Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 musical comedy fantasy animated film.

It is America's first

feature-length animated film. It is also the first one in English and the first in Technicolor. It is produced

by Walt Disney Productions, premiered on December 21, 1937, and was originally released to theaters

by RKO Radio Pictures on February 4, 1938. The film is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale,

in which an evil queen attempts to have her stepdaughter, Snow White, murdered in jealousy of her

beauty. But she escapes and is given shelter by seven dwarfs in their cottage in a forest.

The film is generally considered to be Walt Disney's most significant achievement, his first-ever

animated feature. It was the first major animated feature made in the United States, the most

successful one released in 1938, and, adjusted for inflation, is the tenth highest-grossing film of all time.

This historical moment in motion picture history changed the medium of animation. Before 1937, short

cartoons took up the majority of American animation.

The film was adapted by Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl

Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears, and Webb Smith and was supervised by David Hand, and directed by

William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen. It is particularly

memorable for songs like "Heigh-Ho" and "Someday My Prince Will Come", several frightening and

intense sequences, and a style influenced by European storybook illustrations.

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