Snow white and the seven dwarfs is a 1937 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney productions and released by rko radio pictures based on the 1812 german fairy tale by the brothers grimm it is the first full length traditionally animated feature film and the first disney animated feature film. The story of beautiful snow white the seven dwarfs and the evil queen story reads 152742 this is a vintage fairy tale and may contain violence we would encourage parents to read beforehand if your child is sensitive to such themes once upon a time in the middle of winter when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the clouds a queen sat at her palace window which had an . English snow white and the seven dwarfs is a 1937 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney productions and originally released by rko radio pictures based on the 1812 german fairy tale by the brothers grimm it is the first full length cel animated feature film and the earliest disney animated feature film. Directed by william cottrell david hand wilfred jackson with adriana caselotti harry stockwell lucille la verne roy atwell exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household