History Trivia / SnowWhiteandTheSevenDwarfs

*** In the original draft, the original character of the queen was supposed to be overweight and flamboyant. The prince was also supposed to be much more goofy and unattractive. Walt decided to change the queen to give her more of a serious personality and the prince followed soon after.

* OldShame: In recordings, Walt Disney said that many regarded ''Snow White'' as a tough act to follow and disparaged his later films, to the point that Disney would resent ''Snow White'' for some time. He eventually came back around to loving his masterpiece.

* Thanks to this film's influence, this is one of only two Disney animated films to make Creator/RogerEbert's [[RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies list]]. The other one is the next film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: Inverted in the first Finnish dub from 1962, where all the songs were left undubbed (most likely to keep the dubbing costs as low as possible). But instead of having the songs in English, they are in Swedish (pasted from the Swedish dub made in 1938). This most likely due to the fact that Swedish is the second official language in Finland (despite being spoken only by about 5% of the total population).

* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Adriana Caselotti serves her sole feature film role as Snow White's uncredited voice actress, as part of her contract with Disney stated that she was never allowed to play another role again [[note]]there are exactly two other roles she played--as an uncredited voice speaking one line in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', and a very brief bit player part in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''[[/note]] or make public appearances to preserve the illusion of Snow White as a real character. Fortunately, she absolutely loved the role and openly embraced the reputation the film gave her later in life, which earned her the honor of a Disney Legend. Her own house was designed after the Dwarfs cottage and was filled with memorabilia from the film, and she even had an answering machine that responded to callers in-character!

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Movies: #49
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** #10 Villain, The Queen
** AFIS100Years100Songs:
*** #19, "Some Day My Prince Will Come".
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #34
** AFIS10Top10:
*** #1, Animation

* UsefulNotes/ListOfFilmsYouShouldSeeByTheAgeOf14: #40

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

* TheCastShowoff: Billy Gilbert was well known for his stand-up act in which he'd work himself up into increasingly violent face twitches that finally resulted in a giant sneeze, and was immediately thought of by Walt Disney himself once it was decided to make one of the Dwarves constantly sneeze.

* UncreditedRole: None of the actors are listed in the film's credits.

** GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Whenever Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo releases ''Snow White'' in a new format, during the 21st century, it heralds the start of a new collection of Disney's most iconic movies receiving a relatively large number of bonus features.
%%No need for a Wall of Text listing every collection ''Snow White'' launched, especially since Disney will probably keep using it to launch new lines until the end of time.

* BigNameFan: An Austrian artist of no great renown called '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' considered this one of the greatest films ever made. Although anti-Americanism was all the rage in Nazi Germany at the time (and Hitler himself had been scathingly critical of certain other "degenerate" works from Disney), Hitler owned the movie privately and was marveled by its animation quality.[[note]]This isn't so surprising when you consider that the film boasted Hitler's two favorite things: German traditionalism (the original folk tale is of German origin) and Anglo-European classical art (Hitler, like Walt Disney, loved classical-style art above all other styles, though unlike Disney, his distain for modern art unfortunately went a little further than blacklisting).[[/note]] [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-hitler/norwegian-says-he-has-cartoons-drawn-by-hitler-idUSL2181222020080222 Historians have even uncovered fanart drawn by Hitler of the Dwarfs.]]

* UncreditedRole: At the time, Adriana Caselotti was uncredited for voicing Snow White.

** Dopey almost made an appearance in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' as the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
** In the original draft, the original character of the queen was supposed to be overweight and flamboyant. The prince was also supposed to be much more goofy and unattractive. Walt decided to change the queen to give her more of a serious personality and the prince followed soon after.
* Creator/{{Atari}} was to release [[http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/snowwhite/snowwhite.htm a video game]] based on the film for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600, but it was later canned likely due to the UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983. A [[https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=2356 homebrew release]] complete with box art was later sold at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, albeit without Disney's blessing.

* BigNameFan: An Austrian artist of no great renown called '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' considered this one of the greatest films ever made. Although anti-Americanism was all the rage in Nazi Germany at the time (and Hitler himself had been scathingly critical of certain other "degenerate" works from Disney), Hitler owned the movie privately and was marveled by its animation quality. [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-hitler/norwegian-says-he-has-cartoons-drawn-by-hitler-idUSL2181222020080222 Historians have even uncovered fanart drawn by Hitler of the Dwarfs.]]

