This is the first scene in which the dwarfs have any dialogue, so we can see (and laugh at) each other’s personalities, even if the group’s reaction is unanimous: they’re scared. The situation is highly unusual, and they’re obviously not used to being around anyone. Doc turns out to be a rather cowardly leader, sending Dopey to danger in his place (the other dwarfs are hardly braver).
It seems that scenes 10 and 11 just before the dwarfs enter the house (probably the walkthrough) were eliminated from the final cut.
Many of the scenes were brought to life by Vladimir “Bill” Tytla, Arthur Babbitt and Dick Lundy, who were at ease with the dwarfs, and also by Fred Spencer, who provided hysterical scenes in which the characters were sometimes difficult to recognize and, in group scenes, even lost their faces for a few seconds.
Production information
Sequence number: 4D
Date of final draft: July 17, 1937
Directors: Perce Pearce
Assistant director: Carl Fallberg
Animators of Snow White: Eric Larson, Hamilton Luske & Jack Campbell
Animator of the animals: Bernard Garbutt
Animators of the birds: Eric Larson & Hamilton Luske
Animators of the dwarfs: Bill Roberts, Dick Lundy, Vladimir Tytla, Bob Wickersham, Arthur Babbitt, Fred Moore & Fred Spencer
Bill Robert assistant animator: John Elliotte
Dick Lundy assistant animator: Berk Anthony
Vladimir Tytla assistant animator: Bill Shull
Bob Wickersham assistant animator: Stephen Bosustow
Eric Larson assistant animator: Don Lusk
Fred Spencer assistant animator: Volus Jones
Arthur Babbitt assistant animators: Jack Larsen, Robert Leffingwell & Murray Griffin
Effects animator (Smoke, river): Ugo D’Orsi
Effects animator (Shadows): Bob Martsch
Effects animator (Steam): Joshua Meador
Effects animator (Candle, shadows upstairs, fighting dust): Sandy Strother
Assistant of Ugo D’Orsi: Harry Hamsel
Cast
Snow White: Adriana Caselotti
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.
