Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. 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.
13 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| female-female rivalry | choice | the Queen was in competition with Snow White for the position of most beautiful |
| wicked character vs. virtuous character | choice | th queen was clearly evil; Snow White was clearly good hearted |
| epic love | major | the prince's legendary love made him seek out Snow White even after she had died |
| female vanity | major | the queen was vain to the point of murder |
| jealousy | major | the queen was envious of Snow White's beauty |
| the battle of the sexes | major | the feminine ideal Snow White was contrasted with the stereotypically male dwarfs, especially with regard to cleanliness |
| the desire to be beautiful | major | the queen wanted o be the most beautiful in the land |
| what if a killer was after me | major | Snow White had to run away because the queen was out for her life |
| coping with being lost in the forest | minor | Snow White got herself more or less lost in the forest ere she stumbled upon the dwarfs' house |
| duty vs. conscience | minor | the huntsman could not bring himself to slaughter Snow White as the queen had ordered him to |