The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
There’s not much you can do to make a story that takes a breezy five minutes to read aloud to sleepy children fill an entire feature-length runtime, but one way is to make it a musical, which was Disney’s stock in trade at the time.
The story is pretty close to the Grimm version: Snow White’s evil stepmother, the queen, can’t abide the child being more beautiful, so she puts a hit out on her that Snow White escapes from, because she is too pretty to kill. The dwarfs take pity on her and she signs up to be their housekeeper in exchange for food and lodging and two or three musical numbers with them . The queen disguises herself as a hag peddling apples and tricks the girl into eating a poisoned one.
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