The fairest one of all
Subtitle: the making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs
By: J.B. Kaufman ; foreword by Diane Disney Miller
Publisher: Weldon Owen, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781616284381
Subjects: Animated films; History and criticism; Animation (Cinematography); Snow White and the seven dwarfs (Motion picture)
Description: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 and brought overwhelming, joyous applause from a house full of hardened film-industry professionals. In subsequent months it would open around the world, happily acclaimed by audiences and critics everywhere as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. From today's perspective, its stature is even greater--named as one of the best movies of all time by the American Film Institute, and still beloved by children and adults around the world, Snow White can be seen as the flowering of an all-too-brief Golden Age of animation as well as a fascinating document of its time. Such a level of artistic achievement doesn't happen by accident. Walt Disney and a staff of exceptionally talented artists labored over Snow White for four years, endlessly working and reworking their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The result, as we know, was magnificent and game-changing for the Disney Studios and, indeed, for the art of animation itself. This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years researching the film's history, interviewing participants, and studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney created.
Notes: Subtitle from jacket cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Before 1934. The birth of the tale; title: "Snow White" on stage and screen; title: Part II: The making of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. A new challenge; title: Character design; title: Production; title: The film; title: Finish the picture!; title: The opening; title: Part III: After 1937. The ups and downs of success; title: Snow White in other lands; title: The dwarfs go to war; title: The return of Snow White; title: More princesses; title: Television; title: Red as the rose, black as ebony, white as snow; title: Part IV: Resources.