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Disney Version of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'

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were the familys sole breadwinners, were unemployed, while women struggled to exert their moral influence over their families so that they wouldnt lose faith that they would eventually overcome adversity.  The movies represented a source of escapism and provided much needed comfort and solace at this time of extreme hardship. A talented animator named Walt Disney had labored  for three years to bring Grimms fairy tale Snow White to the silver screen. He was charmed by the story and believed that the story of a young and  beautiful girl whose optimism never waned and was whose dreams were realized by an act of fate would offer Americans hope and give them something to believe in. It  took some 750 artists, 250,000 sketches and several screenwriters to transform the Brothers Grimms story into Walt Disneys twentieth-century interpretation, and the resulting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, once  labeled by critics as "Disneys folly" would ultimately come to represent the 1930s perception of gender, its psychological and social implications (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs PG). The original  Grimms version of Snow White begins with her mother, the Queen, embroidering on a huge black frame. She absentmindedly pricks herself while daydreaming, and as a result, three droplets  of blood stained the freshly fallen snow. Upon seeing this, she wished for a child whose skin would be as white as the snow, and would have features as  red as her blood and as black as her embroidery frame. She dies shortly after giving birth to her daughter, and the story then proceeds to explore the conflicting  relationship between a seven-year-old Snow White and her wicked stepmother. In the Disney version, Snow White is an adult, but displays many of the innocent and virtuous characteristics of