Snow White Christmas
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A Snow White Christmas, released in 1980 is a Christmas
cartoon-movie that is 50 minutes long and dedicated to the young child
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to the original Snow White
story with some elements of the original story. Snow White and her husband Prince Charming (now known as King Charming as he has been crowned
and he and Snow White are now the rulers of the land) have a young daughter; also named Snow White for her snow white hair. In honour of Christmas, the royal family decides to host a festival.
Meanwhile, the Wicked Queen asks her magic mirror who is the fairest. When it replies that there are two who are equally fair, she accuses it of taking the coward's way out by saying that she and Snow White are equally fair, only for it to answer that it was talking about two Snow Whites. When the Queen hears of this, she is furious. Upon hearing about the festival, she sees it as a chance to finally kill her rivals.
In the midst of the celebrations, the Queen creates an ice storm, and freezes the entire kingdom, just barely missing the princess Snow White. The girl is horrified to see her parents turned to ice, and runs away with her bumbling friend Grunyon the dwarf.
After running into the forest, Snow White and Grunyon accidentally wander into a giant vegetable patch, and are scared when seven giants appear - Thinker, Finicky, Corny, Brawny, Tiny, Hicker, Weeper - and mistake them for bugs, trying to squash them. Snow White starts crying, and Grunyon scolds the giants, who apologize and introduce themselves through song. After hearing the story, they take pity on Snow White and Grunyon, and allow them to stay in their cottage.
When the Queen discovers this, she first turns herself into a giant rat to attack Snow White, but is foiled when one of the giants returns home. They decide to bring Snow White to work, carving rivers, but the queen melts all the ice on the mountains to form a deluge, which Brawny protects her from. The giants decide to leave Snow White at home and post a guard. The queen then turns the vultures into wyvern-like creatures to distract Hicker, the guard, and tricks Snow White into smelling the scent of a poisoned flower that puts her to sleep, just as she tricked Snow White's mother with the apple. She believes that there will be no miracle rescue this time.
However, Hicker's hiccups are loud and the other giants hear them. They get back to the cottage. Seeing Snow White apparently dead, they run off to defeat the Queen. The Queen tries to immobilize them with lightning, but Brawny is too tough for it. She then summons seven demons to fight the giants, but Hicker begins hiccuping and causes an earthquake. The quake causes the magic mirror to shatter, but only after it reveals that it is the source of the Queen's life and power. With the mirror's destruction, the Queen evaporates into nothingness.
With the Queen's defeat, the spell she placed over the kingdom is broken. Grunyon and the Giants bring Snow White home to her parents in a coffin. They are saddened at their daughter's fate, and kiss her cheeks. And, as before, the kisses awaken Snow White and everyone is happy. Brawny reveals then that he rebuilt the wicked Queen's castle to be used as a place where all the children of Noel can play together, a dream of the young Snow White.
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
cartoon-movie that is 50 minutes long and dedicated to the young child
Child
Biologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...
ren.
Plot summary
The movie is a sequelSequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
to the original Snow White
Snow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
story with some elements of the original story. Snow White and her husband Prince Charming (now known as King Charming as he has been crowned
Coronation
A coronation is a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch and/or their consort with regal power, usually involving the placement of a crown upon their head and the presentation of other items of regalia...
and he and Snow White are now the rulers of the land) have a young daughter; also named Snow White for her snow white hair. In honour of Christmas, the royal family decides to host a festival.
Meanwhile, the Wicked Queen asks her magic mirror who is the fairest. When it replies that there are two who are equally fair, she accuses it of taking the coward's way out by saying that she and Snow White are equally fair, only for it to answer that it was talking about two Snow Whites. When the Queen hears of this, she is furious. Upon hearing about the festival, she sees it as a chance to finally kill her rivals.
In the midst of the celebrations, the Queen creates an ice storm, and freezes the entire kingdom, just barely missing the princess Snow White. The girl is horrified to see her parents turned to ice, and runs away with her bumbling friend Grunyon the dwarf.
After running into the forest, Snow White and Grunyon accidentally wander into a giant vegetable patch, and are scared when seven giants appear - Thinker, Finicky, Corny, Brawny, Tiny, Hicker, Weeper - and mistake them for bugs, trying to squash them. Snow White starts crying, and Grunyon scolds the giants, who apologize and introduce themselves through song. After hearing the story, they take pity on Snow White and Grunyon, and allow them to stay in their cottage.
When the Queen discovers this, she first turns herself into a giant rat to attack Snow White, but is foiled when one of the giants returns home. They decide to bring Snow White to work, carving rivers, but the queen melts all the ice on the mountains to form a deluge, which Brawny protects her from. The giants decide to leave Snow White at home and post a guard. The queen then turns the vultures into wyvern-like creatures to distract Hicker, the guard, and tricks Snow White into smelling the scent of a poisoned flower that puts her to sleep, just as she tricked Snow White's mother with the apple. She believes that there will be no miracle rescue this time.
