SNOW WHITE

 

Walt Disney’s Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on December 21, 1937, and was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 4, 1938. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith from the German fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey (1905-1971), Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film’s individual sequences.

  

Snow White was one out 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 (the other being Fantasia) , ranking number 49. It achieved a higher ranking (#34) in the list’s 2007 update, this time being the only traditionally animated film on the list.

In 1989, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”  

 

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

 

Beauty and the Beast is an American animated film, the 30th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. The film was originally premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on November 13th, 1991 by Walt Disney Pictures.

 

This film, one of the best known of the Disney studio’s films, is an adaptation of the well-known fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, about a beautiful woman kept in a castle by a horrific monster. It is the first and only full-length animated feature film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Heightening the level of performance in the era known as the Disney Renaissance (1989-1999, beginning with The Little Mermaid and ending with Tarzan), all animated films following its release have been influenced by its new use of 3D technology.

 

Beauty and the Beast ranked #22 on the American Film Institute’s list of best musicals and #34 on its list of the best romantic American movies. On the list of the greatest songs from American movies, Beauty and the Beast ranked #62. In 2002, Beauty and the Beast was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” On October 8th, of the same year, Walt Disney Home Entertainment released the film as a 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD.

   

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CINDERELLA

  

One of Disney’s most popular creations, Cinderella was his twelve cartoon movie. This cartoon is very famous especially because of the story’s popularity. It was first presented on February 15, 1950, and both young and old audiences love this old story. It is the story of a young, poor girl who met her true love, a Prince, grace to her fairy good mother.

This cartoon was directed by Clyde Geronomi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, who adapted Charles Perrault’ tale and added it a beautiful music.

This was one of the “classical” cartoons made by Walt Disney, but also consisted in a great risk, because of the period of time when it was produced: short after World War 2.

  

This was the first great Disney project since Bambi, in 1942. Different by other cartoons, Disney added in Cinderella few ideas which are not presented in Perrault’s tale. Usual a cartoon is a short version of a classical published tale, but in Cinderella Walt Disney proved once again that he knows what the audience likes and wants to see, so he changed and added characters there.

As Disney used to work, almost the entire movie was prepared by actors, playing with small puppets and sceneries, before the first line appeared in the cartoonists’ drawing.

Disney invested 3 million dollars in this movie but, fortunately, Cinderella was a real success from the beginning, both for the audience and for the reviewers.

The former Disney‘s success was with Snow White (1937), and Walt Disney was closed to a real insolvency those times.

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You can read Cinderella/The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault, at http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html#perrault