Phenomenal

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2001)

One of the most important films of all time, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", is,now, often denigrated as old-fashioned and kitsch. But at the time of it's release, Snow White drew in more customers than any film ever made up to that point. And, if we are to believe Roy Disney, it made more money that year than all other films released that year combined. It was bigger than "Jaws", "Star Wars", and everything starring Pauley Shore.
But, then, it was released in 1937. In 1937, these other films were released. (And I love them all.)
The Awful Truth, A Star Is Born, The Good Earth, Camille, The Life of Emile Zola, Dead End, A Day At The Races, and Stage Door.
Snow White, like it or not, was the beginning of a new genre. And it is a genre unique in that it is limited to film, not theatre. Though it utilizes actors in it's beginnings, the imagination of the artist takes over in it's ultimate realization.
And,frankly, I don't have a problem with that.
A phenomena. And bless it's heart.