The dwarfs have to bathe against their will: it’s a pretext for the kind of visual gags the animators used to cram into their shorts. Although it’s Doc who sings the song, Grumpy and Dopey get the lion’s share: the former’s incessant grumbling earns him a forced bath, the latter has an epic duel with a bar of soap.
The remarkable thing about this sequence is that almost all the scenes were animated by Vladimir Tytla. Only a few shots of Dopey (26, 26A and 26X) are by Fred Spencer, a shot of the fly on the soap is by Riley Thomson (scene 11), and a scene from Snow White is by Hamilton Luske (scene 34). Everything else is the work of Tytla and his assistants.
Production information
Sequence number: 6A
Date of final draft: undated
Directors: Perce Pearce
Assistant director: Hal Adelquist
Animators of Snow White: Grim Natwick & Hamilton Luske
Animator of the dwarfs: Vladimir Tytla & Fred Spencer*
Vladimir Tytla assistant animator: Bill Shull
Grim Natwick assistant animator: Marc Davis
Fred Spencer assistant animator: Volus Jones
*Fred Moore originally animated scenes 26 & 26A but Fred Spencer reanimated them.
Effects animator (Soup vapor, flames): Cy Young
Effects animator (Water, lather): Cornett Wood
Effects animators (Water): Stan Quackenbush, George Rowley, Art Palmer & John Reed
Effects animator (Bubbles, suds): Ugo D’Orsi
Effects animator (Water, suds, bubbles): Joshua Meador
Joshua Meador & Stan Quackenbush assistant: Sandy Strother
Ugo D’Orsi assistant: Harry Hamsel
Cast
Snow White: Adriana Caselotti
Doc: Roy Atwell
Grumpy and Sleepy: Pinto Colvig
Happy: Otis Harlan
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
Scenes
Here is the sequence broken up into scenes with the corresponding animators.
