Snow White | |
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Theatrical poster to Snow White (1916) |
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Directed by | J. Searle Dawley |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Daniel Frohman |
Written by | Winthrop Ames |
Starring | Marguerite Clark Creighton Hale |
Release date(s) | 1916 |
Running time | 63 min. (18 frame/s) |
Country | USA |
Language | Silent film English intertitles |
Snow White is a 1916 American silent film made by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and produced by Adolph Zukor and Daniel Frohman. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, from the Grimm brothers story; Winthrop Ames adapted it to the screen from his play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that he had written under the pseudonym "Jessie Graham White" and had produced in 1912 at his Little Theatre on Broadway. It was Walt Disney's inspiration for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
This film is available for viewing on the Treasures From American Film Archives #4 DVD.
Two of the dwarfs are changed after first 10 min of their appearance.