Snow White (1916 film)

Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was adapted by Winthrop Ames from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale (as collected by the Grimm brothers). The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.

Contents

• Cast
• Preservation status
• Home media
• References

Fifteen years old when he saw it, Walt Disney was inspired to make it the subject of his first feature-length animated film.

Cast

Marguerite Clark as Snow White

Creighton Hale as Prince Florimond

Dorothy Cumming as Queen Brangomar

Lionel Braham as Berthold

Alice Washburn as Witch Hex

Preservation status

Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.

Home media

Snow White is included in the boxed DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000).