![]() ![]() She brews the potion in her cauldron and dips an ordinary apple into it as the Raven watches silently. Looking through her spellbook, she comes to the recipe for the Sleeping Death, and, reading of the poisoned apple's effects, decides that it's the perfect way to get rid of her. The Witch offering Snow White the Poisoned Apple.Īfter turning into the old hag, the Evil Queen declares that her stepdaughter, Snow White, should suffer "a special sort of death". This sequence would have occurred immediately after the scene of the Seven Dwarfs going to sleep in their cottage the sequence would have been followed by the scene in which the Witch dips the apple into the brew to make it poisonous.Īppearances Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Smoke from the cauldron then begins to fill the room. Brew the magic recipe, boil, cauldron, BOIL!" Death within thy depths I see, for one who dares to rival me. She pauses to see that the smoke rising from the brew is shaped like skulls, and adds a drop of an unknown ingredient to the concoction: In the sequence, the Raven looks on as the Witch stirs the cauldron with a huge bone off an unknown animal. There was also a very short sequence involving the Witch stirring her cauldron that was fully animated and completed, and was among the scenes cut from the film by Walt Disney at the last minute. The music changes as the apple changes and could stay that way until she says, "Have a bite." It would be a good contrast." Richard Creedon: "Admiring the apple as if she'd like to eat it herself - "Pink as a maiden's blush." īoth ideas were used in the final film innocent music is playing when the apple turns red, and the Witch appears to admire it briefly before offering it cruelly to the Raven. Walt Disney: "The thought just struck me on the buildup of the music where she says, "Now turn red, etc." Where it starts you might go into innocent, sweet music while she is saying something about how innocent it looks. The scene of the Witch preparing the poisoned apple was discussed in a story conference in 1936: Thank you.In the stages of the film, the apple was a story element that was to deliver a significant impact to the film's tone and transition. ![]() California residents are subject to sales tax. Purchaser will be charged $16.00 to $30.00 (depending on location) for freight and insurance for delivery via Priority Mail within USA $46.00 for Priority Mail International (insured) for shipment outside of USA $36.00 Priority Mail International (insured) to Canada. There is light handling from the animation process: VERY FINE condition. Our certificate of authenticity is included. ![]() ![]() The drawing is handsomely framed to display the animation sheet in its entirety. The animator wrote the studio designation ∱080 at upper right to indicate this original's place in the scene studio stamp denoting production, sequence and scene numbers appears at lower left. I'm sorry." As the camera moves in on the Witch's face she continues to work on Snow White by pretending to have a weak heart: "Oh, my heart." Her fiendish gaze, focused on the apple, her evil grin, even the crook of her outstretched hand perfectly convey her murderous obsession. The Witch recovers the apple and polishes it on her cloak as Snow White rushes to comfort her: "There, there. Standing outside the cottage, the Witch proffers the poisoned apple to Snow White, but the birds dive in to knock it from her hand. Animation of the Witch was the work of Norm Ferguson, one of only four supervising animators credited on the film. This splendid final animation drawing of the Wicked Queen as the Old Witch (or Hag) was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of Walt Disney's first animated feature, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Red, green and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 7.5" x 6" ![]()
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