I wish the animation industry was still like this, or even in the 90's when they blended hand drawn stuff with the 3D stuff. Nothing beats the look of a well done hand drawn/ painted animated movie.
Well, Japanese animation industry is still mainly involved 2D, or to say hand-drawn animation today, but 3D technique is also applied when dealing with background or cars, something like that
2D and 3D are both charming in their own ways, if done correctly. Blending 2D drawing animation with 3D CGI is a unique idea by creators. The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tarzan and Treasure Planet are the biggest examples! :) 3D animation also has charm as long as you utilize them correctly. Just look at Toy Story, that first movie from Pixar still looks charming for a 90’s movie with the limitations of its time. ^^
It’s funny how the animation in this movie is fantastic even in today’s standards. In fact, the animation is better than most animated movie these days. It’s so fluid and well animated.
I like both 2D and 3D animation but it’s true that hand drawn animation needs a comeback especially in America, Japan at least has anime but in here we’ve got nothin since the 2000s
Walt Disney was just 65 years of age when he died of cancer in 1966. Had he not been a heavy smoker, who knows what he might have gone on to accomplish? Rest in peace, Walt.
I just want to say that they have the multi-plane camera and a lot of original concept art and animation cels at Disney family museum in San Francisco. If anyone happens to be going to San Francisco, make sure to stop by. It’s an amazing place.
The first animated movie my parents brought me to,what a beautiful memory... thanks for sharing that video,it has always been on of my biggest desire to go to the Walt Disney Studios and get a look behind the curtains to see how they work to make all those drawings and bring them to life.. What a monstrous job it was then comparing to all the technology they use now a days ,just WOWWOWWOW 🥰😍🤩💋💖💗
Rest in Peace Marge Champion as the dancing reference for the dancing scene of Snow White dancing with the dwarfs. Thank You I really do love your dancing that really bring the dancing Snow White character to life I enjoyed that. We will miss you.
That was Shirley Temple , one of the most popular and biggest stars of the thirties and from 1935 til 1938 number one at the box-office! She made a fortune for her studio , the 20th.Century Fox ! As a young adult she made only a few further movies before retiring completely from the movie industry after her first marriage and becoming a politician for the Republican party. During the seventies and the early nineties she served the USA as ambassador in Ghana and Tchechoslovacia.👍
Watching my copy of Snow White on Laserdisc, with the original non-digital soundtrack, and a print directly off of the film itself, is a special treasure of mine. The cleaning of the negatives down to hand picking off of imbedded particles of dust and dirt, gives me the closest experience that was first enjoyed and amazed by the public. And the original attempt at surround sound in Fantasia is just awesome to experience. These folks were really pushing hard into the future of film as we now know it. And all with their bare hands.
This film was groundbreaking for cinema itself and for 1937, it was incredible. The quality and the soft colours are easy on the eyes of the viewer and were such a dramatic departure from the cartoon shorts that people had come to associate with Disney's works. The insight and comparison to the 'Goddess of Spring' is a key and fascinating point. I like how this documentary mentions the various international releases of the film, and how the animators accommodated the names of the dwarfs in the respective languages. One aspect that is not mentioned in this documentary is regarding the scene in which the Wicked Queen drinks the potion and then transforms into a witch was cut from some international releases (I think in Sweden, for one) of the movie; for it was deemed too frightening.
Beautiful documentary! Ive always loved Snow White, its really a work of fine art...What we cherish about Disney is his whole style, in every cartoon it presents a dreamy and fun fantasy of a perfect world thatll always take us back to our childhood
Walt Disney was a genius and always will be , the amount of work back then is amazing, 1,500 different shades of colour! 😱 Disney is still loved today, its still a massive part of my life 💕 The saddest Disney death will always be mufasa, there was no magic true love kiss for him , he was dead 💔 always makes me cry 😢
The concept art pieces are just exquisite! Look at that @16:52, look at the backlighting, shadows, and the general Disney feel, tone, and warmth, all in that monochrome carbon/crayon concept art piece. Wow.
@@tet7497 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣no I'm telling ye, have you seen some of the disney channel stars singing the old disney songs. Absolutely annihilated them🤣🤣🤣 check out Emily Osment singing once upon a dream.. aahhhhh😱😱😱😱😱😱really terrible my friend😢😢😢😢 I wish we could bring back a little of this into the new disney movies. 😍😍😍
As I grew up poor, I was never able to see the whole movie when it was re-released to theaters. To my memory, it was never shown on TV except in "teaser" bits. Obviously, it will not be shown on RU-vid. Now I'm thinking of buying a DVD copy. The animators were real artists. The animation and backgrounds were so well done!
It's such a wonderful form of art, cartoon (animated film), this work and talent all by hand, without computer techniques. Drawings by hand are still the best, no computer animation can catch up to it.
