ABSTRACT
As we have seen in the previous chapters, the live-action silent fairy-tale films and the early cartoons and shorts paved the way for animated feature fairy-tale films that were slow to develop because of the painstaking and meticulous preparation they demand. For instance, in producing the first two great animated films of the twentieth century, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Lotte Reiniger and Walt Disney needed three to four years to conceive, design, and realize their projects. Once they did, however, they set models and indicated the potential of fairy tales not only to serve as fillers, advertisements, and special shorts to provoke and enchant audiences, but to serve as a unique artistic means to explore the deeper meanings of fairy tales through long narrative visuals.
