DISNEY WASN'T DOPEY THE CLASSIC `SNOW WHITE', NOW ON TAPE, BECAME ONE OF FILMDOM'S EARLIEST GLOBAL HITS FIVE STAR Edition

FOR THE FIRST time, Walt Disney's greatest gamble (and triumph), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," is being issued on videocassette, and the classic, priced at $26.99 (with rebates and discounts plentiful) could hit a sales mark of 25 million units. The father of Mickey Mouse had ano...

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Published inSt. Louis post-dispatch
Main Author Bill Diehl Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis, Mo Pulitzer, Inc 09.11.1994
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Summary:FOR THE FIRST time, Walt Disney's greatest gamble (and triumph), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," is being issued on videocassette, and the classic, priced at $26.99 (with rebates and discounts plentiful) could hit a sales mark of 25 million units. The father of Mickey Mouse had another memorable offspring in Snow White. Shortly after completion of the studio's "experiment" in 1937, Walt Disney said, "We've worked hard and spent a lot of money - and by this time, we're all a little tired of it." Disney, with bank loans piled atop bank loans, tottered on the brink of bankruptcy. What would public reaction be to his feature-length animated cartoon version of the familiar fairy tale? Punsters had a field day: "Disney outlook Grimm," said one headline, a reference to the story's source.