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Snow White The film that the Disney Company claim to be the start of it all, the 1937 classic, Snow White and the seven dwarfs, has been one of the most successful theatre releases of all time. Re- released almost every decade since it?s premier, the first ever-animated feature film seems to have appealed to audiences of all generations. Synopsis The story begins in fairytale fashion, as a book opens, and the viewer can read the introduction to the film. A princess (The protagonist) imprisoned in the castle by her evil stepmother, she dreams someday a prince will rescue her. All is well until the stepmother asks her magic mirror ?Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all to which the mirror replies that she is not the fairest for Snow White has grown more fair. Angered by this she sends a huntsman to kill her stepdaughter. Instead he warns the princess and tells her to run away and never return. Snow white runs deep into the Forrest, frightened and homeless she is offered refuge at the Dwarfs cottage. At first the Queen believes Snow White to be dead after the huntsman bought back the heart of a pig, instead of Snow Whites. When she asks the magic mirror again, she is shocked to hear that the Princess is still alive. Enraged with Jealousy she concocts a spell on a red apple which when eaten will send the vict im into a deep sleep only to be awakened by loves first kiss. While the dwarfs are working in the mine, the evil Queen pays the princess a visit, disguised as an old beggar women. She offers the apple to the Snow White who takes a bite and falls into deep sleep. The dwarfs return and chase away the witch, who in desperation to get away falls off a cliff to her death. In believing she is dead, Snow... ...t entertainment went far beyond gags. Audiences had to be taken out of themselves, and transported into a fantasy world. ?At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks.. . .until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may not roll in the aisles, but that doesn?t mean that you don?t have a great picture. You have to have pathos in the thing.? Walt Disney Bibliography Understanding Animation Paul Wells Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DVD Collectors Edition Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, An art in it?s making Martin Krause and Linda Witkowski Disney discourage, producing the Magic Kingdom Edited by Eric Smoodin Serious Business Stefan Kanfer Charlie Chaplin Theodore Huff Walt Disney, Hollywood?s dark prince Marc Eliot