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Snow White is still one of the best animated films. It not only forged feature animation but recaptured the particular dark optimism of the European fables.
I think the scene where Snow White wakes up in bed is still THE most important scene in animation history.
Why that one?
What we have to remember about animation is that it was not SELF-EVIDENT that it would stylize characters based on their personality. It could have been used (for someone less artistic, it would have been) simply to turn realistic people into animated forms.
Instead, however, Disney used animation to translate essential characteristics of personality into physical traits, which defined the art of animation forever.
When Snow White wakes up in bed, she names the dwarfs by SIGHT based on the artistic process of drawing them.
To an audience that had never seen an animated film, Snow White is teaching them how they work and how to watch them. The drawings reveal personality to the audience as they do to her.
Her ability to name them (ours to recognize the logic) is the test for animation AS a concept.
There's a reason Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin) called Snow White the greatest film ever made. You can feel its influence on Welles, Fellini ...
"Spectacle synthesis" was the term he used. Where diffuse and concentrated feelings meet in one representation. That's Snow White.
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