#snow white 1937 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

artist-issues · 9 months

Text

I Hate How She Talks About Snow White

"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "

Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.

It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)

Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."

It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.

Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.

Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.

In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.

It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.

Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?

Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.

It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.

Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?

#Snow White #Snow White and the seven dwarfs #snow #snow white 1937 #snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937 #Snow White 2024 #Rachel zegler #west side story #poc #Disney #live action Disney hate #animation history #Do not go see this movie. Do not stream this movie.#Anime #anime history

5K notes · View notes

toaverse · 7 months

Text

In case you forgot due to all this whining on Twitter and Tumblr about how “There aren’t enough women in movies!😭” and “Disney is misogynistic😭”, here’s a reminder that Disney has good female characters from the past that taught girls important lessons:

Belle teaches girls that loving to read does not make you an outcast, and that you should stand your ground but also showing compassion.

Ariel teaches girls to fight for their passions.

Megara teaches girls that a broken heart can be healed.

Jasmine teaches girls that femininity must be treated with respect, rather than as a trophy.

Mulan teaches girls that what they lack in muscles can be made up for with brains, and that women have the ability to things just as good as any man.

Snow White teaches girls to be kind to the people around them, and that nothing is free in this world.

Captain Amelia teaches girls that accepting help doesn't make you weak.

Cinderella teaches girls to stay strong through dark times and still be kind to others.

Rapunzel teaches girls to find their self-worth and reach for your dreams.

Esmeralda teaches girls to fight for what is right, and to not judge people by how they look.

Tiana teaches girls about hard work, dedication and independence.

This is why the past matters.

150 notes · View notes

pinkpinkstarlet · 13 days

Text

mecore

63 notes · View notes

nathsketch · 1 year

Photo

A day to remember! Happy 85th anniversary to the one who started it all!!

It was a masterpiece back then, and it remains magnificent after nearly nine decades! I’ll never forget the happiness I felt while going to buy it on VHS in 1994 😭

Darling Snow, the one who paved the way for all our beloved princesses (and queens) of today! Here’s one of the six pieces I created last year for Disney’s Tales of Courage and Kindness. I think I haven’t shown you this one before!

Happy 85 to the fairest of them all 🍎💛

Find me here: Instagram | Website & Portfolio

#snow white and the seven dwarfs #snow white #disney classics #the one who started it all #paper art #disney princesses #snow white 1937 #1937 #vintage movies #classic movies #early animation #princess #art #disney animation #disney art #nathsketch #artists on tumblr #disney

693 notes · View notes

disneynerdpumpkin · 4 months

Text

GUYS LOOK

LOOK

The Slave in the Magic Mirror is seen after Magnifico is sucked into his own staff!

That's so cool!!!! I only noticed this after I rewatched Magnifico's defeat

Such an amazing way to pay the Magic Mirror homage! A really cool Easter egg/reference

106 notes · View notes

soullessjack · 8 months

Text

/ mark hoffman - saw v 2008

// snow white - snow white 1937

128 notes · View notes

triple-pupil · 6 months

Text

I think I'm learning how to draw her.

#white backround #snow white 1937 #snow white #disney movies #disney #disney princess #my shit #Sweet sweet creature of a kid

73 notes · View notes

onceupona-crossover · 8 months

Text

A moodboard of Evil Queen (Snow White 1937) x Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty 1959)

Requested by: Anon

-Mod Belle

88 notes · View notes

blayeart · 3 months

Text

my Snow White redesign

#snow white #disney #remake #redesign #art #digital art #fanart #drawing #my art #girl #cute #young #disney princess #princess #snow white 1937 #disney remake #disney redesign #snow white redesign #snow white remake

44 notes · View notes

violetlunette · 1 month

Text

Ideas for Villainous Characters for your Yuusona / Ocs in Twisted Wonderland

To help fanfic writers and artists, I thought I’d make a list of characters/items that creators could use to make their own twst characters. Feel encouraged to add if you have any ideas as well! The bigger the list, the better!

These are all things that present a challenge to the heroes in the Disney films or are connected to an antagonistic force, such as the poison apple being connected to the Evil Queen, or are just shown in a wicked light, such as the vultures from the same movie who just follow the queen looking devious.

Below are things that feature from the main animated features that feature in Twst; Alice in Wonderland, The Lion King, etc. But aren’t technically taken. Other animated movies, live action, games, and etc. will get their own list.

(Someone else will have to do the sequels and remakes. I suffered the sequels enough and the remakes--well, I'd rather leave them to others.)

Alice in Wonderland:

*The King of Hearts

*The Walrus

*The Carpenter

*Any of the Flowers

The Lion King:

*The Hyenas that weren't used in the story

*The Wildebeests that killed Mufasa (Debatable as they were forced into a panic by the hyenas)

*The elephant graveyard (note: this is a location in the Savana Event)

*The fire that nearly kills Simba and whose embers give Scar an advantage

The Little Mermaid:

*Vanessa (Ursula’s other form)

*The necklace that held Ariel’s voice

*The Contract (Note: Technically used as Azul’s unique Magic)

*The Storm (beginning and end)

*The Shark

*The Chef (Debatable)

*The “unfortunate Souls” (debatable)

Aladdin:

*The Guards

*The Cave of Wonders

*The Scarab that took Jafar to the cave

*Jafar’s snake Form

*Jafar’s Genie form. (Note: Used as Jamil’s over blot)

*Iago (Debatable)

*Jafar’s Staff

*The lamp that traps Jafar in the end

*The hourglass that nearly drowns Jasmine

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

*The Vultures

*The Woods that frighten Snow White in the beginning

*The Hag Form (Note: Vil’s phantom takes the form of the hag)

