How do you not have this film in your collection?
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs has been available on DVD in several editions as well as a Blu-ray from a few years ago. This is the first animated feature film. It is not only a landmark in cinema history, it is simply a great tale beautifully told. This version of the film’s release on home video is being touted as special for the availability of it in digital high-definition for the first time.
The film looks and sounds just as good as it did on the previous release, which is to say – amazing. On Blu–ray the lushness of the animation, foreground and backgrounds, reallly “pops” and we get a truly fantastic presentation the likes of which original audiences never got. Watching this on a big screen is a wonder.
Oh, the story, yes, for the 12 of you in the world that haven’t heard of this film, well, chances are you aren’t reading this blog. Otherwise you already know about Snow White, the wicked step-mother, the dwarfs, prince charming, etc. Maybe it has been a while and you have forgotten many of the particulars of the film, but Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs certainly holds up as one of the absolute classics in the Disney library.
What makes this Blu-ray release different? Usually Disney offers up some new special features when one of its major releases gets a new home video release and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is not different. There are some new special features, a couple of which I am surprised did not make it onto a previous edition. There is an alternate sequence with Snow White and Prince Charming as well as a few minutes of interview bits with Walt Disney himself. The other new stuff isn’t as interesting. In descending order we have a few minutes of trivia on the film, a few minutes with several artists discussing the film then a sort of rap version of the plot billed as “Snow White In Seventy Seconds”.
This is all well and good, but a whole host of previous special features are missing. We don’t get the camera tests, the storyboard to screen comparisons, memorabilia scrapbook and more. Quite a bit is missing, so don’t get rid of you previous Blu-ray edition just yet.
If you do not have Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, this is a good way to get it. If you already have the film on Blu-ray, there isn’t need to replace it.