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Disney and the Animated Feature: Snow White
On the timeline · around 1937 ·
What happened
On December 21, 1937, Walt Disney premiered Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated film produced in the United States and the first made in full Technicolor. Dismissed in advance by skeptics as 'Disney's Folly,' the film had absorbed years of work and a fortune in hand-drawn animation — and it became a smash hit that proved a cartoon could carry a full-length story.
Why it matters
Snow White established feature animation as a serious commercial art form, launched the Disney studio as an entertainment empire, and opened a whole branch of cinema that has flourished ever since.