It is very interesting to know how a German fairy tale Releases as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is 1937 produced by Walt Disney Productions & released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm which is the first full-length cel-animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film.
Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears & Webb Smith were storyboard artists in SWSD. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film’s individual sequences.
Premier show of this movie was shown by Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938. It was a critical and commercial success with international earnings of $8 million. It was record for the film industry of highest-grossing sound film at the time. The popularity of the film has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Yet, it is one of the top-ten performers at the North American box office. so this is always a mystery that How a German fairy tale Releases as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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