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 German
fairy tale by the
Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length
cel animated feature film and the earliest in the
Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story was adapted by
storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon,
Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander,
Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard,
Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell,
Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and
Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences.