Snow White (1916 film)

Snow White
Advertisement (1917)
Directed byJ. Searle Dawley
Written byWinthrop Ames
Based onSnow White as collected
by The Brothers Grimm
Produced byH. Lyman Broening (uncredited)
Starring
CinematographyH. Lyman Broening
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 1916 (1916-12-25)
Running time
63 minutes (18 frame/s)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Snow White, full 63 minute film

Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. Winthrop Ames adapted it from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale (as collected by the Brothers Grimm). The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.[1]

Having seen the film at the age of fifteen, Walt Disney was inspired to use the Brothers Grimm fairy tale as the subject of his first feature-length animated film in 1937.[1]

Cast

uncredited

  • May Robson as Witch Hex (she replaced originally scheduled Alice Washburn)
  • Kate Lester as a dowager queen

Preservation status

Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.[1]

Home media

Snow White is included in the boxed DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000).[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c J.B. Kaufman. "Snow White, 1916". San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  2. ^ Carl Bennett (ed.). "Treasures from American Film Archives". Silent Era. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
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