the Grimm version the stepsisters cut off toes and a heel to make the shoe fit. Again, the step family are invited to the wedding, and the birds peck out the eyes.
Yep. In the Grimm version of Cinderella the stepsisters cut off their toes and heels to try to make the shoe fit then the birds peck out their eyes. Interestingly the glass slipper may, at one point, have been a fur boot that was simply mis-translated.
In the Grimm version of Asheypaddle it's a masked ball. When the sisters try to wear the mask to go to the ball on subsequent nights the mask does not fit, digging into their eyesockets on one side or another. The stepmother has a surgeon remove an eye from each daughter so that she can wear the mask but when the prince dances with them he sees blood dripping from beneath the mask. He observes that the mask is digging into the eye socket and, upon removing it, finds that there is no eye (for it was very recently removed). At this point he knows that each of them is an imposter. Interestingly in the Asheypaddle version there is no fairy godmother. Asheypaddle uses witchcraft herself to ensure that she can go to the ball.
There's also an interesting Algonquin version.
@@raphaelperry8159 I think I've heard the Algonquin version, but I wasn't aware of Asheypaddle. That's pretty gruesome too. Wow 😲😳
The Queen always scared the bejesus out of me, especially when she transformed in the Old Crone!
After the movie premiered at Radio City Music Hall, many seats had to be replaced because kids were so scared they peed their pants.
I totally forgot Snow White prayed at night. Don't think any other Princesses ever prayed since.
The direct irony of the Queen being so obsessed with her beauty and being the fairer, that she turns herself in what she was inside, a wicked old hag, in order to get close to kill Snow White
I do miss these writing elements of Disney where someone’s true nature is fully revealed by having them become on the outside what they always were inside.
Have you guys seen Bambi yet? In the making of Bambi they talk about how they needed more practice studying animals compared to the "flour sack" deer in Snow White.
Lmao, both of you joking around whilst watching the movie made it so much more entertaining. Snow White will always have a special place in my heart ❤ I like Dopey.
I loved it when he called the animals ‘enablers.’ Lol!
Walt Disney used a lot of live-action reference film, which hadn't really been done before to such an extent. Rotoscoping was popular at the time and Walt used it often. Most of the dancing scenes and all of Prince Charming's character movement were rotoscoped. The roto tracings were used as a guide for timing and positioning while the cartoon characters of different proportions were drawn to conform to those positions.
Very iconic. Walt Disney's first major film.
The amount of work he had to put into the animation was insane! By any standards of any era, his work ethic on these projects dwarfs so many in comparison.
I see what you did there.
@@oliverbrownlow5615 ☺
I’m surprised this never won the poll before, I’ve always been under the impression that Snow White was favorite/classic among Disney fans. Maybe not necessarily because of the plot but more because of the hilarious dwarfs, the interesting fact that it was the first (or at least one of) animated movies ever made, etc. My brother and I still like watching it from time to time. This reaction had me laughing. 😄 Thanks so much for putting this up!!
Plus I feel that this film should be required viewing for anyone who wants to be or is an animator.
@@Ivy94F Oh, definitely.
Fun Fact: Radio City Music Hall in New York City had to reupholster all of the seats in the theater after showing this movie because the kids watching the movie would pee their pants seeing the witch.
For a full-length Disney film that was the first to be brought on the big screen, Snow White is ver well done. I’d watch it a lot on VHS as a kid and have good time every time. It’s a beautifully animated feature in my opinion. Very nice reaction btw!🙂
Me too.
There's a lot of stuff with the Prince that had to be cut because he was so flippin' hard to animate properly, like a proper first meeting with Snow White, and a whole subplot where he's held prisoner in the Queen's dungeons and has to mount his own daring escape. A lot of this stuff got recycled for _Sleeping Beauty_ if that wasn't obvious.
Very impressive, especially for the first feature-length animated film ever.
So gotta be honest as a kid I was not a fan of this one. There were other disney movies and other Disney princess movies that caught my attention much more. But recently I rewatched it and this movie is amazing!!! The story.... the characters... everything is just set up so perfectly and though nothing for me can beat beauty and the beast this is close. Great reaction.
Okay a few things in case someone else didn't mention them yet:
1. Yes they used rotoscoping for this movie
2. There was animation prior to this however, it was animated shorts people paid to watch at the theater
3. This is both the first fully animated movie & it's in color, something so uncommon for the time that when Walt pitched these ideas for this movie, people called him crazy. Many didn't believe a movie like this could turn a profit.
