Life Magazine (50th Anniversary - 1987)

The April 1987 "special issue" of LIFE Magazine was dedicated to Hollywood and the movies. The bottom front cover read...

"James Bond at 25, Snow White at 50, Hollywood at 100"

The 4-page Snow White article highlights some anecdotes from the making of the film and supplies some nice images of the deleted scene drawings.







The Table of Contents shows a preliminary Snow White sketch of the soup-eating scene...

Table of Contents

Featured article...

Later in the magazine was this advertisement for the re-release of the film...in 15 Languages and 60 Countries.

Commemorative Plates (50th Anniversary - 1987)

Grab your plate for another helping of Golden Anniversary goulash. This time the featured entrée is the plate itself...

Anniversary 'insignia' plate from the Disney Collection (a service of Grolier Enterprises). Made of porcelain in Japan. Limited edition of 9500. Approximately 7 1/2" in diameter. Original retail price $42.50 (USD) plus shipping.

An ad appeared in the Fall 1987 Disney News magazine...

Plate Ad. Image courtesy of the Raymond Collection. Used with permission.

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The Disney Collection silver plate with gold center. Limited edition of 9500, stamped on back. Measures 8 1/2". Came with COA. Green box sports both the Golden Anniversary logo and that of The Disney Collection.

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A Schmid collectors plate made in Korea. Limited edition of 5000, included Certificate of Authenticity. Measures approximately 10". Red box.

Snow White Mug (50th Anniversary - 1987)

Anniversary mug with gold lettering and an image of the Dwarfs passing (or dropping) a birthday cake for Snow White. Measures: 3.5" tall x 3.25" across. Holds 10 ounces. Manufactured by Applause.

Bottom includes a "Walt Disney Mugs" and "Applause" imprint. Copyrighted 1987. Numbered edition of 14500.

"Eyes & Ears" Article (50th Anniversary - 1987)

In the February 5, 1987 issue of Eyes and Ears (the WDW cast member newspaper), it was announced that the shops in the Walt Disney World Village (now Downtown Disney) would be having a "Gem of a Sale" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Snow White. The sale was scheduled to run from February 15th through the 22nd.

Eyes and Ears image courtesy of George Taylor at Imaginerding. Used with permission.

The piece reads, "To make the event even more sparkling, the Captain's Tower will be decked out as a diamond mine." The Captain's Tower was a free-standing hexagonal store (where Disney Pin Traders is today) with a tower above that served as focal point of the shopping district.

Bonus pic of the Captain's Tower on a postcard from a decade earlier in 1977...

On the back of the postcard, it's pretty funny what the original owner wrote to his folks back home about WDW: "This is your kind of place. Except for some high class idiots, this place is alright..."

Postcard via The Postcard Dude.