1937 - The Walt Disney Company (2024)

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1937 Disney Studios develops a sophisticated multiplane camera that simultaneously shoots several levels of cels and backgrounds and gives depth to its films. The Studio uses it in a “Silly Symphony,” The Old Mill, and then in Disney's first feature-‐ length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Box office

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first feature-length animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Early in 1925, Disney hired an ink artist, Lillian Bounds. They married in July of that year, at her brother's house in her home town of Lewiston, Idaho.

Roy O. Disney, who after Walt's death oversaw the building and financing of Walt Disney World, died in late 1971, and for the next decade the Company was led by a team including Card Walker, Donn Tatum, and Ron Miller—all originally trained by the Disney brothers.

1937: Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, debuting the very first Disney princess with Snow White herself. Voiced by Adriana Caselotti, she's incredibly of her time (i.e. dated af).

Disney would not make its first color picture for the popular Mickey Mouse series, but rather the distinctive and often experimental series of stand-alone short subjects, the Silly Symphonies. Directed by Burt Gillett, the chosen short was a tale of plants and animals, Flowers and Trees (1932).

They were given an official number in the franchise line-up based on the chronological order in which their films were released, starting with Snow White as the first and original Disney Princess and Cinderella as the second followed by Aurora and so on.

The first commercially produced film in natural color was A Visit to the Seaside (1908).

Fawn Veerasunthorn, “Wish” codirector (her first job at Disney was storyboarding “Frozen”), said that the prospect of making the movie in this new style was daunting. “We have done some experimentation with watercolor before in the past on short films,” Veerasunthorn said.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first feature length film to be produced using cel animation. A celluloid (or cel) is a transparent sheet used in the process of hand-drawn animation.

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“See for yourself what the genius of Walt Disney has created in his first full length feature production,” proclaimed the original trailer for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released on February 4, 1938.

Flowers and Trees, Disney's first full-color cartoon and first Academy Award® winner for Cartoon Short Subject, debuts.

In the summer of 1935, at a time when he was working on a revolutionary new project, a full-length animated feature film (Snow White), Walt Disney and his brother Roy, accompanied by their wives, embarked on a two-month European grand tour. Walt was a notorious workaholic, which is the main reason Roy had talked him ...

In April 1940, Disney Productions had its initial public offering, with the common stock remaining with Disney and his family. Disney did not want to go public but the company needed the money. Shortly before Snow White's release, work began on the company's next features, Pinocchio and Bambi.