Also during the production of the film Disney ran out of money. They had already spent $1,000,000.00. And it wasn't finished. They had to go to the bank and get a loan for $500,000.00, which he got. The loan officer said he had a hit on his hands that would make a fortune.
The movie was forbitten in Germany by the Nazis because it was "too Jewish" (not only Walt but also Snow White herself).
@@sawanna508 and yet, supposedly, locked away in one of his private studies, Hitler had stashed fanart of Snow White he'd drawn.
I watched an indepth look at the original snow white (created by a youtuber, sorry i dont remember who). They explained why snow white was sooooo popular (as a personality not just a movie). Shortened its that this was created around a ww and everyone was expected to act as snow white did in the movie, which made her not only relatable but also a roll model for those who thought it too hard and children. Everyone wanted a hardworking, happy, non complaining woman, no matter how hard the times got, and the promise that the prince (some say its the men from war, others say its the sweet embrace of the grim reaper) was on his way to make things better as her reward.
It was a cool video and i definitely look at it differently because of it. From that point of view snow white does get some flak now, mainly because of the music choices of that time.
Disney even used the seven dwarfs for comertials. One was to inform about malaria prevention and another one was directly connected to WW2 and adverticed certain investments people could by to support the war.
@@sawanna508 thats super cool! I knew about mickey and his friends doing that but not the dwarves 💕
I think today we look at Snow White and think of it as a little dated, but we forget that Snow White was a ground breaking film. Nobody had ever attempted a feature length animation and the other Hollywood studios called it Disney's Follie. No one believed it could work and indeed new technology such as the multi-plane camera, were first employed on the making of Snow White to make the film a success. Snow White made $8 million dollars on its original release and literally built Walt Disney Studios. Snow White totally changed the whole game and the following year after its release Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with the academy award.
This is my fav Disney movie. Not only is a masterpiece, she is my fav princess, tha animation is great... yeah, the plot is simple, but is a FAIRYTALE. Most modern "Disney Tales" are reinvented, but Disney just took the fairytale and give it a little animation magic.
They said that when people in the studio became unmotivated, he stoped everything and began telling the tale to everyone. With passion. And I believe that is what most Disney films lack nowadays: PASSION. He almost ruined himself for his dream; now they only do sequels, prequels, remakes... play it safe, just make money, you know. They lost a lot of the magic Walter had.
Walt Disney really was a man ahead of his time
There is still one new Diseny movie every year but one problem is there are only so much Fairtales you can turn into a movie without repeating yourself because the story motives and tropes are repeating themselves. -I think one I would really like to see as a Diseny animation is "The Seven Ravens".
Lucille LaVerne was the voice of the Evil Queen and the Witch. Originally, they were going to cast a different actress to voice the Witch but Lucille LaVerne proved that she could do it by taking out her false teeth and performing the voice that way.
She then literally transformed herself, this is one of the first instances of character immersion
Grumpy is my favorite. He has a big heart but he doesn’t like to show it. I even have a hoodie I wear all the time with him on it. Before Disney made Snow White he made silly symphonies in which they fine tuned a lot of what you see here. They created the Multi plain camera which gives depth of Perception and practical effects for the water and rain.
He reminds me of Popeye the sailor man.
I was literally just watching this film yesterday and here I am today watching it again.
This honestly is a strangely fantastic masterpiece. The plot's very simple when you look at it but everything else just makes the story so grand with the music and art guiding viewers through each emotion.
There's actually a song that didn't make it into the movie where Snow White is teaching the dwarves table manners. I've seen the pencil sketches and in that scene Dopey finally coughs up the soap he swallowed.
The evil queen's name is "Grimhilde." TV Trope: "All there in the script."
In the original fairy tale, the dwarves give the prince the coffin. Transporting the coffin, one of the servants stumbles because it is so heavy. It falls to the ground and the impact dislodges the piece of apple that got stuck in her throat. Snow White (Schneewittchen) comes back to life and her and the prince get married. At the wedding, the evil queen is made to dance in red-hot iron slippers until she drops dead.
Oh yeah! I remember the part about the piece of apple being stuck in her throat!
Yep. That’s Brothers Grimm for ya.