*The Potion that made the Evil Queen old

**Any of the components to make the potion may work

*The Heart Box

*The raven that played witness to the potion-making

Hercules:

*The Three Fates (Note: These Gals are mentioned as superstars who are older than they look, like Lilia)

*Pain

*Panic

*Meg (debatable)

*The Hydra

*The potion that made Hercules mortal

*Any of the Titans

*The Centaur

*Any of the beasts Hercules fought during "Zero to Hero"

*The Souls of the Underworld (debatable and note: these seem to be represented as Phantoms)

Sleeping Beauty:

*Diablo (Note: Theorized to be Crowley, but no confirmation at the time of this post)

*Any of Maleficent’s minions (Note: Two are taken by Lilia and Baul)

*The Spinning Wheel

*The Thorns

*Maleficent’s Fire

*Maleficent’s staff (Note: This may be an item that appears in Chapter 7)

*The Death Curse itself (Note: In the original Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent cursed Rose to DIE. The Sleeping Curse was actually placed by Merry-weather to SAVE her. Maleficent just rolled with it to create a fate worse than death.)

39 notes · View notes

artist-issues · 9 months

Note

I'm so tired of people saying that the Prince from Snow White is a creep for kissing Snow White when he thought she was dead.

People act as if he put his tongue down her throat while she looks like a regular corpse.

Maybe I'm just more comfortable with death because of my upbringing.

There's a European tradition that you would kiss dead people goodbye. You would also wait with a dying person because dying alone was one of the most horrible ways to die.

In Poland, you would spend three days with the dead body of your relative in the house so family and friends have time to say goodbyes. We even have pictures of family members in coffins, so we could remember them.

Yeah, it's a very post-modern, historically, culturally-small-minded way to look at it.

Specifically in this movie (which is a fairy tale's fairy tale) people just...totally ignore the scene where The Prince is introduced.

Seriously and truthfully, BECAUSE the Prince only takes action in three scenes of the movie, you HAVE to take all three of them very very seriously. Because thats all there is to know about him. That's how fairy tales work: lots of information hiding under very brief, simple snippets of information. It's called nuance.

Anyway.

The Prince kisses Snow White as a culmination of their promised love for each other.

First scene he's in, he falls in love with her because of her obvious purity and he overhears her longing for someone to love her. Then she runs away because she's not sure of him, and doesn't know him. But he sings his part of the song, which is all about how he has just one heart to give, one devotion to spend, and he's choosing to give it and spend it on her if she'll have him.

And she will have him. How do we know? She sends a kiss to him on the dove. That's how the exchange ends; that's how she responds, and that's why he leaves satisfied. It's their engagement scene. They're promising their hearts to each other.

Fast-forward, the Queen messes up what might have been the natural follow-through of that engagement which is marriage by trying to kill Snow White, she's living in the woods, but she won't forget the Prince and wholeheartedly believes he'll come find her.

And the very next thing we hear about him is that he keeps his promise. He's got one heart, one love, one devotion, and it's promised to Snow White, and he will not stop searching for her. When he finds her, he's returning her kiss from their engagement scene. He thinks she's dead, but he has to finish his quest anyway. This is him, trying to keep his promise even if she's dead; he's trying to fulfill the exchange they had when they saw each other last.

It's ridiculous to assume that she needed to be awake and alive to give permission for him to kiss her; it's ignorant of the whole relationship, symbolic and literal, between these two fairy tale characters. She already sent him her kiss and her heart; he already promised to claim it; he's fulfilling the promise in that scene.

Crazy postmodern people, don't know how to take in a story. Not everything gets to have your socio-cultural lens imposed upon it.

#Snow White and the seven dwarves #little graphic there #asked #answered #true love's kiss #discourse #Snow White.Snow White 2024 #Snow White hate #Snow White and the seven dwarves 1937 #snow white 1937 #disney #classic films #meta #analysis #fairy tales #learn to read fairy tales

2K notes · View notes

ultimateanna · 6 months

Text

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 - The Evil Queen

#snow white #snow white 1937 #snow white and the seven dwarfs #snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937 #the evil queen #evil queen #walt disney

70 notes · View notes

scrtdawn · 1 year

Photo

“Make a wish into the well that's all you have to do and if you hear it echoing your wish will soon come true.

I'm wishing for the one I love to find me today.

-

One song I have but one song one song only for you.”

Gustaf Tenggren concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937.

#Snow White #Snow White 1937 #Walt Disney #Disney Classics #Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 #Gustaf Tenggren #Gustaf Tenggren concept art #disney concept art

154 notes · View notes

pinkpinkstarlet · 1 month

Text

she’s so me

#snow white #snow white 1937 #snow white and the 7 dwarfs #snow white and the seven dwarfs #coquette #coquette community #coquette aesthetic #vintage coquette #disney coquette #girlblogger #girlblog #this is a girlblog #girlhood #girlblogging

28 notes · View notes

decadent-lemon-cakes · 2 months

Text

So, I love Disney, and have this big family tree of hundreds of Disney (mostly... maybe) characters that I have been working on for years. I feel like I have finally sunk enough of my life into it that I can finally share it with a wider audience. This poll will decide the first character I share! And I'm sorry if your princess didn't show up! I only got 12 spots so I had to cut some.

35 notes · View notes

casinotrio1965 · 4 months

Text

Meet The Villain Kids: Evie | Sofia Carson | Disney Descendants

LOVE HER !

#snow white #evie descendants #disney descendants #descendants #snow white 1937

27 notes · View notes