This 1937 Snow White Poster served as an advertising visual for one of Walt Disney’s greatest achievements, and will be ideal for your decor!
- Paper Feature:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- Paper recycled, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for total protection.
- FREE STANDARD DELIVERY.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this 1937 Snow White Poster
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it was the first traditionally animated feature film and Disney’s first animated feature. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears, and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film’s individual sequences.
Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1937. It was a critical and commercial success, and with international box office receipts of over $8 million upon its initial release (against its $1.5 million budget), it briefly held the record for the highest-grossing sound film of the time. The film’s popularity led to numerous theatrical reissues, culminating in its home video release in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, it ranks among the top ten films at the North American box office and is the highest-grossing animated film. Worldwide, its inflation-adjusted earnings top the list for animated films.
Snow White was nominated for Best Score at the 1938 Academy Awards, and the following year, producer Walt Disney received an honorary Oscar for the film. This award was unique, consisting of one full-size statuette and seven miniature statuettes. They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple.
In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it as one of the first 25 films to be preserved in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films and also named it the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. Disney’s adaptation of the fairy tale had a considerable cultural impact, spawning popular theme park attractions, a video game, and a Broadway musical.
Snow White is a princess who lives with her stepmother, a vain queen. Fearing that the young girl is more beautiful than she is, the Queen forces Snow White to work as a maid and daily asks her Magic Mirror “who is the fairest of them all.” For years, the mirror always replies that it is the Queen, which pleases her.
One day, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now “the fairest.” That same day, Snow White meets and falls in love with a prince who has heard her sing. The jealous queen orders her huntsman to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and bring her heart back in a jewelry box. However, the huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White. He begs her forgiveness and reveals that the Queen wants her dead. He then urges her to flee into the woods and never return.
Lost and scared, the princess befriends some woodland creatures who lead her to a cottage deep in the woods. Finding seven small chairs in the cottage’s dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is the messy home of seven orphaned children. With the help of the animals, she sets out to clean the house and prepare a meal.
The cottage belongs to seven adult dwarves named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who work in a nearby mine. Upon returning home, they are alarmed to find their cottage clean and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home. The dwarves find Snow White upstairs, asleep on three of their beds. Snow White wakes up to find the dwarves at her bedside. She introduces herself, and all the dwarves eventually welcome her into their home after she offers to clean and cook for them. Snow White keeps house for the dwarves while they search for jewels during the day, and at night, they all sing, play music, and dance.
Meanwhile, the mirror reveals that Snow White is still alive, and with the dwarves. The Queen creates a poisoned apple that will plunge anyone who eats it into the “sleeping death.” She learns that the curse can be broken by “love’s first kiss,” but she is certain that Snow White will be buried alive before this happens. Using a potion to disguise herself as an old witch, the queen goes to the cottage while the dwarves are away. The animals attack her, but Snow White defends her. Unable to warn Snow White, the animals rush to find the dwarves. Claiming that the apple is magical and grants wishes, the Queen tricks Snow White into biting into it. As Snow White falls asleep, the Queen proclaims that she is now the fairest in the land.
The dwarves return with the animals just as the queen leaves the cottage. They chase her and trap her on a cliff. She tries to roll a boulder toward them, but lightning strikes the cliff before she can, and she falls to her death.
At their cottage, the dwarves discover that Snow White is being kept in a deathly sleep by the poison. Unwilling to bury her out of sight, they place her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a forest clearing. Along with the woodland creatures, they watch over her.
A year later, the prince learns that she sleeps forever and visits her coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and awakens her. The dwarves and animals rejoice as the prince takes Snow White to his castle.