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Films
van Doren, Mark | January 22, 1938 issue

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The article discusses motion pictures and performances. The question which everybody must have asked in advance about producer Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was whether it would justify its length. Not only was the film to be many times longer than anything Disney had done; it was to tell a story which he could be imagined as telling in the accustomed time. A fairy tale like an anecdote is by definition brief, and its form helps its content to be credible. The fact that everybody likes "Snow White and the Dwarfs" is not necessarily an answer, though it has its importance.

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MOTION picture producers & directors; DISNEY, Walt, 1901-1966; DWARFS; MOTION picture industry; CULTURAL industries
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