Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Music from the Original Motion Picture Sound Track (VINYL SOUNDTRACK LP)

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Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm, "Long Play" (mono) vinyl record album, Disneyland DQ-1201, near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus cardboard jacket showing just the first hint of ringwear to edges of rear panel. Features "I'm Wishing," "Heigh Ho," "Whistle While You Work," and of course "Some Day My Prince Will Come." Snow White (1937-38) is Disney's first, breakthrough, feature-length animated masterpiece. The million-dollar gamble known throughout Hollywood before its release as "Disney's Folly," this was the film during the long development of which Disney realized a mere series of "gags" couldn't sustain an 84-minute feature, that instead of the wicked queen being merely a "fat and batty" comic character, she had to project some real menace. "Snow White" received a standing ovation at its Hollywood premiere from an audience which included John Barrymore, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and Cecil B. DeMille, won rave reviews ("So perfect is the illusion," wrote Variety, "so tender the romance and fantasy, so emotional are certain portions when the acting of the characters strikes a depth comparable to the sincerity of human players, that the film approaches real greatness"), and in 1938 earned four times more money than any other film released that year. Sergei Eisenstein called it the greatest film ever made, and the success inspired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to produce its own fantasy film, "The Wizard of Oz," the following year. The Motion Picture Academy missed the boat entirely, failing to honor the film at all (not even "best song" for "Some Day My Price Will Come," an honor which instead went to Harry Owens' "Sweet Leilani" from the eminently forgettable Bing Crosby-Martha Raye vehicle "Waikiki Wedding") but tried to make good their mistake by having Shirley Temple hand Walt an "honorary" award the following year, for, you know, INVENTING THE FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATED FILM. (There don't seem to have been any suspicions of carnal irregularities in the odd Seven Dwarf household in that more innocent era, though we hate to think what today's Disney organization would make of such an opportunity.) Walt Disney used much of the profit from Snow White to finance a new $4.5 million studio in Burbank -- which remains the location of Walt Disney Studios to this day. Within two years, the studio completed Pinocchio and Fantasia and had begun production on the animated Dumbo, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Counting income from home video release, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" -- for an initial investment of $1.49 million dollars -- had by 2001 taken in $1.1 billion. Furthermore, "Snow White" was one of the biggest-grossing films of the year in Europe -- during its re-release in 1963. "Disney's Folly," indeed. This 1968 LP now reduced from $45. N° de ref. del artículo 008926

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