Also, the Queen is more sadistic in the story. Instead of ordering the Huntsman to bring Snow White's heart, she asked for her lungs and intestines. AND SHE ATE THEM BEFORE SHE REALIZED THAT THEY WERE FROM A PIG!!!! That woman is a psychopath.
@@osmanyousif7849, the Queen was jealous bc the king loved his previous wife and loves his daughter more than her. Got so bad, that she decided to get rid of her rival by having the young child murdered. Luckily, they were subjects who love the princess more than the Queen and saved her life as best they could.
Forcefully dancing until you die sounds like a harrowing fate. Perhaps it’s a good thing Disney’s version of the Evil Queen just literally fall, thanks to Zeus
(And then along came Zeus!)
In the Brothers Grimm version, the Prince found her in the woods and ordered his men to carry her back to the castle. The men lifted the coffin, but one of them faltered. It caused the coffin to drop with a sudden thud, and from Snow White's mouth, the piece of the poisoned apple came out. Then Snow White woke from her slumber.
Walt Disney made the resolution a lot stronger than the book .. Something I like about HIS films is that the first 3 Disney princesses have good set ups built ups and pay offs ,if you look at their plot structures ... The Grimm's writing was weak at best ... Disney's take has objectively better characters and story
@@alexp.d3689 Yeah, because the stories were short and mostly told in 3rd person without the use of a lot of dialogue. You definitely had to stretch it out for a full length feature, and I felt that the Grimms left a lot of room for creative development of each character. Like you said, some of the characters are just there, and could use an arc of their own to make the story richer.
@Bride of Bronze Eye, or Science Princess And much like Aschenputtel ,Snow White calmly watches her enemy getting tortured in front of her eyes...lol
@@alexp.d3689 They are Fairtales the charakter development happens underneath the surface since most of the story is symbolic and somewhat universal that's how they are written. I like the end with the dislodged apple better then beeing kissed back to live. If a kiss is always the savior it gets boring.
This film was revolutionary not just being the first full length 2d animated film (there were other animated films made before this, but not 2d animated),
Also Walt was furious that the film wasn't nominated for Best Picture, but the Academy gave Walt an honorary Oscar of One giant Statue and seven little statues on a pedestal presented by Shirley Temple.
This film was such a big hit MGM gave the go ahead to make The Wizard of Oz tk compete as a family film.
This was the first time in a film that characters were given names to match their personalities.
WALT did unfortunately given Adriana Caseolotti (voice of Snow White) the shaft as he had it in her contract that she couldn't lend her voice in other films to keep the voice of Snow White forever young, but you can hear her voice in two other films (Wizard of Oz-Wherefore Art Thou Romeo, and as a background voice in It's a Wonderful Life).
That just how the biz was back then
it's so refreshing to see a reaction with people actually enjoying and appreciating this movie! Of course there are loads of regular reviews that enjoy it since it's such an important piece of animation, but when it comes to reactions I feel like everyone else is just bored with it and don't appreciate the little details or character moments! This was my fav movie as a kid because as mentioned, how smooth everything was. I remember being so immersed in it like I was actually there, to the point I could actually feel stuff that was happening in it! I think a lot of people forget that snow white started pretty much every princess trope. people like to call her basic but at one point she was entirely new and original. I'm glad to see people look at it from that perspective.
That was the first long fully animated film, it was one of those times no one believed this new thing would work cuz, crazy idea, no one would watch a children's animation that's so long!
Yeah, they watched it, and they loved it. Walt Disney wins again!
This was my favourite Disney movie as a child, I had a bobbed haircut and brown eyes and lived in a Snow White gown. The forest scene used to terrify me though, I still think about it when I'm walking home alone now and I'm 25. 😂
We actually discussed Snow White's status as the first animated movie an an animation class I took! While Snow White is often called the first animated movie, it's actually not. The first feature length animated movies were made by Quirino Cristiani, starting in 1917 with his 70-minute film El Apóstol. Unfortunately due to political issues, all of his work has been lost. The film credited as the earliest surviving feature length animation is The Adventures of Prince Achmed, made by Lotte Reiniger and released in 1926.
There aren't many pre 90s Disney movies I'm a big fan of. I think it's maybe 4-5 I really treasure and this is one of them. I think a lot of people take it for granted because when anything becomes so emblematic it's almost more brand than slice of creativity but Snow White just has artistry seeping from every pore. I don't think Disney movies lean on gothic type influences enough, when they do it's always fantastic.
