Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 film

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 film

It is hard to imagine what a marvel Snow White was when it was released in 1937. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

It was the first full length cel animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics canon. 

Walt thought it would cost $250,000 to produce, and ended up as a then unheard of $1.5 million. Disney had to mortgage his home to get the picture finished.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was one of only two animated films to rank in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time in 1997 ranking number 49.


Directed by David Hand (supervising)
William Cottrell
Wilfred Jackson
Larry Morey
Perce Pearce
Ben Sharpsteen
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by Ted Sears
Richard Creedon
Otto Englander
Dick Rickard
Earl Hurd
Merrill De Maris
Dorothy Ann Blank
Webb Smith
Based on Snow White by
The Brothers Grimm
Starring Adriana Caselotti
Lucille La Verne
Harry Stockwell
Pinto Colvig
Roy Atwell
Music by Frank Churchill
Paul Smith
Leigh Harline
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) December 21, 1937 (1937-12-21) (premiere)
February 4, 1938 (1938-02-04) (United States)
Running time 83 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,488,423[1]
Gross revenue $184,925,486[2]