Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney Productions, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted... Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938. It went on to gross a total of $8 million in international receipts in its opening release. The film was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989.
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| Release date: | December 21, 1937 |
| Directed by: | David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Ben Sharpsteen, Larry Morey |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Walt Disney |
| Music by: | Paul Smith, Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill |
| Cinematography: | Maxwell Morgan |
| Screenplay by: | Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Earl Hurd |
| Estimated budget: | $1,488,000 |
| Adapted from: | Snow White |
| Genre: | Musical, Fantasy, Animation |