January 24, 2021
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) ****
Secret Movie Club Drive-In
$31
Disney animation
I expansively proclaimed that I would be watching THREE films today, if the weather held up, which it did, but no three films were to be watched. I could say this is the fault of the fact that I had unexpected dog walks, but it probably wasn’t going to happen anyway.
The film I did watch, and the reason it couldn’t be raining, was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the drive-in! It did end up raining before the picture started, but it cleared up nicely in time.
I put the movie in the Disney animation category, though it doesn’t really belong there, since I already watched it and checked it off, but it seems silly to make it a wildcard film when I have a category called Disney animation. Then I remembered that it doesn’t matter and nobody cares about this but me!
The first two movies I remember seeing were The Happiest Millionaire and Snow White, both released (or re-released) in 1967 when I was either 2 or 3 years old, Happiest Millionaire is the first movie I remember seeing in a movie theatre, and Snow White I saw, co-incidentally, at the drive-in! They were such a big thing when I was little, who knew all it took for them to come roaring back was a lil plague?
My Snow White memory is that I was so terrified of the Wicked Queen, pre-transformation, when she was still beautiful, that I told my mom that I had to go to the bathroom. What I didn’t realize was that the bathroom was underneath the gigantic screen, so I had to walk TOWARDS the Wicked Queen! That’ll stick in your memory, no matter how young you were.
I am less afraid of the Wicked Queen these days, though she still is pretty scary! But basically, I do love this movie, especially Grumpy.
365 Films in 365 Days 