Snow White (1916)

I was able to see this film by purchasing a DVD of documentary called Once Upon a Time Walt Disney, At the sources of the Art of the Disney Studios by Samuel Doux. This was available at the Grand Palais of Paris where a unique exhibit of Disney Art and European Art that inspired the Disney artists took place in 2006.
It is my pride to own some original artwork from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Disney produced this first animated color feature in part because the first feature film he saw as a child was precisely Snow White.

Until very recently, it was believed lost. Someone found it in a Dutch archive. It was later restored with the help of the play it originated from, translations of the Dutch intertitles, and was tinted. Apparently, according to a contemporary review, a sequence where a stork delivers Snow White to her mother is still missing. In the special features of the DVD I mentioned was included this silent 1916 feature starring Marguerite Clark and Dorothy Cumming. It's easy to see that Disney really drew inspiration from this film by just looking at these pictures:

Should you want to purchase it yourself, you'd have a better chance of finding the Treasures of American Film Archive DVD.
Find out more about Marguerite Clark and the film on the excellent Snow White blog : Filmic Light.

That's all for today folks!