Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Art And Creation Of Walt Disney's Classic Animated Film

Features over 250 pieces of art including original concept sketches, background paintings, and production cels, as well as alternate character concepts, deleted scenes, and step-by-step process shots.

In 1933, Walt Disney was a rising star in the world of animation. Ambitious new ideas emerged from the Disney studio on a regular basis, and the film world waited early to see what the creative young filmmaker would do next. The answer surprised them all: a full length animated feature film, based o the traditional tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The production took three years and the talents of many of Hollywood's top artists...and, of course, created on of the best loved classics of all time. This book, based on a groundbreaking exhibition of both familiar and never-before-seen art from The Walt Disney Family Museum, and the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, walks the reader scene by scene through the movie, accompanying the art with behind-the-scenes stories about the film's production.

J.B. Kaufman is an author and film historian on the staff of The Walt Disney Family Foundation, and has published extensively on topics including Disney animation and American silent film. He is the author of South of the Border with Disney, and coauthor, with Russell Merritt, of Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney (winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award and the Society for Animation Studies' Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambart Award, and chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year), and Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies.