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- Still in keeping with that commercial logic, and because previous foreign adaptations had thus been made, the first two versions, Spanish and French, were translated, filmed, recorded and mixed right in the Walt Disney studio.
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Even before the release of his first feature film, Walt Disney was aware that foreign exploitation required careful adaptation. The Silly Symphonies, which so often acted as a laboratory in many respects, also served as a test case in this field.
Snow White proved equally popular with foreign audiences. In September 1938, Variety reported that the film was having a remarkably long box-office run at theaters in Sydney, Australia. In that city, it noted, "Walt Disney's 'Snow White' (RKO) experienced no difficulty at hitting 11 weeks, with more ahead."
Mar 19, 2013 · Walt Disney's desired secrecy around the casting of Snow White apparently extended itself to foreign versions. Even Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell at the premiere were only introduced as "Snow White and the Prince".
The American premiere of the French version was at the New York Waldorf Theater on April 8, 1939 where Walt Disney made a personal apppearance. In December 1944 and January 1945, the film is shown in Paris, Avignon, and possibly in other cities.
Many countries deemed the film too terrifying, so foreign prints were edited. On initial release, England banned the film from unaccompanied children under 16, while in Sweden, an unedited version of the film was not released until 1992, at which point it was okayed for children under seven years with a parent.
Aug 10, 2014 · But once finalized, the French version enabled Disney to present his first feature magnificently in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées, in only one theater, whose facade was entirely decorated for the occasion: the Marignan theater, in which Snow White replaced La tragédie impériale, a film by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Harry Baur.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, American animated musical film, released in 1937, that established Walt Disney as one of the world’s most innovative and creative moviemakers. Along with Pinocchio (1940), it is widely considered to be Disney’s greatest film achievement.
