This film is remarkable for the psychedelic experience of the time in regards to moving abstract images to represent a soundtrack rather than vice versa. The line, “I came across a studio star on the lot, the soundtrack”; was very true as this film explored the possibilities of soundtrack in a way that no other film before it really did in regards to creating a unique soundtrack that can add a lot of depth to the film as the primary narrative device of the film rather than soundtrack complementing an existing story.
This is a major case of a movie being included on this list that when viewed today seems to promote racial and sexual stereotypes that are negative, misogynistic and downright racist, and, honestly, knowing disney was a vehement anti-semite and snow white seemed to be very demeaning towards women in an objectifying manner I’m 100 percent convinced this was the case.
The broomsticks and other "lower" objects were presented a black people essentially.
It’s hard to like a movie that promotes the opposite morals than what you’d want out there. But the world was shifting into the 40’s and WW2 and morality was a very relative term at this time. You can definitely see, especially with the Hays Code, a shifting attitude towards women that became more traditional in the 30’s and laid the groundwork for the gender politics of Post ww2 America when women were expected to return home and nurse babies after the war.
This film propagates those bigoted and narrow minded attitudes in subtle ways that makes this movie quite dangerous because of how gripping it is on a sensory level. Technically and artistically this movie sucks you right in. The animation is extremely beautiful and fluid and free flowing and the music is all encompassing using a newly invented form of a stereophonic sound to completely surround you. This was an experience in medium unlike anything before it.