Disney’s Thoroughly Modern “Snow White” Stereo Spectacular
An 85th anniversary look at the time Disney’s record division produced its first stereo Snow White album with the cream of Hollywood musical talent.
An 85th anniversary look at the time Disney’s record division produced its first stereo Snow White album with the cream of Hollywood musical talent.
Proposed names included Thrifty, Shifty, Nifty, Hotsy, Jumpy, Blabby, Burpy, Weepy, and Snoopy. That’s but one of the many secrets revealed here.
Answer: She was the Evil Queen and the Wicked Witch in Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Here’s her story.
Here’s an RKO Newsreel from 1938, the second half of which features behind the scenes footage of the Disney Studio producing several shorts and Snow White.
Holt was a Disney animator and sculptor who officially retired from the company in 1982. Here is his story.
For the 1938 broadcast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney did not want to destroy any illusions – so these episodes had no studio audience.
Edgar Bergen and McCarthy met the characters from Snow White on their December 19th, 1937, radio show. Here’s a transcript.
The first full-length Disney feature brought to life on the New York stage—a show that helped save Radio City Music Hall–was preserved the last music LP with the Buena Vista label.
The birthday celebration was part of a four day, fifteen city cross-country airplane tour, a Boeing 727, decorated with a 16-foot Donald Duck decal and “Happy Birthday” message along its side.
“I didn’t understand this thing until the opening night. They never let me see any rushes. We started on the film in 1934 when I was 18 and it went on until I was 21.”