Evil Queen Mural at WDW

Starting a new series of blog posts featuring Snow White murals...

The Evil Queen, the Huntsman and the crow survey the scene from their mural above the exit of Snow White's Scary Adventures ride at Walt Disney World, 2009.

Hollywood Snow

As part of the Golden Anniversary celebrations of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the fictional princess was honored on June 28, 1987 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame..."for her contribution to the film industry." It is located at 6910 Hollywood Blvd. near Disney's El Capitan Theater.

Creative Commons image courtesy of Thomas Hawk's Hollywood Stars set.

Image via the Kennetti Snow White Database.

The video below is not the highest quality, but it offers a glimpse of the ceremony where such names were present as Roy E. Disney, Ward Kimball, Richard Frank and Adriana Caselotti. Even Snow White herself steps up to the podium to speak.

Video provided by sosaix

Russian Snow White On Ice

The Wild Rose Russian Ice Stars feature some of the finest professional skaters in the world with a line-up that includes Loulia Barsoukova, the 2000 Olympic gold medalist. This talented troupe is currently touring the UK with their performance of Snow White on Ice.

A similar Snow White tour occurred in 2005/2006 plus performances of Peter Pan and Cinderella on Ice.

1938 Snow White Movie Tickets

A rare find, two unused numbered tickets, one adult and one student, from a Wednesday matinee showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on April 27th, 1938--only 4 months after the movie's premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21. 1937.

Images courtesy of Main Street Mouse. Used with permission.

The adult ticket is for a center orchestra seat and cost $1.10. The student went for .55 cents. Each is from the Whittier Theater in Whittier, California. They measure 1.5"x3.5" and are single sided. Made of heavy card stock. Printed by the Globe Ticket Co., LA.

Snow White Collector Note: These tickets just recently sold on ebay for $200 (US).

Snow White's Ride Destruction

It was during the 1982-83 renovation of Fantasyland at Disneyland Resort that the photos below were taken. The demolition in progress--the original 1955 Snow White's Scary Adventures ride facade as it faced it's last days.

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Thanks to blogger Disneyland Nomenclature for posting these in his Destruction series. 

Princess and the Frog Coming to Blu-ray

See update on 3/6/2010

Blu-ray/DVD combo release date March 16, 2010.

Seven Dwarfs or Dwarves?

5 Dwarfs - 7500 Limited Edition Serigraph (1994) courtesy of BlackWolf Images

Dwarves at Bilbo's House by Edarlein

Question...

If the plural for dwarf is dwarves then why is the fairytale called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

Answer...

Dwarfs was actually the original plural for dwarf. It's one of those irregular plurals like roofs.

Until...

J. R. R. Tolkien popularized dwarves. He intended the changed spelling to differentiate the "dwarf" fantasy race in his novels from the cuter and simpler beings common in fairy tales, but his usage has since spread.

Multiple astronomical dwarf stars and multiple non-mythological short human beings, however, remain dwarfs.

Source: IsisRain in response to the above question on a Snow White fanpop site.
 

J.R.R. Tolkien,Houghton Mifflin

Snow White Walking in Park

Snow White in Apples

Food artist Prudence Staite used 14 different varieties of apples to make these scenes to commemorate the recent Blu-ray release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. "It was fantastic to play around with such well-known, iconic imagery. The apple is such a big part of the story, it seemed right to use it to recreate some of the Disney magic in the works."

Images via BBC.

"Still Looking for My Prince" Tee

Snow White Jeweled Tee by Disney Couture, Item # 57827M from the Disney Catalog, original price $79.95 US. No longer available.

Valentine & Sons 'Snow White' Postcards, #4170 - #4171

Two postcards from a series published by Valentine and Sons, Ltd., Dundee, Scotland, circa 1938...

Postcard #4170, "Snow White and Her Friends Outside the Dwarfs' Cottage."

Postcard #4171,"Good Morning! said Snow White to the Dwarfs and Animals."

Postcard images via BeBrightSalesToo.

Snow White Audio: Free Download

Black-n-white illustration by Walter Crane (1886)

Candlelight Stories has made available a free MP3 download of their audio production of the Grimm Brother's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

In this full 30-minute production you will hear a cast of characters, completely original orchestral music, songs, and fantastic sound effects. We tell the story in a way that is unlike any you have heard before.  Candlelight Stories

This production is really quite good with its own unique twists. Fine voice work and original songs add a fresh spin on the classic tale. The voicing of the Evil Queen is majestic, the magic mirror sings, and the dwarfs even have their own original mining song. You can listen to the entire Snow White tale here.

Lotte Reiniger: Queen of the Silhouette

Fourteen years prior to the premiere of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the world's first feature-length animated film, work had begun on another "world's first" animated feature. It was 1923. Lotte Reiniger, a young German filmmaker, set out to create The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a film based on "The One Thousand and One Nights", but rather than hand drawing every frame of her characters, she cut-out silhouette paper puppets with movable joints.

Reiniger worked for three years on the film with her husband Carl Koch as well as animator Bertold and background artist Walter Rutman. 

The paper cutouts were jointed using wires and delicately arranged on top of a lightbox, where it was photographed frame by frame.
Source: ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

The film was finished in 1926 and featured a complete symphonic score by Wolfgang Zeller.

An early example of a multiplane camera that was later developed by Walt Disney

The film was released in 2002 to DVD which also includes Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film, a 60-minute documentary by Katja Raganelli.

In 2008, Lotte Reiniger, The Fairy Tale Films was released on PAL DVD in the UK and includes such classics as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and The Frog Prince.

Patricia Zohn on Walt Disney's Ink and Paint Ladies (Vanity Fair, March 2010)

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Ink and Paint on Pinocchio

See the original article online at Vanity Fair, March 2010.

Alphonse Mucha Snow White Poster

Utilizing the Art Nouveau work of artist Alphonse Mucha, this poster was created in 1996 to advertise a Czech production of Snow White. Measures 20 1/2" x 39".

Image via Posters Please, Inc.

Snow Nouveau Continued

In the footsteps of Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha, artists Ed Irizarry and Enrique Pita's hard-to-find 2008 Disney Art Nouveau Collection.

Black and White Snow White image adapted by Jess Park from original by Irizarry & Pita

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Each princess is patterned after an original Art Nouveau painting by Mucha...

A. Mucha, Poetry, 1898

Irizarry & Pita, Aurora, 2008

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A. Mucha, 
Guide Officiel Des Sections Autrichiennes De L'Exposition Universelle De Paris , 1900

Irizarry & Pita, Jasmine, 2008

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A. Mucha, Dance, 1898

 Irizarry & Pita, Ariel, 2008

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A. Mucha, La Plume, circa 1898

Irizarry & Pita, Cinderella, 2008

See more of the Disney Art Nouveau Collection at mdmbrightside