The film, the first animated feature ever, premiered on December 21, 1937, at the Carthay Circle Theater in Hollywood.

The film cost $1.4 million to make, and featured such classic songs as "Someday My Prince Will Come," "Heigh-Ho," and "Whistle While You Work."

More than 750 artists worked on the film, which took three years to produce.

Disney got the idea for the film when he was a newsboy in Kansas City nd he saw a major presentation of a silent film version of the story.

Disney's version received a special Academy Award® in 1939 consisting of one full-size Oscar and seven dwarf Oscars, presented to Walt Disney by Shirley Temple.

For a while, the film was the highest-grossing picture of all time, until it was surpassed by GONE WITH THE WIND. The original worldwide gross was $8.5 million, a figure that would translate into several hundreds of millions in today's dollars.

In England, the film was deemed too scary for children, and those under 16 had to be accompanied by a parent.