Snow White on This Day in History

Watch the Movie Here

This Day In History: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premiered on this day in 1937. The film had many fans: Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, even Hitler loved the movie. The Disney film is a sanitized version of the story. In an older version, the Queen actually asks the Huntsman for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which were to be served for dinner that night. The Grimm version also has a wedding for Snow White where the Queen was forced to dance to her death: “They put a pair of iron shoes into burning coals. They were brought forth with tongs and placed before her. She was forced to step into the red-hot shoes and dance until she fell down dead.”

There is now a new animated feature from Korea called Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxEEE-KRpw

See also: The Origin of Nursery Tales in Mythology by Charles De B. Mills 1889
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-origin-of-nursery-tales-in.html

The Grimmest & Darkest Original Fairy Tales - 50 Books on CDrom
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-grimmest-darkest-original-fairy.html