All’s well that ends well when the Prince approaches in song, gives Snow White a kiss (borrowed from the story of Sleeping Beauty, for in the original tale, there was no kiss), and wakes up his fair lady who, after an emotional farewell to her friends, rides away on the white horse towards the castle “beyond the clouds.”
The extent to which the film borrows its narrative techniques from silent films is clear, as the story is told with a remarkable economy of dialogue in the last three scenes. In fact, only the Princess’s “good-byes” are intelligible, and perfectly dispensable for understanding the denouement.
In order to speed up the pace at the end of the film, scenes 16 and 17, in which the Prince leads Snow White on horseback along a stream where the trio is reflected, have been cut, and one of the dwarfs doesn’t get a kiss. It’s Sleepy who, it seems, is kissed off-screen.
Production information
Sequence number: 16A
Date of final draft: December 2, 1937
Director: Wilfred Jackson
Assistant director: Ford Beebe
Animators of Snow White: Grim Natwick, Hamilton Luske & Jack Campbell
Animators of the Prince: Grim Natwick, Clair Weeks, Hamilton Luske, Hugh Fraser (deleted scene 17) & Milt Kahl
Animators of the dwarfs: Frank Thomas, Dick Lundy & Fred Spencer.
Animator of the animals: James Algar & Bernard Garbutt
Frank Thomas assistant animators: Art Elliott & Charles Menges
Grim Natwick assistant animators: Milt Kahl & Marc Davis
Jack Campbell assistant animators: Hugh Fraser, Clair Weeks & Amby Paliwoda
Dick Lundy assistant animator: Berk Anthony
Effects animator (Blossoms): Jim Will
Effects animator (Flowing stream): Stan Quackenbush (deleted scene 17)
Layout artist scene 18: Carrol Stapp
Cast
Snow White: Adriana Caselotti
The Prince: Harry Stockwell
Scenes
Here is the sequence broken up into scenes with the corresponding animators.
