The image of Snow White giving a kiss on the forehead to each of the dwarfs before they leave for the mine (singing a cover of “Heigh Ho”) has become a picture-book icon, especially the one with Dopey. It’s another opportunity to reinforce each other’s character traits, but above all, it’s in this scene more than any other that Grumpy’s feelings for the girl are revealed. He’s clearly in love with her, and she knows it: the cake she’ll bake later is for him. Incredibly, Happy is nowhere to be seen in this sequence.
Production information
Sequence number: 10A
Date of final draft: November 15, 1937
Director: Perce Pearce
Assistant director: Carl Fallberg
Animators of Snow White: Grim Natwick, Hamilton Luske & Jack Campbell
Animator of the animals: Eric Larson
Animators of the dwarfs: Fred Moore, Frank Thomas & Vladimir Tytla
Fred Moore assistant animator: Ollie Johnston
Vladimir Tytla assistant animator: Bill Shull
Jack Campbell assistant animators: Hugh Fraser & Amby Paliwoda
Grim Natwick assistant animator: Les Novros, J.S. Escalante & Marc Davis
Effects animator (Shadows): Sandy Strother
Cast
Snow White: Adriana Caselotti
Doc: Roy Atwell
Grumpy: Pinto Colvig
Bashful: Scotty Mattraw
Sneezy: Billy Gilbert
Dopey: Eddie Collins
Additional dwarfs voices: Jim MacDonald, Clarence Nash, Hal Rees & Lem Wright
Dwarfs singing voices: Freeman High, Bill Cowles, Sonny Dawon & Harry Stanton
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 pan background of scene 27 was most likely cut after production by Helen Nerbovig so that the right side would be used to be sold as one of her cel set up. The recreation below, made from screen captures of the film, allows you to see how the colors of a background would photograph differently with the Technicolor camera.
