Production information
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment (France) S.A.
Production number: 22/1524
Release date: December 1994
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sound: Hi-Fi Stereo Dolby Surround™
Digitally mastered
Walt Disney – The Masterpiece
Bar code: 3 459374 152469
Back to Home Video
On August 23, 1994—months ahead of its U.S. release—Snow White was issued on home video in France. The film first became available on VHS, and then on LaserDisc in December of that same year. While VHS was more widespread and affordable, LaserDisc offered significantly superior picture quality. The disc came in a simple sleeve featuring artwork similar to the VHS edition, a design that would also be reused for the German and Spanish LaserDisc releases.
Laserdisc features
The film is offered in PAL at 25 frames per second. It is divided into 28 chapters, with the 29th chapter dedicated to a behind-the-scenes documentary.
The digital Hifi Dolby Surround soundtrack contains the second French version, presented in its 1992 restoration. Thus, the credits are in French, some French inserts are included, but others are modified (the first page of the book at the beginning of the film, the cards for the passage of the seasons), and others are absent (the inscription on the pie). But this is the one and only digital release of the second French version to this day.
Reviews
On October 16, 1994, in the specialized periodical Télé K7, Gilles Gressard wrote of this release: “The image of this 57-year-old cartoon masterpiece is sumptuous, without the slightest scratch or blemish (…) This Snow White on laserdisc is close to perfection.
