Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

A 1937 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Its feature-length hand-drawn animation and musical storytelling helped establish animated films as theatrical features.

Snow White: A princess in a European fairy tale whose jealous stepmother orders her death. The film adapts her tale, reshaping its characters and events for animation.
Traditional animation: Animation made by creating successive images by hand, usually on paper or transparent cels. The film’s moving characters were drawn frame by frame using this method.
Snow White (Grimm fairy tale): A fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm about a princess endangered by her stepmother. This tale provided the film’s principal narrative source.
Academy Honorary Award: An Academy Award presented to recognize extraordinary distinction in filmmaking. The Academy gave the film a special award in 1939, including one full-size and seven miniature statuettes.
Brothers Grimm: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German scholars who collected and published folk tales. Their version of “Snow White” supplied the film’s central fairy-tale plot.
Animation cel: A transparent sheet on which an animation drawing is painted for compositing over a background. Separate cels let animators layer characters over painted scenery.
Walt Disney Productions: The film-production company that made Walt Disney’s animated films before its 1986 renaming as Walt Disney Feature Animation. The studio developed and produced the feature, expanding its animation operation to meet its demands.
Animated feature film: A feature-length motion picture made primarily through animation. Its commercial success helped establish this format as a viable theatrical production.
Walt Disney: An American animator and film producer who co-founded the Walt Disney Company. He championed the feature when colleagues and observers doubted audiences would accept it.
Storyboarding: Planning a visual narrative through sequential drawings of key scenes. Storyboards helped shape the film’s scenes, pacing, and transitions before animation.

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