The dwarfs finally understand the danger and set off on the backs of the fastest animals to rush home and protect Snow White.
This is one of the few times we hear Sleepy speak, and yet he does so in a shot that was originally intended to be his intervention in sequence 11A (scene 12), where he offered his share of the collective effort to the bed built by the dwarfs: to test it once it’s finished. This explains why the animated drawings in this shot are horizontally flipped, as they were intended to be in the original sequence. The evocation of this famous cut sequence can also be found in the concept drawings, where the dwarfs cling to the bed that will disappear from the final version.
Scene 11 with the turttle was originally scene 13 on the first draft, meaning that it was intended to be the last scene of this sequence.
A funny detail: in the first German version, the dwarfs’ cries were kept from the French version: as these versions were edited at the studio by the usual American crews, they probably figured that in the hubbub, it would not make a difference.
Production information
Sequence number: 14E
Date of final draft: undated
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Assistant director: Lou Debney
Animators of the dwarfs: Les Clark, Eric Larson, Hamilton Luske & Bill Roberts
Animator of the animals: Eric Larson, James Algar, Hamilton Luske & Bernard Garbutt
Eric Larson assistant animators: Don Lusk, Jack Bradbury & Dan Noonan
Bernard Garbutt assistant animator: Jack Bradbury
Bill Roberts assistant animator: John Elliotte
James Algar assistant animator: Osmund Evans
Cast
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.
