JOHN CULHANE: When did you go on Snow White?
WOOLIE REITHERMAN: I don’t know what year it was. I was just beginning here as an animator, so I didn’t get on it until the last fourth or less even. I did some things on Dopey and the sequence was cut out and then I did the face in the mirror.
JC: That voice of the face in the mirror, was it magnified or adjusted?
WR: It was reverberated a little. It was Hugh Hennesy. We took movies of his head for the picture and lit it from below. We even made a few Photostats. I don’t think we will ever try this again, but I had to have it hold perfectly still and talk. That’s not very good for animation. So this thing was an experience, I tell you, because it had to be held perfectly still and all you could do is move the eyebrows and squint the eyes and a line here on the nose. The accuracy was tremendously important. I took about four tries at that thing and it always wiggled. Finally I folded the drawings in the middle and copied them on the other side.
But that was just the labor. The creative part was you had to have all this properly going with the sound, which was tough, for me anyway. […]
