When this movie was first introduced it was called "Disney's Folly" because critics in 1937 didn't think anyone would want to sit for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Snow White. According to wikipedia, it was the first feature film that was produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first produced by Walt Disney, and the first to be considered a Walt Disney Animated Classic.
Answers.com states that the film took three years, 1.5 million dollars, and the talents of 570 artists to make. It ended up making 8.5 million dollars in gross rentals during the depression era - that's pretty amazing. Apparently, the first thought was to make Snow White appear as a more "Betty Boop" type of character, but then the artists decided to make the human figures more realistic and play more with the imagery of the dwarfs. This was supposed to work to grab the attention of both adults and children, much like the animated films today.
Wikipedia states that Snow White was one of only two animated movies to rank in the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American films of all time in 1997 (the other was Fantasia), ranking number 49. In the 2007 list it was ranked number 34. In 2008, AFI named it the greatest animated film of all time.
Today, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has grossed approximately $66,596,803 (wikipedia). I never knew the power that this movie had, I watched it as a kid, but I was still shocked to see that just last year AFI named it the greatest animated film of all time. All in all, I still enjoy watching the movie even past my childhood years, and maybe that proves its lasting quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)
http://www.answers.com/topic/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs
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