Leila Mills
Good Quotes: “I saw the handwriting on the wall. My costs kept going up and up, but the short subject was just a filler on any program. And so I felt I had to diversity my business. You could only get so much out of a short subject…I don't know why I picked "Snow White." The story is something I remembered as a kid. I once saw Marguerite Clark performing in it in Kansas City when I was a newsboy back in 1917. It was one of the first big feature pictures I'd ever seen. That was back in 1917…I thought it was the perfect story. It had the sympathetic dwarfs, you see? It had the heavy. It had the prince and the girl. The romance. I just thought it was a perfect story.” Walt Disney “The first duty of the cartoon is not to picture or duplicate real action or things as they actually happen, but to give a character life and action; to picture on the screen things that have run through the imagination of the audience and to bring to life dream-fantasies and imaginative fancies that we have all thought of during our lives or have had pictured to us in various forms during our lives… I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real. This point should be brought out very clearly to all new men, and even the older men.” Walt Disney “I think that Walt was impatient with the restrictions of the cartoon. He strived for more and more realism, more naturalism in the features. He was always aiming at exceeding the limitations of the medium.” Ken Anderson, an art director “I had sympathetic dwarfs, you see? I had the heavy, I had the prince. And the girl. The romance.” Walt Disney “the cinema was ripped out of the silent era by the roots, and transplanted into new soil-richer but unfamiliar. Unable to adjust to the new conditions, some of the roots withered and died, and much strength was lost.” Kevin Brownlow, Visual Artifacts: Each image has a hyperlink attached that can be accessed by double clicking on the image. This was done to show the source of each image. Good Website to Use- http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_pictures/13Snow_White_And_The_Seven_Dwarfs.html