Snow White bites into the apple and suffocates, while the Queen recalls aloud the effects of her poison as described in the spell book. With her last breath, the Princess falls to the ground, revealing only her hand letting slip the fatal apple on-screen.
The old hag, with a triumphant and ironic cry, exclaims: “Now, I’ll be fairest in the land!”
In the final draft, right after Snow White falls, scene 4A was supposed to be one shot where the witch would laugh, say her line and exit the door. In the final version, there are two shots and the second cuts before she gets out.
Production information
Sequence number: 14H
Date of final draft: November 9, 1937
Director: William Cottrell
Assistant director: Hal Adelquist
Animators of Snow White: Robert Stokes, Hamilton Luske & Jack Campbell
Animator of the hag: Norman Ferguson & Nick George
Animator the dwarfs and animals: Eric Larson
Eric Larson assistant animator: Don Lusk
Jack Campbell assistant animator: Amby Paliwoda
Robert Stokes assistant animator: Bill Weaver
Nick George assistant animator: William de la Torre
Effects animator (Lightning, rain): Cy Young
Cast
Snow White: Adriana Caselotti
Hag: Lucille La Verne
Doc: Roy Atwell
Grumpy and Sleepy: Pinto Colvig
Happy: Otis Harlan
Bashful: Scotty Mattraw
Sneezy: Billy Gilbert
Additional dwarfs voices: Jim MacDonald, Clarence Nash, Hal Rees & Lem Wright
The birds: Esther Campbell, Anne Darlington, Marion Darlington, Peggy Downey, Ruth Magden, Louise Meyers, Clarence Nash & Ruby Ray
Scenes
Here is the sequence broken up into scenes with the corresponding animators.
Concept drawings
Storyboard
Animation Drawings
Layouts and Backgrounds
The production backgrounds of this sequence were all used in presentation cel set-ups by the studio. As the cels were usually glued to the background, there are no scans of the original backgrounds without the cels.