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: A Finnish blog describes the second Finnish dub of the film from 1980's as this compared to the third and newest Finnish dub made in 1994 (which can be found on the DVD). The blog describes the Finnish 1980's dub being more poetic and stylish than the Finnish dub from 1994, which concentrated too much in sounding as similar as possible with the original English version. The blog states that in the Finnish 1980's dub Snow White didn't have a voice as squeaky and high-pitched as in the English version but rather a youthful, motherly voice. The Evil Queen is described as having a voice that sounded realistically insane and bloodcurdling. The blog also criticizes the newer Finnish dub from 1994 for being way too subtle voice-acting and having ridicilous dialogue in some parts. Sadly, the Finnish dub from 1980's remains to be mostly lost.

* BigNameFan: An Austrian artist of no great renown called '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' considered this one of the greatest films ever made. Although anti-Americanism was all the rage in Nazi Germany at the time (and Hitler himself had been scathingly critical of certain other "degenerate" works from Disney), Hitler owned the movie privately and was marvelled by its animation quality. [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-hitler/norwegian-says-he-has-cartoons-drawn-by-hitler-idUSL2181222020080222 Historians have even uncovered fanart drawn by Hitler of the Dwarfs.]]
* BreakthroughHit: Disney was already famed for the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, but ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' made him a name in the feature-length film business. As a matter of fact, it became the highest grossing film of all time up to that point, a title that was taken by ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' two years later.

* DoingItForTheArt: One of the main reasons Disney created this film, in addition to the potential cash flow, was his hope that it would raise animation to a higher art form. The film took four years to make and was not only a massive effort that required the studio to expand to over 1,000 artists, but there was no guarantee of financial success--the studio almost went bankrupt just from trying to get the film made, and it was only finished because Disney managed to get a large bank loan from showing a rough cut of the film. The short cartoons basically became a training ground for the monstrous amount of work and effects techniques needed to get the film done--the animators even had to take a few hours of mandatory, unpaid art classes after work each day in order to keep their jobs. Whole segments of the film had to be reanimated because this rapid skill acquisition meant the animators were driving their own work obsolete. Disney was even doing color tests for scenes as late as four months into production. But it all paid off with what was (at the time) the highest grossing film of all time and one of the most influential movies ever made.

** What with being the highest grossing film of all time upon release, it was only natural that Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures would give [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] the chance to make their own answer to Snow White, that being their animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels''. Even Creator/WalterLantz, [[Creator/{{Terrytoons}} Paul Terry]] and Creator/HarmanAndIsing had plans to make their own features after the success of ''Snow White'' (none of which materialized, unfortunately). ''Snow White's'' success was also what convinced MGM to move forward with ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', another fairy tale-esque/family musical, which unfortunately did not turn out well financially to start, but it also joined the Hollywood Masterpiece club in time.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Whenever Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo releases ''Snow White'' on a new format, during the 21st century, it heralds the start of a new collection of Disney's most iconic movies receiving a relatively large number of bonus features.

* MoneyDearBoy: A big reason why Disney made this feature was that the ShortFilm product they made only brought in a set amount of revenue from their distributor regardless of how much audience interest in it. With features however, Disney's company could haul in much more if it proved a hit.

** The reason why the Prince had such little screentime was because the animators found him to be very difficult to animate.

** At one time, [=DisneyToon=] Studios was exploring the idea of turning the Seven Dwarfs into a boy-friendly franchise much like Disney Fairies is for girls. An epic ''[[http://animatedviews.com/2013/mike-disa-and-the-seven-dwarfs-how-the-snow-white-prequel-became-a-dopey-movie/ Lord of the Rings]]''-inspired adventure that would explore how they came together as well as the origins of the Magic Mirror and Evil Queen was proposed, along with a DarkerAndEdgier video game prequel by Creator/ObsidianEntertainment about the Dwarfs' ancestors. This project ended up getting trimmed down in scope to a more comedic affair that would have revealed Dopey's muteness being the result of [[CerebusRetcon childhood trauma watching his mother die]], but nobody had the nerve to present this idea to Creator/JohnLasseter and he cancelled a further meddled version immediately.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: A Finnish blog describes the second Finnish dub of the film from 1980's as this compared to the third and newest Finnish dub made in 1994 (which can be found on the DVD). The blog describes the Finnish 1980's dub being more poetic and stylish than the Finnish dub from 1994, which concentrated too much in sounding as similar as possible with the original English version. The blog states that in the Finnish 1980's dub Snow White didn't have a voice as squeaky and high-pitched as in the English version but rather a youthful, motherly voice. The Evil Queen is described having a voice that sounded realistically insane and bloodcurdling. The blog also criticizes the newer Finnish dub from 1994 for being way too subtle voice-acting and having ridicilous dialogue in some parts. Sadly, the Finnish dub from 1980's remains to be mostly lost.

** Alternate names and personalities were considered for the dwarfs, among them Wheezy, Awful and Jumpy. More information can be found [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Unused_Dwarfs here]].

*** Deanna Durbin auditioned for the voice of Snow White, but was not chosen because Walt Disney felt her voice was too mature.