Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs: Which famous dictator is this animated film the favorite?

Released in 1937, the cult animated film Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, produced by Disney Studios, will be rebroadcast on Saturday, December 25, 2021, from 6 p.m. on M6. This cartoon, which is known to be the very first “classic animation“from the Disney studios, is in fact the film adaptation of the homonymous tale of the Brothers Grimm published in 1812. A tale strongly anchored in European traditions. If it is not, contrary to what is often said, the first animated feature film in the history of cinema, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs eclipses its predecessors because of the impact it has had on audiences.

In addition, it is with this film that the Disney company launched the practice of derivative rights, consisting in collecting a percentage on the use of characters, and which still accounts for a large portion of the company’s revenue today. The gamble of releasing this feature film was extremely risky at the start, given that its development took 4 years, while bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy. In total, the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs employed 750 people. The initial budget of $ 150,000 eventually reached $ 1.4 million, which was a huge fortune at the time. But the work of Walt Disney and his crew paid off, as the film attracted more than 20 million spectators during its theatrical exploitation.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Adolf Hitler worshiped the film according to journalist Roger Faligot

For the record, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was not not distributed in Germany when the country was under Nazi rule. However, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary that he greatly appreciated this work. “We watch Snow White, an American film by Walt Disney, an extraordinary artistic creation, a tale for adults thought out down to the smallest detail and produced with an authentic human love for nature. Infinite artistic pleasure“, he said. In addition, the feature film was screened to Adolf Hitler in his private cinema.

According to journalist Roger Faligot, the work then became Hitler’s favorite animated film. “Snow White, adapted for the screen from the tale of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, originally from Hesse, is it not the archetype of Nordic and Aryan beauty from German literature? And the hook-nosed witch, a symbol of the evil spirit, so surely Jewish? Hitler worshiped the film, which he would have watched throughout the war and until the last days of its existence“, he explained.

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