What ‘Snow White’ Has to Teach Us About Purity, Corruption, Romance, and Civilization

What ‘Snow White’ Has to Teach Us About Purity, Corruption, Romance, and Civilization
Detail, "Snow White," date unknown, by Alexander Zick. Public domain
Jeff Minick
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Walt Disney’s 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” rightly remains one of the most amazing American films ever made.

Originally dubbed “Disney’s Folly” because of the hundreds of artists and technicians involved in its animation, the movie was a box-office smash on its release and has remained a family favorite ever since. Renowned Russian director Sergey Eisenstein (1898–1948) called it the greatest film ever made. With its blend of movement and color, its extravagant collage of animated birds and other wildlife, its music, and its mix of comedy and horror, “Snow White” is indeed a work of art.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.