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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Showmen's Reviews
William R. Weaver

It is the custom of reporters filing reports of their observations under the above banner line to take the product apart, piece by piece, and deal as informatively as possible with each as a saleable or static item of box office merchandise.

But this custom was born of and thrives more or less ruggedly upon a product composed in prime or principal part of personalities, performances, human equations of this or that variety which have been added up expertly or otherwise to total a motion picture. If Walt Disney continues making feature length cartoons like this production, in which case others may be expected to do likewise, this convenient and altogether commendable custom would seem to be in line for having something done to it, because "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" just doesn't admit of taking apart.

There are just two parts to talk about in ths case of "Snow White," and the lesser of these is the probable exploitation value of mention that the story is a Grimm fairy tale which everybody must have read. All that might be said about that goes without saying, and from about now the work will be remembered as a Disney fairy tale anyway.

The other part to talk about is the Disney production of the first feature length motion picture in the cartoon medium, and there's more to talk about in that than any normal showman could possibly get around to. There is so much of it, in fact, that all the nation's commentators, columnists, feature writers, picture editors and plain journeyman journalists haven't yet been able to get it all said.

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Source type Magazine
Volume 129.13
Published
Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 1
Pages p. 36

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Inserted 2017-09-27