That's what I always thought. They painted over films of real people. Also I'm sure one of the Gulliver movies had Gulliver as a real man painted over. Not Disney though, it was Fleischer. It was just too realistic. His behaviour and movements. He reminds me of a famous, very handsome white actor in the 1940s with the very deep, deep voice of a Jamaican man. I'll see if Google can help me to remember the name of the actor whom I'm thinking of... I Googled famous handsome white male movie actor 1940s and as soon as I saw George Raft, I remembered George Sanders. That's the one I'm thinking of. The cartoon reminds me of George Sanders ♥️ 🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
Interesting Fact: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is actually NOT the first animated film ever. The true earliest surviving animated feature film is The Adventures of Prince Achmed from 1926, eleven years before Snow White. It is a German silent film that utilized stop-motion cut-out animation and was also directed by a woman, Lotte Reiniger. Although Snow White was the first animated feature produced in America and the first to use hand drawn animation as its medium. Now, before anyone goes pointing fingers at Walt Disney for claiming Snow White was the first feature-length cartoon, keep in mind that The Adventures of Prince Achmed had a very limited U.S. run, by all accounts, it was only shown once in the U.S. for a very brief amount of time at an art center in New York City in 1931. So it's quite likely that Walt and his contemporaries had never even heard of Reiniger or her work.
a companion piece to this documentary, a short doc Disney put out detailing the two Restorations done on " Snow White," states that they had to restore"all 186,000 of the original cels" in order to bring the film back to its original appearance. 186,000? to a layman this may sound like a very large number, but With Snow White clocking in at well over an hour, that estimate seems very low especially when one considers the quality and fluidity of the full, not limited animation utilized in the film. It's certainly far less then one per second; get this figure is put out by the studio itself. There must have been more than 186000 cells used in the production of this film.
The fight in the bedroom: Is this possible? Did they sneak this scene into my version of this film? I recall seeing this scene in color on our television!
My favourite part of this was the room where they recored the sound affects it just looked so fun and when I saw on a old dvd how they made them its what I wanted to do when I was little
You know what Disney movie *genuinely* made me cry? Dumbo. That movie is the saddest movie ever, I seriously don’t think I cried that hard at any movie before, animated or not.
27:58 Oh my God!! Look at this huge construction! The same 3d effect can be achieved today in After Effects, on a simple notebook. You don't even need a 3d software for it.
" Everybody in the world was once a child. When planning a new picture, we don't think of grown ups and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep inside every one of us. Maybe the world has made us forget, and maybe our pictures can help recall." Walt Disney
jhibbitt1 Well, how do you expect cartoons to be made in the 1930s, you moronic idiot?! Your statement is one of the most foolish and stupid I ever came across! 😠😠😠😠😠
I remember when my grandma told me of the time she first saw this movie. She told me the audience cried at Snow White's funeral. Heck, even I cried when I first saw it. Only Disney can make such emotional moving films. There won't be another movie like this one!
My father was born in 1945, so obviously he didn't see this when it came out. However, he saw the reissue that played in theaters in 1948. I asked how that experience was. "Oh, it was incredible. First animated film on the big screen. The evil witch was scary. I got scared when she pops up in the window."
Disney lost it's magic a long time ago. The leading actress of the live action remake of Snow White openly hates the original and mentions it whenever she is given a chance.
@@nicolle2126 go to Amazon and look up the art of _____ any disney movie and they have it. There are thousands of em. I have tangled. Zootopia and inside out
@@MarshmallowSketches i had no idea they had an art book for snow white, thank man! ((also good on you for replying to my 2 year old comment, much appreciated))
I hate when people diss like Snow White, sleeping beauty or like Cinderella because they all fall in love? Don’t get me wrong I love the all the brave Princess, but they started it all appreciate them too they just don’t fall inlove with men? They all have a storyline other than falling in love
Disney has no heart or passion for movies anymore. It's all for the sake of profit, not for the fact that it's fun to do or exciting to do. Ward commented on this when Walt proposed doing Snow White, 'You couldn't turn us (animators) off. We were excited about it.' I get zero excitement from the company anymore. They don't do animated fairytales, they do modern tales with modern humor that literally is not what Disney was about in the beginning. They don't do it for children like Walt wanted.
My grandmother watched Snow White when it came out in theaters. She said it was so scary she wet her pants (she was maybe 6-7 years old at the time.) I heard a story about how upholstered seats at the theaters needed to be replaced because so many kids were wetting their pants. It speaks to how dramatic and powerful the animated movie was. As they mentioned in the video, the film brought animation at least 20 years further in to the future in just 2 years time. Disney was an exceptional storyteller, performer and leader in the industry. A lot of people I know still fear the Snow White witch. As adults. That’s saying a lot 😱
Narrator and actress Angela Lansbury is lovely to listen too. Stunning viewing! Truly inspirational! Mind-blowing! So much work! So many people! So many layers! So much investment! Oh my! This was a true eye-opener. Thoroughly enjoyable. The way they animated depth using layers of glass and how they used real-life dancing people to provide movement for the animators (a bit like they do today with suited individuals) is superb. I watched as a child 35 years later on TV. I love it! Thank you for sharing! Highly recommend watching this historic making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
I can honestly say I was raised on a steady diet of Disney. Today, 61 years later, I'm a loving, doting, wife, mother, and grandmother. I don't know how much influence early, decent cartoons had on me, but I do see how sinister and awful most everything is on TV and at the movies and on social media is now. Heaven help our young people today!
true, most cartoons and 'children's' films that come out today aren't as beautifully made as they once were, you can really see how much work Disney but into their films. Disney didn't just appeal to children, it appealed to everyone, I can go back and watch Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Fantasia and all the other Disney classics and enjoy them just as much as I did when I was younger, also, some kids movies and cartoons like to pander to the audience, I am all for representation of different cultures but the way some shows do it is just awful.
