Before I went to Film History class, I never paid any attention to all the graphics and time taken to make the film Snow White. It probably took alot of artists and a lot of cound directors and just alot of everything. As a child I watched the movie in amazement at the story, the vivid and lively colors, and the dwarfs especially. I never thought about it as the first full-length animated movie. I never thought about how many drawings and redrawings and paintings Walt Disney might have had his crew to do. It probably took alot of work to find the perfect voice for each character as well, but how did they decide which voice would fit great with each character? How did they determine what noises to sychronize with the drawings? How did he decide what kind of personalities to bring out and give the dwarfs? I mean I never would have thought of making a dwarf named Doc. Many of the dwarfs seemed to take on emotions like Grumpy and Happy so why didn’t he continue with making all of the dwarfs emotions? Why choose Sleepy? Why chose Dopey and why did Dopey have two left feet and seem like he was deaf and act like he was on crack?
How did they determine what a talking mirror would sound like? Why does it have a masculine manly voice? Could our mirrors possibly be mean? Makes me a bit scared to walk by my mirror in fear that it might be secretly staring at me and judging me and my body with his wandering perverted eyes….or maybe I am just looking too far into it. So does that mirror’s voice fit because that is what we are used to hearing on Snow White or can another voice other than that work properly and still sound just as good? What was going on in Walt Disney’s mind when he wrote this? Why does Snow White only have a nose sometimes but at others she just has little black dots respresenting nostrils? Is this due to different artists drawing her or what? It made me wonder as I watched her move in different positions and turn and move her head and watch as her nose disappeared. I never realyl looked before, but now I guess as an Art major I cannot help but to pay attention to such small details. Maybe I am being too critical, but I still do love this movie and would watch it one hundred times. I know now that it took a long time to create so many people and animals with so many different movements and positions. This movie probably took a lot of time and planning because in the end it all fitted perfectly into the storyline.