However, Hicker's hiccups are loud and the other giants hear them. They get back to the cottage. Seeing Snow White apparently dead, they run off to defeat the Queen. The Queen tries to immobilize them with lightning, but Brawny is too tough for it. She then summons seven demons to fight the giants, but Hicker begins hiccuping and causes an earthquake. The quake causes the magic mirror to shatter, but only after it reveals that it is the source of the Queen's life and power. With the mirror's destruction, the Queen evaporates into nothingness.
With the Queen's defeat, the spell she placed over the kingdom is broken. Grunyon and the Giants bring Snow White home to her parents in a coffin. They are saddened at their daughter's fate, and kiss her cheeks. And, as before, the kisses awaken Snow White and everyone is happy. Brawny reveals then that he rebuilt the wicked Queen's castle to be used as a place where all the children of Noel can play together, a dream of the young Snow White.
Similarities to Disney film
While this is a sequel to the original story and not the 1937 Disney film, there are some similarities. The most obvious is the Magic Mirror. In both, the slave of the Mirror is portrayed as a drama mask in darkness. In both, the seven friends include a grim and taciturn individual who, despite seemingly not liking Snow White, ultimately leads the charge against the Evil Queen who has disguised herself as an old woman and whom they chase up a cliff. In both, a pair of vultures watches the Evil Queen intently.Actors
- Erika ScheimerErika ScheimerErika Scheimer is an occasional voice-actress in the cartoons of the defunct Filmation animation-studio. She is the daughter of Lou Scheimer, who was an integral member of Filmation and a voice actor in his own right....
as Snow White (voice) - Arte JohnsonArte JohnsonArthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson is an American comic actor. Johnson was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Verrrry interesting, but...['stupid', 'not very funny', and other variations]".-Early life:Johnson...
as Finicky/Corny/Tiny/Brawny/Hicker/Weeper/Villager (voice) - Melendy BrittMelendy BrittMelendy Britt is an American actress active in television and voice acting since the 1970s. Her most notable animated work is for Filmation, voicing characters such as She-Ra, Princess Adora, and the second animated Batgirl...
as Wicked Queen (voice) - Diane PershingDiane PershingDiane Pershing, born and raised in Queens, New York, is a romance novelist, television writer and voice actor.She wrote episodes for the television series The Love Boat and What's Happening Now!!...
as Queen (voice) - Charlie Dell as Grunyon (voice)
- Larry D. MannLarry D. MannLarry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...
as Mirror (voice) - Clinton SundbergClinton SundbergClinton Sundberg was a stage and film character actor.Sundberg was born in Appleton, Minnesota on December 7, with sources differing on his year of birth...
as Thinker (voice)
Creators
- Executive Producers: Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott
- Producer: Don Christensen
- Directed by Kay Wright
- Screenplay by Marc Richards
- Production Designers: Herb Hazelton, Carol Lundberg
- Key Assistant: Mike Hazy
- Layout: Randy Black, Franco Cristofani, David A. Dunnet, Larry Eikleberry, Sharon Forward, Sergio Garcia, Ed Haney, Wes Herschensohn, David Hoover, Richard Hoover, Mary Jorgensen, Les Kaluza, John Koch, Lorenzo E. Martinez, Michael Mitchell, Greg Nocon, Phil Norwood, Lew Saw, Jim Simon, Cliff Voorhees, Curt Walstead, David West, Bill Wray
- Storyboard: Bob Kline, John Dorman
- Background Supervisor: Erv Kaplan
- Backgrounds: Barbara Benedetto, Alan Bodner, Sheila Brown, Tom O'Loughlin, Curtiss Perkins, Don Schweikert, Don Watson
- Animators: Bob Arkwright, John Allan Armstrong, Tom Baron, Jim Brummett, Kent Butterworth, Jeff Etter, Ed Freidman, John Garling, Lou Kachivas, Chrystal Russell, Marsh Lamore, Steve Marsh, Bill Nunes, Frank Onaitis, Bill Pratt, Don Ruch, Don Schloat, Ernie Schmidt, Larry Silverman, Nick Stern, Dardo Velez, Gwen Wetzler, Larry White, Kay Wright, Lou Zukor
- Animation Clean-Up Supervisor: Marlene Robinson
- Animation Check Supervisor: Joyce Gard
- Xerography Supervisor: John Remmel
- Ink and Paint Manager: Alla Marshall
- Camera Manager: R.W. Pope
- Camera Operators: Dan Larsen, David Link, Lindsay Rogers, Dean Teves, Steven Wilzbach, F.T. Ziegler
- Supervising Editor: George Mahana
- Film Editor: Joe Gall
- Sound Editor: Sam Horta
- Music Supervised, Arranged and Conducted by Dean Andre
- Additional Music by Jeff Michael, Yvette Blais
- Music Editor: Jerry Cohen
- Production Manager: Joseph Simon
- Production Control: Bob Wilson
- Production Coordinators: June Gilham, Toni Christiansen
- Production Supervised by Joe Mazzuca
- Color by Technicolor
- From Filmation Associates, a TelePrompTer Company
- (c) Copyright Filmation Associates, Inc. 1980