Snow White. (1933)

On the home stretch to Hallowe'en, so maybe a few extra uploads coming!

Fleischer Studios dates back to the primordial era of theatrical animation. Unlike most everyone else, who wound up aping Disney in the '30s, they had their own gritty style. One that often seemed to run on High-Octane Nightmare Fuel. (And maybe cocaine or opium.)

In the silent era, they introduced Koko the Clown to demonstrate their invention (rotoscoping). His sidekick dog Fitz evolved (in very irregular steps) into Bimbo, their initial sound-era star. Bimbo's girlfriend ultimately evolved from anthropomorphic dog to fully human as Betty Boop, Fleischer's best-known original character.

Here we see all three characters in a version of Snow White that predates Disney's color feature film by a few years. You may recall that film had some spooky scenes. Well, this one-reel short has no deficiencies in that department either.

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