Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs [DVD]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one hour and twenty-three minutes and premiere in theaters on December 21, 1937. This would be the first full length animated film and the one that started it all for Walt Disney. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs tell the story of Snow White who is the beautiful step-daughter to the evil and vain Queen; full name is never given in the movie. The Queen dresses Snow White in rags and makes her work as a scullery maid. Everyday the Queen asked the Magic Mirror who was the fairest of them all and as long as the Magic Mirror told the Queen she was one sexy babe then Snow White got to live another. One day the Magic Mirror told the Queen she was no longer the fairest and the land and that Snow White was the new beauty babe in town. This upset the Queen to no end so she devised a plot to kill Snow White. The Queen tells the Huntsman to take Snow White to the hillside to pick some flowers and to kill her and to bring Snow White's heart back as proof of the jobs. The Huntsman could not bring himself to do the job and to tell Snow White to flee and never come back. Snow White finds shelter in the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. The Seven Dwarfs discover Snow White in their cottage and decides that she can live with them, mainly because she can make gooseberry pie. Grumpy is the only who want her to scram because in his opinion women are nothing but trouble. To some husbands and boyfriends that statement may be true.Well the Queen finds out from the Magic Mirror that the Huntsman did not do his job and as the old saying goes: "if you want something done right then do it yourself". The Queen turns herself into an old Peddler and creates a poison apple that will make Snow White take one long nap. The Queen, now an old hag, finds Snow White and tricks her into taking a bite out of the apple and Snow White is now in snooze land. The animals of the forest rush to warn the Seven Dwarfs and it is Grumpy that leads the charge to save Snow White. The Dwarfs chase and traps the Queen to a mountain cliff. The Queen tries to loosen a boulder to kill the Dwarfs, but a bolt of lightning strikes the cliff and she fall to her death; and you the folks out there already knows the ending to the story.The only thing I did not like was the extra DVD that came along with the movie. The case itself is thicker then your usual DVD case. The information was bit overkill and Disney could have just done a one hour documentary instead of all the details listed below. Also what is not included in this special two DVD set are movie preview for which I don't mind at all. Barring the negativity about the second DVD, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a great movie to own and gets an AAAAA+++++.Disc 1PlayChapter SelectionSet UpBonus Features1. Guided Tours2. Still the Fairest of them All: The Making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs3. Audio Commentary4. Goddess of Spring-Animated Short5. Heigh-Ho: Sing-Along Songa. Sing-Alongb. Karaoke6. Dopey's Wild Mine Ride' Game7. Some Day My Prince Will Come: Performed by Barbra Streisand8. DVD-ROMGuided Tours1. Tour 12. Tour 2Disc 2Snow White's Wishing Well1. History2. Storyboard To Film Comparisonsa. Introductionb. The Forest Chasec. Cleaning Housed. The Dwarfs Chase the Witche. The Queen's OrderThe Queen's Castle1. Art and Design2. Visual Development3. Layouts and Backgroundsa. About Layouts and Backgroundsb. Layouts And Backgrounds Gallery4. Camera And Testsa. Excerpt from "The Story of Silly Symphony"b. Excerpt from "Trick of Our Trade"c. Camera Tests5. Animationa. Voice Talentb. Live Action Referencec. Excerpt From Tricks of Our Traded. Character Designsi. Snow White and The Dwarfsii. The Queen/The Peddleriii. The Huntsman/The Prince/The AnimalsThe Queen's Dungeon1. Abandoned Conceptsa. Introductionb. Snow White Meets the Princec. Some Day My Prince Will Come-Fantasy Versiond. The Prince Is Captured2. The RestorationThe Dwarf's Mine1. Deleted Scenesa. Introductionb. The Witch at the Cauldronc. The Bedroom Argumentd. Music In You Soupe. The Lodge Meetingf. Building A Bed2. Original RKO Opening and End Credits3. Disney Through the Decadesa. Introduction\Trailerb. 1930s\Trailerc. 1940s\Trailerd. 1950s\Trailere. 1960s\Trailerf. 1960s\Trailerg. 1970s\No Trailer Availableh. 1980s\Traileri. 1990s\Trailerj. A New Century\TrailerThe Dwarf's Cottage1. The Premierea. The Los Angeles Premiereb. Original Premiere Radio Broadcast (Audio Only)2. Trailersa. 1937 Trailer #1b. 1937 Trailer #2c. 1944 Trailerd. 1958 Trailere. 1967 Trailerf. 1987 Trailerg. 1993 Trailerh. 2001 Trailer3. Publicitya. Scrapbookb. The Premierec. Pressbookd. Merchandisee. Posters4. A Trip Through Walt Disney Studios5. How Cartoons Are Made6. Vintage Audioa. Lux Radio Theater September 28, 1936b. Lux Radio Theater December 20, 1937c. Mickey Mouse Theater Of The Air January 9, 19387. Radio Commercialsa. 1958i. Radio Spot #1ii. Radio Spot #2iii. Radio Spot #3b. 1967i. Radio Spot #1ii. Radio Spot #2iii. Radio Spot #3iv. Radio Spot #48. Songsa. Silly Song (Recording Session)b. Deleted Song: You're Never Too Old To Be Young

While all Disney movies are in great quality I was disappointed that this was an animated movie. The slipcover shows the evil witch as Gal Gadot but she is not in the movie. This is a different movie from what is presently being shown in movie houses.

