The dwarfs offer Snow White the use of their room, giving Grumpy a chance to complain and the animators a chance to find new gags in the motley assortment of places the little men choose to spend the night. The soothing music heard during this sequence is in keeping with the tradition of sleep scenes, recurrent in Disney’s work (The Old Mill, Pinocchio, Fun and Fancy Free, Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book…).
The current sequence begins at scene 6A, because at the start of the sequence, a gag animated by Les Clark was to show Dopey knocking over a pile of logs on which Sleepy had dozed off while Snow White was singing. Awakened with a start, Sleepy requested her to “tell a story” again, as before Snow White had complied. Scene 14A seems to be the only scene of the film with absolutely no animation, not even effects.
Production information
Sequence number: 8C
Date of final draft: November 15, 1937
Director: Wilfred Jackson
Assistant director: Ford Beebe
Animators of Snow White: Grim Natwick, Hamilton Luske & Errol Gray
Animator of the dwarfs: Marvin Woodward, Riley Thomson; Les Clark, Fred Spencer & Dick Lundy
Les Clark assistant animator: Phil Duncan
Fred Spencer assistant animator: Volus Jones
Dick Lundy assistant animator: Berk Anthony
Marvin Woodward assistant animators: Herb Johnson & Ray Patin
Grim Natwick assistant animators: Les Novros & Marc Davis
Effects animator (Fireplace): Cy Young
Effects animator (Feather): John Reed
Effects animator (Clock): Andy Engman
Effects animator (Shadows, feathers clean-up): Sandy Strother
Andy Engman’s assistant: Dick McDermott
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
Scenes
Here is the sequence broken up into scenes with the corresponding animators.
Concept drawings
Storyboard
Rotoscope
Below are a few stills from a film documenting the shooting of scenes 8 and 23 with Marge Belcher.
