Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first shown
to a theatrical audience in December 1937 and brought overwhelming,
joyous applause from a house full of hardened film-industry
professionals. In subsequent months it would open around the world,
happily acclaimed by audiences and critics everywhere as one of the
best films of the year, if not the decade.
From today’s perspective, its stature is even greater—named as
one of the best movies of all time by the American Film Institute,
and still beloved by children and adults around the world, 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 doesn’t happen by accident.
Walt Disney and a staff of exceptionally talented artists labored
over Snow White for four years, endlessly working and reworking
their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The result, as we
know, was magnificent and game-changing for the Disney Studios and,
indeed, for the art of animation itself.
This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting
detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an
internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years
researching the film’s history, interviewing participants, and
studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages.
The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of
film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who
loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney
created.
關於作者:
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. He has also been a regular contributor
to the Griffith Project at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the
distinguished annual silent-film festival in Pordenone, Italy, and
speaks frequently on Disney, silent film history, and related
topics.
The Walt Disney Family Museum, owned and operated by the Walt
Disney Family Foundation, opened in 2009 in San Francisco.
Co-founded by Walt’s daughter, Diane Disney Miller, and grandson,
Walter Miller, the museum celebrates the genius and spirit of Walt
Disney, a risk-taker whose artistry, imagination and vision
influenced popular culture through animated and live-action films,
television programs, theme parks and new technologies. Walt’s
contributions live on today in the museum’s exhibits and education
programs, which share the fascinating story of the man who raised
animation to an art, transformed the film industry, tirelessly
pursued innovation, and created a global, distinctively American
legacy.
目錄:
Foreword
Introducition
PART Ⅰ:BEFORE 1934
PART Ⅱ:THE MAKING OF SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
PART Ⅲ:AFTER 1937
PART Ⅳ:RESOURCES