Snow White feels very gothic in the most classic sense. The castle she lives in, the transformation scene of the stepmother into the hag, just the general vibe in the more serious, non comedic scenes. I really appreciate it as I get older. Cinderella focuses a bit too much on the comic relief and I wish Sleeping Beauty was all comic relief, but Snow White has all its parts in perfect working order and I kind of become more impressed with every watch.
Disneys first movies like Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia really feel like they were made more for the artistic merit rather than comedic, but after Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi were all finacial failures they focused more on comedic movies to please the movie going crowd starting with Dumbo
@@headofcosmospictures1232 To be fair, part of the reason why they were financial failures was the situation in Europe.
Walt Disney had wanted to make this movie for a long time. When he was a teenager he saw a live action 1916 version of Snow White in the theater. That movie inspired him to go into film.
it's funny when you think about it from snow whites perspective the wishing apple was legit because she wished for the prince and then she wakes up and he's there lol
Precisely.
THIS is NOT the FIRST ever animated movie. There've been theatrical animated features as well as shorts since decades before this. Yes, features were less and Disney helped popularize it but no way this is the first animated movie.
Nice reaction guys! "I like that bucket. That backet looks good" that's what he said 🤣🤣🤣 I'm rolling y'all 🤣
This movie both terrified me and fascinated me as a kid I loved the deer. Queen though was a whole different mood.
Supposedly back when it released a lot of theatre seats had to be cleaned up because the audience peed in its pants when the Queen transformed.
@@swanpride I believe it for its time this was shocking to see on screen
Disney movies: They make you laugh, they make you cry, they make you wet your pants… and this historical movie has evidence for all three
Snow White & Goldilocks-
There is actually a segment from both written fairytales that is almost identical to each other; that is the sequence of eating, resting, & discerning the sizes of each object. It could be that either one fairytale spawned from another or the original fairytale developed into something completely different. I mean, oral tradition is how these fairytales were carried down until the 17-18th century, I believe.
If you don't want the sweetness of the ending ruined don't read this.
At the end the prince comes and kisses her, wakes her up into her happily ever after and takes her to his kingdom in the clouds. There was no indication that the his kingdom was high in the mountains, or just harshly backlit by a sunset so you can't see the land, it was a kingdom floating in the clouds, which is the same (very popular at the time of making this movie) description that many people, especially parents, would use for heaven as an easy to understand concept for kids. Snow White didn't wake up at the end of the movie, she was taken to her heaven, her happily ever after.
Wow, I've never seen it like that. Interesting!
I always prefer that they make Snow White very sweet but not too manipulated (she only falls for the Queen's trick once in this version.) In this version, she helps the old lady and takes her offer of an Apple. Whereas, in the original, she is tricked 3 times.
Once by a corset that is so tight that she can't breathe and passes out (presumed dead) until then Dwarfs later find her and cut it and she can breathe again. Then she is tricked into accepting a poisoned comb and is knocked out (again presumed dead) until the Dwarfs remove it from her head.
Each time the attacks happen, the Dwarfs tell her to beware of strangers and Snow White ignores them because she is so friendly and trusting. Even in the end, she isn't awoken by a kiss. The Prince asks the Dwarfs to let him have her body (no one questions this :P) and as the Prince's men are carrying her coffin back to the Prince's kingdom, one of the men slips. This results in Snow White's body being jolted and this dislodges the apple and she is able to breathe again.
Disney was all about the power of true love's kiss against magic in this film and in Sleeping Beauty and then it morphed into "true love" changing into "family love" like in Brave and Frozen, etc.
Imagine seeing this as a four or five year old in a movie theater. They replayed this and some others in the 60s. We also had these stories on albums and they were acted out as theater. Terrifying and the music was world class. Children weren’t separated from scary stories because these were warnings about life.
Not only was animation the attraction for kids, but this was in full color while most movies were in B&W. Also there were not that many full length movies for kids at that time. Shorts like "Our Gang" etc , but not full length. It was like a Fairy Tale book coming to life.
The "Our Gang" shorts feature child actors, but I would dispute that their intended audience was kids. I think they were intended at least for general audiences, as they included many jokes that were aimed at adults, with the silliness and cuteness of kids usually being the main focus.
Fun fact: According to the Disney "making of" special for this movie, originally Dopey wasn't supposed to be out-of-sync with the other dwarves like that. It's just that, in one of the last scenes to be animated, Dopey was out of sync when he joined in the conga line, so the animator had to put in a little half-step to get him lined up with the other dwarves. None other than Walt Disney himself said he liked it, and made the other animators go back and put it in all the other (already finished) scenes.
If memory serves me right, I think the Prince was mostly Rotoscoped because he was the hardest character to animate for some reason and the Queen's animator went out of his way to avoid using Rotoscoping, but I may be misremembering that.
I once read an article that revealed the ages of the Disney Princesses and Snow White is the youngest of them at the age of 14.
To answer your question on rotoscoping. They used it minimally since Disney wanted to challenge the art form and the popular style of the day was what we refer to as "Rubber Hose" style. (Max Fleisure did use some rotoscoping for some Betty Boop dance sequences but in the industry, it wasn't standard). Walt Disney gave projects to his animators to increase their skills in preparation for Snow White to make it the best possible movie they could. In 1932 they produced the first full-color animated short called "Flowers and Trees" specifically to learn how to translate color well. Then in 1934 they did a cartoon called "the Goddess of Spring" to learn to animate a realistic human woman (watch and you can see how much they improved by the time of Snow White). Then they invented a camera that could create depth effects called the multiplane camera and did a short called "The Old Mill" just to test it and improve skills in animating a more realistic environment in 1937. Disney won academy awards for all of these shorts and one for technology for the multiplane camera. They took what they learned from all of this plus they created reference films and photographs for the animators. It is unknown what parts were actually rotoscoped but it was genuinely minimal.
Snow White will always be my favorite Disney princess not only she’s the classic original princess but I absolutely adore her personality because she literally looks and reminds me so much of my mom 😊❤️
Fun Fact: There's a deleted scene about what happend during dinner right after Grumpy's bath. With a song called "Music in your Soup"
All the dwarfs are eating in a noise and impolite way, so Snow White teaches them how to use the spoon right. However, they're still noisy while eating.
As he swalloed the soap, Dopey also swallos his spoon. By a kick from Happy, both items get out of Dopey's stomach.
The original fairy tale (est.1812) by the Brothers Grimm.
Disney's premier full-length animated feature.
Without this, no legendary run of animation for The Mouse House.
EVER.
Coming up on 85 years.
You know for sure that a big commemoration is on the way for the culture.
This is absolutely the first animated movie ever, and Walt Disney's company invented the multi-plane camera for this. The production of the movie was so expensive overall that the company operated in the red for YEARS afterward, with brother Roy basically going back to Bank of America multiple times for loans. The fact that the bank kept giving them loans shows how much they recognized how special the movie was and the potential of the studio do more.
Someone said if you look at it from Snow White's point of view, the old lady didn't lie. She made a wish, but the apple, and woke up to her prince carrying her to her happily ever after. It makes perfect sense.
story behind magic mirror is he cant lie at all. so when asked he MUST tell the truth
Most people give the true love's kiss thing a hard time, but in the original story, the Prince came across Snow White in her glass tomb and decided to transport her back to her father's castle, and one of the servants carrying her tripped and dropped the coffin. The apple that was stuck in Snow's throat dislodges and she vomits it up. Eventually, the prince and Snow get married. The evil queen comes to their wedding and the prince makes the queen dance to death in iron slippers for attempting to kill his now wife.
Imagine animating all that haha
Watch any other movie from the 1930's and you realize how revolutionary this movie was. The fact that Walt mortgaged his house to fund it's making shows how much he believed that animation was the future
I’m of the opinion that the evil queen manipulated her into being welcomed into the house. It helped that the birds who did want to save Snow White even though she didn’t know it attacked her and Snow White wanted to help the “Old Pedler Woman”
I think people need to remember she was wishing “For the One I Love to find her Today”
She and the prince were in love otherwise the curse could not have been broken
This scared me so much when I was little 😳 didn’t watch it for years til I studied film and had to watch it as an assignment. Now I preciate it very much, I mean…1937. It is fantastic!
Now that you've seen "Snow White", you guys need to go back and take another look at "Enchanted" to catch all the references, not just incidents but also in the animation itself.
