In class today we watched a short youtube video on how Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was created. Being a Disney lover, I finished the video in my room and found it to be very interesting. It really showed how long of a process this film took as well as many other films that would follow.
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was the first Walt Disney film and it was created in 1937. This continues to be one of the most popular Disney movies and a favorite of many.
Yet, the process to making this movie was complex. Starting with 300 people, this movie now took about 700 different animators, musicians, writers, and many more to complete this movie.
The movie begins as a bunch of different pages, almost like a flip book telling a story. Soon after that the score is added. Then, animators copy and draw the "flip book" on transparent paper. This is when the pages are "played" and this is the rough draft of the film. There is no color and the movie is pretty much just a moving drawing.
The drawings are then moved to the ink department and the pencil is traced to ink and copied. Chemists, then, develop a wide range of colors. The new ink copies are colored in and stage setting are painted in watercolor. Each ink page now with a backdrop is photographed to make a movie. Sound is added and the orchestra played the scores, completing the film. This is the last step of making Snow White.
Much advertising goes on and eventually there is a wold premiere. Many different characters dress up to promote the new file and many come to watch. Once the movie is over, critics rave about this film in technicolor and the first of many of Walt's classics.
The movie took more than 1.5 million dollars to make. Though the price was expensive, this is one of the most memorable Disney movies of all time.
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