Probably the most famous of the film’s cut sequences, this one, although fully animated, was never painted and never integrated into the final footage. The pencil animation was then “cleaned up” in the 1950s by young artists including Floyd Norman, and the result was filmed and integrated into a TV program, then repeated several times in home video extra features. The song is catchy, this time carried mainly by Happy, and it was here that the soap swallowed by Dopey in the previous sequence was kicked out of him, but although consistent with the rest of the film, this sequence only lengthened the already lengthy bath sequence. Walt Disney justified his decision in November 1937: “I’ve got to get back to the witch”.
To console him for having wasted 8 months working on this sequence, in which he was responsible for many scenes, Ward Kimball said that he was given the character of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio.
To capitalize on the work already done on several cut sequences, a short film project entitled Snow White Returns was studied shortly after the film’s release.
In 2023, Brandon Kouri attempted to recreate scenes 9, 15 and 34 of this sequence in color and posted the result on his YouTube channel. His recreations appear in this page.
Production information
Sequence number: 6B
Date of final draft: February 4, 1937
Director: Perce Pearce
Assistant director: Hal Adelquist
Animator of Snow White: Grim Natwick
Animator of the dwarfs: Ward Kimball, Bill Roberts, Vladimir Tytla, Les Clark, Dick Lundy, Marvin Woodward & Fred Spencer
Ward Kimball assistant animator: Claude Smith
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.
