Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Snow White, the first animated film, remains delightful in its newest 2160p HDR format with rich sound and color details.
The first full-length animated film, its success paved the way for future animations. Its 4K restoration maintains a fine balance of brightness and contrast, revealing detailed textures, fine lines, and depth with a respectful nod to age and production imperfections.
Despite some slight boxiness and tinny sounds, the dated elements offer a fine listening experience with impressive clarity for its 1937 origin. The disc presents the scenes effectively, predominantly front-focused, providing options for theatrical or surround track.
Disney's Snow White creation is dissected in HD features, revealing story insights, cut scenes, and studio tours. The 1080p disc catalogs all extras, including audio commentary by Disney figures and recordings by Walt Disney.
Walt Disney's groundbreaking classic 'Snow White' features a brave heroine, comedic dwarfs, and stellar animation, evolving cinema with its premiere, yet its 4K UHD format release only emerged in 2016.
Director: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson
Actors: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne
Plot: Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
Disc Release Date: 10 October 2023
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The increased resolution of this format may tend to point out some minor irregularities in any given frame or two, where, for instance either animation imperfections or actual focus issues can lead to...
Ken goes into quite a bit of detail in his review about many of the aspects of the track, and I'd only add that there's some unmistakable and no doubt unavoidable boxiness and slightly tinny sound to this...
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Home theater aficionados got a Valentine's Day present of sorts when the 4K UHD disc format debuted on February 14, 2016, which may then beg the question for some as to why it took the venerable Walt Disney...
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The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 option is fine, and in fact rather conservative for a surround reimaginging (which is the correct choice, in my opinion), but I sure wish Disney would let us have original mono...
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Contrast keeps a careful peak as to not swell brightness for the sake of it, not even the sparkling diamonds in the mine; it’s a respectful restoration....
Considering Snow White came out in 1937, still early in the sound era, the clarity is impressive, slightly detectable static aside....
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An alternate sequence leads into a bevy of making-of material that’s far more meaty, digging into the story meetings, cut scenes, the cast, and even a Hyperion Studio tour....
Walt Disney’s choice to occupy viewer attention with comedy via the dwarfs is genuine genius, and done well enough that the lack of narrative value becomes irrelevant....
- Total90
Masterfully animated, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ rich, gentle comedy can still delight today....
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The film has always looked lovely but it's a true stunner in 4K. You can see all of the textures in the cels with fine lines visible and the depth between the background plate and cell elements is fully...
It’s a big disc with plenty of room to give fans an option of a surround track or the original theatrical experience, so why not offer both?...
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Given that none of the bonus features appear on the 4K disc itself, all of the extras can be cataloged from the included 1080p disc....
It's a classic in every sense of the word, and the premiere animated film, as it ushered in what we know today as the animated feature....
- Total90
A magical film beautifully upgraded to 2160p with a lovely HDR grade that highlights and enhances all of the film’s best and most colorful attributes....
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As the first full length animated feature film it’s success paved the way for all of the beloved animated motion pictures (Disney and otherwise) that have followed in the 80 + years since its release....
The dated elements in the recording never sounded thin or dynamically starved and overall, the listening experience sounded just fine....
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Designing Disney's First Princess – 5 minutes (HD) The Fairest of Them All: 7 things you might not know about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (HD) Snow White in Seventy Seconds (HD) Alternate Sequence:...
When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White is the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs -- Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey....
- Total95
As the first full length animated feature film it’s success paved the way for all of the beloved animated motion pictures (Disney and otherwise) that have followed in the 80 + years since its release....
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- Audio80
It carries some nice grain and the details are strong enough to see the handcrafted strokes in spots and also (and I mean this as a positive) some of the age and production imperfections of the time (Blurred...
Most of it is kept to the front, though, which gives a terrific representation of the scenes progressing on screen....
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Audio CommentaryBy Roy E. Disney and Historian John Canemaker, and Recordings by Walt DisneyIn Walt’s Words: Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (HD, 4:22)Iconography (HD, 7:16)@DisneyAnimation: Designing...
When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White is the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs — Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey....
- Total90
Like such films as Star Wars or The Godfather, when it comes to the newest home video format, you should just instantly pick it up....