I have not the least hesitation in recommending "Snow White" to all he adults of my acquaintance, and n urging them to go and take their children, writes C. A. Lejeune in the "Sunday Observ With am its faults, this is the sort of film that happens once-in a generation. Tt is as necessary a part of our film up. bringing as "The Birth of a Nation" or "The Jazz Singer." Crude, tentative, and born of compromise it may be, but it is still history in the making. As for its "terrors" for children, I don't believe in one of them.
The witch would not frighten a kindergarten child. As for the scene in the wood, where Snow White is haunted by gleaming eyes, Disney himself has his own justification. Daylight comes, and the green glare is shown to be the eyes of the forest creatures, rabbits, squirrels, deer, themselves startled and bewildered.
Snow White coaxes them, makes friends with them, apologises for her errors in words that should be pinned up over the night light in every nursery. "You don't know what I've been through. All because I was afraid. I'm so ashamed of the fuss I made!"
Disney's "Snow White" ends with a cloud castle in the sunset, ud "So they lived happily ever after."
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