Fairest One Of All

Product Description

The official celebratory book published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Walt Disneys first full-length animated movie. Walt Disneys Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs was first shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 & brought overwhelming joyous applause from a cinema full of hardened film-industry professionals. In subsequent months it would open internationally happily acclaimed by audiences & critics everywhere as one of the best films of the year if not the decade. From todays perspective its stature is even greater
- repeatedly cited as one of the finest movies of all time by cineastes & academics & still beloved by children & adults around the globe Snow White can be seen as the flowering of an all-too-brief golden age of animation as well as a fascinating document of its time. Such a level of artistic achievement doesnt happen by accident. Walt Disney & a staff of exceptionally talented artists laboured over the movie for four years endlessly working & reworking their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The finished film as we know was magnificent. It also heralded a new future for the Disney studio & indeed for the art of animation itself. This book is the first to reconstruct Snow Whites production process in exacting detail & with the loving attention it deserves. Author J.B. Kaufman has devoted years to researching the movies history interviewing participants & studying the marvellous archival imagery that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of cinema history & as a collectable art book a joy for anyone who loves film animation & the magical world that Walt Disney created.