<P> Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures . Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full - length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film . 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 . </P> <P> Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938 . It was a critical and commercial success, and with international earnings of $8 million during its initial release briefly assumed the record of highest - grossing sound film at the time . The popularity of the film has led to it being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s . Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top ten performers at the North American box office . </P> <P> At the 11th Academy Awards, Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar, and the film was nominated for Best Musical Score the year before . In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . The American Film Institute ranked it among among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008 . Disney's take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural impact, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, and a Broadway musical . </P> <P> Snow White is a lonely princess living with her stepmother, a vain Queen . The Queen worries that Snow White will look better than her, so she forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all". For years the mirror always answers that the Queen is, pleasing her . </P>

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