You should watch Bednobs & Broomsticks as well as the original Pete's Dragon. They're some of the things I used to watch growing up. Also, the Aristocats.
You are correct. This is the first full length animated motion picture ever. People told Walt that it would fail but clearly they were wrong.
Fun fact: the queen’s official name is Grimhilda and the Prince’s name is Florian. I loved your reaction to the witch showing up at the cottage!! 🤣😂
Where's creepy prince charming? Is this creepy to you, Rachel! He APOLOGIZE for being creepy to her! Come on, he apologized to Snow White.
If a mirror tells a lie it will break in to a thousand pieces.
Every single frame was hand drawn. No autotune for singing. All sound effects were people and instruments.
Always trust the animals. 💯 If my dogs don't trust you ........
One of my favorite thing about the old disney movies was you can tell when an object was going to be used by a character just cus of how brighter it looked compared to everything else was in the background
I also just realized that Snow White actually dies in the end and goes to heaven. 😳 The castle is in the clouds..looks like heaven to me. I think she died and is in her perfect heaven, surrounded by the ones she loved.
it's probably an unpopular opinion, but she was my favourite disney princess growing up
So is my brother.
this is the only Disney princess ive seen and i haven seen this film in years forgot a lot of it what other princess are there?
@@RandyReviews1990 Aurora (sleeping beauty), Cinderella, Belle (beauty and the beast), Tiana (princess and the frog), Rapunzel (tangled), Jasmine (Aladdin), and Pocahontas just to name a few
I love Snow White, and I’ve always been fascinated by the history of it. You guys need to check out some of the early Disney shorts, such as flowers and trees, the skeleton dance, steamboat Willy, the old mill, and the Goddess of spring,. Especially the old mill and The Goddess of Spring. The old mill is where they developed and practiced cinematic movement, style and water effects, and The Goddess of Spring is where they practiced realistic living movement and facial structure. Both were a study to practice specifically for Snow White. That’ll give you an idea of how Disney developed the skills they needed to make the film. You can really see the influence of these shorts on the final masterpiece that is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Incidentally Flowers and trees is the first color cartoon.
guys it was a pure delight watching this with ya, thanks for sharing your reaction!
(also theres a deleted scene where Snow says "I will not stay if Im not wanted" and all the dwarves shut Grumpy up and a song that summed up Walt's filosofy on storytelling "you are never too old to be young")
Bambi was among the first Disney movies to be made, along with this one, and it is amazing seeing how much they had advanced in their animation of animals between Snow White (1937) and Bambi (1942). Like, compare the design of the deer in this one, to the ones in Bambi, and it is amazing how much more attention was later paid to anatomy and movement of animals.
Interestingly enough, _Bambi_ was meant to be Walt Disney’s 2nd animated feature after _Snow White_ and entered production in April of 1937 just months before _Snow White_ was released. However, Walt put the film on hold due to the original novel’s adult themes being grim and somber and also that animators would find it difficult to animate the Deer and the animals realistically when compared to the animals seen in _Snow White._
The running through the forest part really scared me as a kid. :) Also, have you guys watched Enchanted? It makes fun of a lot of the princess tropes that started with Snow White. But you have to remember, when this came out it was a one of a kind!
One thing I like about the prince is that unlike some Disney princes (cough *prince Philip* cough), he let her run away and put distance between them to make her feel less afraid instead of trying to grab her hand or force her to stay.
I actually dressed up as The Evil Queen from Snow White when I was younger for Halloween . Still have the costume on this day 😂😂😂
From Snow White’s perspective, the magic wishing apple thing was totally legit. She ate the apple, wished for her true love, passed out, and when she woke up he was there. Happy ending. 😂
The best part of reading the original Grimm version to kids- the huntsman kills a boar and brings back its heart. The Queen - thinking it is the heart of Snow White- has it cooked up for breakfast and eats it. 🤢😂 The look on their little horrified faces is just peak Storytelling goals 🤣👍
Eww.
Please watch "Who framed Roger Rabbit".
It's not the first feature length animated movie by a long shot. Ironically, Pinto Colvig, who in this voices Sleepy, Grumpy, and Dopey's hiccups actually made the first full length animated movie way back in 1916. It was called Creation, only five frames of it survive. Colvig's studio didn't survive WW1 and later he joined Disney and was also the original voice of Goofy and Pluto