Awesome Dvd. The picture and audio were both top notch. And I was surprised to see that there were a few extras on the disc. There are several deleted scenes from the fillm, which were interesting to watch.

Great memories

Disney's first "Platinum Edition" DVD is a terrific 2-disc set that every DVD fan should keep for all eternity. (I received an early, free copy from Amazon which allowed me to review it before the Oct 9th release date. This is a promotion by both Amazon and Buena Vista.) The THX-certified video transfer of the movie is blemish-free, almost always sharp, and has only an occasional softness perhaps due to age. Colors look splendid. The sound is clean and without a scratch, although some dialogs lack detail. The 5.1 audio remix provides mildly effective separation and bass for the background music. Otherwise, it is neither better nor worse than the included original mono soundtrack.The supplements on the first disc includes a 40-minute retrospective documentary that actually serves as a nice introduction of the supplements on the second disc. For nearly every aspect mentioned in the documentary, the extras on the second disc cover at length. There is an audio commentary track by historian John Canemaker that includes contemporary recordings of Walt reminiscing about the difficulties and fortunes during the making of the film. The commentary reveals that Deanna Durbin was once considered for the voice of Snow White, but she was deemed "too old". Canemaker, besides introducing each of Walt's recordings, also provides excellent scene-by-scene analyses. After the movie is over, Michael Eisner introduces Barbara Streisand's decidedly more mature rendition of "Somewhere My Prince Will Come". The first disc also includes four games -- two for set-top players, two as DVD-ROM content.The second disc contains a large amount of archival material of the movie. There are over 400 stills (all high-quality scans) of pencil tests, backgrounds, layouts, character designs, photos of the voice talents, photos of the production, the premiere, the 1937 pressbook, merchandise, and posters. There are quite a bit of video content as well. Notable is a new, nicely conceived, 40-minute segment called "Disney Through the Years"; it chronicles SNOW WHITE's theatrical releases in every decade (all trailers are shown) as well as Disney's accomplishments through the years. There are the original credit sequences with the RKO logo. There are deleted scenes that were fully animated and dubbed, one of which is a spectacular soup-eating scene. There are scenes that were conceptualized but were abandoned before animation, such as a dream sequence for one of Snow White's songs. There is a segment about the film's restorations in 1987, '93, and 2001. There are also vintage video of voice actors, models for live action references, techniques used in animation (two excerpts of Disney's "Tricks of our Trade" TV show are included).And there is more! There is a half-hour live radio broadcast of the film's premiere in which many celebrities are interviewed. There is another half-hour radio program in 1938 in which several songs from the movie are performed. There are two 4-minute radio interviews of Walt Disney by Cecil B. DeMille, one of which was recorded on the eve of the premiere. There are eight radio commercials from the 50s and 60s. There are recordings of two deleted songs, one of which, we are told, were only recently discovered in Disney's archives. There are also text screens about the film's production and Walt's life and career. A nice inclusion is the English translation of the Grimms Brothers' "Snow White."Future Platinum Edition DVDs will include BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, THE LION KING, BAMBI, THE JUNGLE BOOK, CINDERELLA, THE LITTLE MERMAID, LADY AND THE TRAMP and 101 DALMATIANS. It disappoints me that DUMBO will not be a Platinum Edition (it will come out Oct 21st as a "Gold Edition" DVD). It irks me even more that only one Platinum Edition DVD will be sold each year for only a limited time; thereafter it will be put on a TEN-YEAR moratorium. This will no doubt lead to buying frenzies, so run, don't walk, to your nearest personal computer and order this SNOW WHITE DVD right away. I do not oppose releasing one Platinum DVD per year, since I understand it takes time and care to produce these great discs. But I do oppose Disney's long-standing policy of putting their video releases on moratorium for long, long periods. Their rationale has been that if people own the movie on video, they may not want to see it in theaters. Not true. Seeing this spectacular SNOW WHITE DVD has actually increased my desire to see the film in a theater.

Well everybody's heard of this movie and if you haven't this is the time to purchase or rent it is one of the best movies and it's been digitized so it's now in 4K with great sound and picture Love it tremendously five stars if not more