Being an artist myself, & having known animator, Ward Kimball - this is my all time favorite Disney, along with "Sleeping Beauty". Both brought animation up to fine art. Great stories Ward told me about the studio & working with Walt! Great seeing these pencil tests again. True artistry without the computer!
You should write down the stories Ward told you! What a priceless experience. I have wished time and again that I could've talked to any one of these animation greats.
When I was in kindergarten my teacher asked "can anyone name a story that has the number 7 in it?'' And one kid said "The 7 pigs" I answered Snow White and the 7 dwarfs and then she read the story to us
@@Sunshine-zm1fx well their REMAKING ALL THEIR ANITMATED CLASSICS in to live action their basically saying GIVE US YOUR MONEY YOU USLESS BASTEIRS sure the mcu is great and their starwars is okay but their miking those franchises to but their miking starwars the most but let me ask this would you ranther have somthing that is good and original or have the samething over and over?
@@Sunshine-zm1fx It depends on your set of values. If all you care about is money, then they're doing great. But Disney has taken a hit to its reputation for making a live action movie followed by another live action movie. And they are getting worse and worse responses from the audience. Take "Mulan" live action film for instance that is almost universally hated. "Dumbo" and "The Lion King" are considered to be unnecesary remakes that don't add anything. Don't get me wrong, Walt loved cash himself, but he also wanted audiences to like his films. And while he was an innovator, the company seems to be standing still. You'll understand me better once every possible Disney Renessaince 2D animated feature film will have been remade into live action.
There's an animator in Tokyo Japan, named Hayao Miyazaki, who people respect like a modern day Walt Disney. His style of animation is very similar to Disney's Snow White. It's very flowing, emotional, and uplifting. You'll laugh, you'll cry, etc. He's very very good. He and his team of animators have created some beautiful animated movies. Howl's Flying Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Monoke, and many others.
I don’t think he used any computer generated animation until recently. Up until I think 3-4 years ago all his stuff was water colors and hand done. Love his stuff.
And to think the live action Snow White, rachel zegler, called this 1937 movie a cartoon. The cartoon is her and her actions. What a disgrace she is and may the live action movie fail in all its wokeness. She has no idea what a feat this was for animation.and disney has fallen from grace for their actions. What a shame for a once great studio. Maybe one day the prince will come to rescue it from the wickedness of total wokeness failure.
i remember watching it as a child, it is still one of my best loved disney films, along with Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, the true classics. Because not only is it a classic from the beauty of the drawings but also you can feel so much love and incredible talent go into it, that is why it will live on hundreds more years in future for future generations.
And how sad that Disney's hell-bent on a remake of this is guaranteed to destroy the legacy of this classic, which was the standard by which all other full-length animated films would be judged.
You gotta appreciate this, the way they made this film, going through so much struggle, and overcoming obstacles to complete the very first full length animated picture!
Such a lovely documentary, how awesome to see how this movie was made. The amount of work and effort it took... it’s amazing. Well done Walt. I never realized how popular this film was back in the 30’s, but that’s only because we’re not around back then to witness it. I’m sure it was as popular as Frozen in those days if not more. And I’m surprised no one mentioned Angela Lansbury doing the narration for this documentary. It was wonderful hearing her voice here. So much nostalgia!
Shanthini Mahendran I was going to, but say it referring to her by one of her characters such as Mrs Potts from Beauty and the Beast or Eglantine Price from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
@Harry Royle I didn't mean in the video, I meant in the comment section. I know it's credited in the vid, but not a lot of people in the comments mentioned her lovely voice.
Truly amazing that Mr. Walt had everything with musicals figured out in his mind before even breaking the news to his animators and letting them dictate and piece together the feature film, a true genius and I am glad God gave him such talents! Generations will enjoy Disney movies.
It shocked me to know that they had trouble to animate the human body realistic, so much that they had to cut down the prince's appearence! I would have loved to see those scenes... It also fascinated me the part when they realice they actually care for real for the character of the princess... Now our days, snimation is well known, and this happens to every author: my comic teacher told me a character is not well done 'till you can visualice it habing a real-like conversation with you...
infinityrose92 “Male humans are the hardest to animate” I wonder why that is. Is it because you can exaggerate female features (eyes, waist), but not male features?
I study animation and yes, in our anatomy class. Our professors often gives us male models (with multiple poses) because it was way harder compared to a woman's body to draw.
@@beethovensfidelio Partly because of the exaggeration, but also because a cartoony man can't be taken seriously as a character unless the idea was to make him a joke to begin with.
The human body is hard to animate because it is always in constant movement. I also read that Disney artists found hands hard to do as well. Five fingers were hard to do.. That's why Mickey mouse has three fingers and a thumb. Easy to animate.
