Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

“Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful princess with hair as black as ebony and skin as white as snow…”. This classic fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers needs no introduction. It has been adapted for the screen and reinterpreted dozens, if not hundreds, of times. Animated films, live-action adaptations, television series – Snow White has even appeared in horror versions and anime. It is not without reason, however, that the 1937 version, directed by David Hand and produced by Walt Disney, holds a special place in our memory and in the history of cinema.

Groundbreaking in many respects – the first American feature-length animated film and the first cel-animated feature produced in the United States – it set the course for the legendary Walt Disney Productions studio. With it, Snow White permanently transformed American pop culture and gave rise to a long line of Disney princesses.

We invite you to rediscover this classic tale, seemingly so well known, in its original and most beautiful form: on the big screen.

Hanna Wereszczyńska

David Hand (1900–1986) – American animator, director and producer. He began his career in the 1920s at Max Fleischer’s studio and joined Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1930. Thanks to his exceptional organisational skills, he quickly became one of Walt Disney’s close collaborators and a key figure in the rapidly developing studio. He supervised the production of Disney’s first feature-length animated films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi and Dumbo, and also contributed to numerous short animated series. In 1944 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he founded the Gaumont British Animation studio.

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