![]() "Hyperion Studios Tour" (30:36) culls the archives to show us around the birthplace of Disney Animation, with modern animation filmmakers Andrew Stanton, Ron Clements, John Musker and Eric Goldberg popping up in period garb "Bringing Snow White to Life" (11:35) celebrates character animators who made key contributions to the film and inspired Walt's famed Nine Old Men (then young men): Vladmyr "Bill" Tytla, Freddie Moore, Norm Ferguson, Grim Natwick, and Hamilton Luske. It acknowledges the people who made the movie and celebrates the film's visual and musical achievements, its daring unprecedented reception, its warm initial reception, and its enduring legacy. Then-new comments from historians and animators are complemented by a host of archival remarks and fitting visuals. The set's longest video-based extra, "Disney's First Feature: The Making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (33:15), is a thorough making-of retrospective produced for the 2009 Blu-ray. "Alternate Sequence: The Prince Meets Snow White" (3:39) uses concept art and a Walt Disney impersonator to recreate a sequence conceived for but cut from the film. We now move on to stuff that owners of the movie's first Blu-ray will recognize. "Snow White in Seventy Seconds" (1:12) lets a young unidentified African American girl rap the film's story amidst imagery from it. While animation buffs will know most of this, the youngsters this is aimed at will not and may not mind the plugs for modern Disney flicks. In it, Sofia Carson of Disney Channel's Descendants swiftly and colorfully dispenses a septet of fun facts regarding Disney's first animated feature. Veteran character animator Mark Henn and art directors Michael Giaimo, Lorelay Bové, and Bill Schwab marvel at concept art and live-action reference footage that shaped the film.ĭespite its impossibly long title, "The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Things You May Not Know About Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" runs just 4 minutes and 37 seconds. ![]() Its connection to the film is tenuous but at least it shows creativity to cover new Designing Disney's First Princess" (5:16) adds to the growing line of featurettes in which modern Disney animators voice admiration for what their forebears did. "Iconography" (7:16) pops in on artists and authorities in and outside of Disney, from DisneyBound blog creator Leslie Kay to LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya to Disney art director Brittney Lee, who cite the film and its iconic images as an influence on their work. ![]() The extras begin with "In Walt's Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (4:22), which sets Walt's retrospective remarks from 1955 on his first animated feature to fitting visuals from the premiere, the Oscars and the movie itself. This Blu-ray makes an effort to recycle many, but far from all past supplements, while focusing its efforts and back cover space instead on some newly-produced materials. Having been treated to loaded editions on DVD in 2001 and Blu-ray in 2009, there was little chance that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would not disappointĬompletists expecting to get all the bonus features previously assembled and more.
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