In 2012 Disney celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Snow White movie, a beloved classic and an important milestone in film history. This book, created with the Walt Disney Family Foundation, run by Walt’s daughter, is an exploration of the making of the film that includes never-before-published facts and art. The Fairest One of All won the award for Best Animation Book at the 2012 A113Animation Awards. Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 and brought overwhelming, joyous applause from a house full of hardened film-industry professionals. In subsequent months it would open around the world, happily acclaimed by audiences and critics everywhere as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. From today’s perspective, its stature is even greater—named as one of the best movies of all time by the American Film Institute, and still beloved by children and adults around the world, Snow White can be seen as the flowering of an all-too-brief Golden Age of animation as well as a fascinating document of its time. Such a level of artistic achievement doesn’t happen by accident. Walt Disney and a staff of exceptionally talented artists labored over Snow White for four years, endlessly working and reworking their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The result, as we know, was magnificent and game-changing for the Disney Studios and, indeed, for the art of animation itself. This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years researching the film’s history, interviewing participants, and studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney created.

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess and her adventures with the seven dwarfs she finds living in the forest.

This book retells the classic story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the equally compelling history of its making. It reunites a trove of its rare, surviving original conceptual and production art from the incomparable private collection of Stephen H. Ison. From the opening approach to the evil Queen's castle to the final awakening of Snow White with a kiss from her true love, each illustrated drawing freezes in time an image that had its momentary but indelible existence on the screen.

8x8 with audio based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The seven dwarfs are none too happy about washing, but clean up anyway in order to have supper with Snow White.

The seven dwarfs work hard to get their house ready for a visit from Snow White and the Prince.