Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

  And this week's Friday night movie has been... Snow White and the Seven Dwarves!

Original image located here. Accessed 10th November 2023

I've been meaning to get this on DVD for the longest time and Disney's recent announcement that they will no longer distribute physical media in Australia is a good enough reason to grab it.
So why on earth would I get the physical release in this age of streaming? Well there was a special feature on the DVD that caught my attention: An audio commentary by Walt himself. Granted buying a DVD for a special feature, let alone buying a DVD, would look downright archaic now but keep in mind: once upon a time, special features were once a major selling point for DVDs.
Furthermore, the audio commentary got my attention just to see/hear how they did it (turns out, gathering all these sound clips of Walt, stitching them together and boom: there it is).

So about the movie: It's the big one. The one that proved feature length animation could work and the one that built an empire from the ground up. 
Of course, it may be easy to dismiss this movie for it's age but I don't think so. The animation and art direction still stand up really well. There is a lot of creativity and expressiveness on play here. Sure one might think that Disney and his animators are showing off what they can do but the animation still works some eighty six years later. 
And for a studio noted for formula, it is interesting to see it being put into play first up. And just how it works: Proof that the formula so well the first time that it has been reused many times since. 

So yeah, an important movie to the history of film that, remarkably, still holds up