Snow White (1916 film)

Snow White
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Directed by	J. Searle Dawley
Produced by	H. Lyman Broening (uncredited)
Written by	Winthrop Ames
Based on	Snow White by The Brothers Grimm
Starring	Marguerite Clark Creighton Hale
Cinematography	H. Lyman Broening
Production company	Famous Players Film Company
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 25, 1916 (1916-12-25)
Running time	63 minutes (18 frame/s)
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

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Snow White

Snow White (1916) is an American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was adapted by Winthrop Ames from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale by the Grimm brothers. The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.

Fifteen years old when he saw it, Walt Disney was inspired to make it the subject of his first feature-length animated film.

Cast

• Marguerite Clark as Snow White
• Creighton Hale as Prince Florimond
• Dorothy Cumming as Queen Brangomar/Mary Jane
• Lionel Braham as Berthold, the Huntsman
• Alice Washburn as Witch Hex

Preservation status

Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.

Home media

Snow White is included in the boxed DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000).

See also

• 1916 in film

External links

• Snow White at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Snow White at IMDb
• Snow White at the TCM Movie Database