Production information
Title: Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões
Director: Wallace Downey
Technical manager: Moacyr Fenelon
Adaptation: Ruy de Castro (dialogs) & João de Barro (songs)
Recording dates: May 1938
Studio: Sonofilms Brasil
Cast
Snow White (Branca de Neve – dialogs): Dalva de Oliveira
Snow White (Branca de Neve – singing): Maria Clara Tati Jacome
The Queen: Cordélia Ferreira
The Hag: Estephania Louro
The Prince: Carlos Galhardo
The Slave in the Magic Mirror: Almirante
The Huntsman: Túlio de Lemos
Doc (Mestre): Almirante
Grumpy (Zangado): Aristóteles Penna
Happy (Feliz): Delorges Caminha
Sleepy (Somneca): Baptista Júnior
Bashful (Dengoso): Baptista Júnior
Sneezy (Atchim): Edmundo Maia
Dwarf singing voices: Almirante, Baptista Junior, Bob Lazy, Castro Barbosa & Odyr Odilon
First shown in:
September 5, 1938 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 10, 1938 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 28, 1938 in Porto, Portugal (Rivoli Theater)
December 12, 1938 in Portugal (General release)
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Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões
According to J.B. Kaufman in his book “The Fairest One of All – The Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the Portuguese version was not supervized by the Disney studio (presumably because Stuart Buchanan was in Europe at the time), but by the Brazilian branch of RKO, and recorded in Rio de Janeiro in May 1938. The Portuguese dialog was then sent to New York’s Disney offices to be mixed and the film premiered on September 5, 1938 in Rio. It took a little over two more months to reach Portugal.
Extract
Here is a very short extract of this otherwise unavailable version, taken from the 1951 American TV special: The Walt Disney Christmas Show.
