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REVIEW: MOVIE Everybody but Disney thought "Snow White" was a mistake Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! revious box office records wh Heigh Ho! golden anniversary it return Join the Celebration at a Theatre Near You! CLASSIC Jaw now COMING THIS THANKSGIVING ROM PICT RES STARTS TODAY Hocus Pocus J4KNicholson Queen into a witch who traumatized children around the world and the (light from the dwarfs up a stony mountainside during a mag nificent thunderstorm Disney seemed to especially ex cel at rendering evil one of the ironies of a man who came to repre sent sometimes cloying cuteness and wholesomeness that his villain esses from the Wicked Queen to Cruella De Ville were so spectacu lar When the queen kicked a water jug at a skeleton chained in her dungeon and cackled Here have a children shiv ered nationwide According to leg end they were so terrified of the queenwitch that after the first few idea to his staff acting out all the parts himself Three years and $15 million later (triple the budget orig inally planned) his future was as sured At the premiere the audience stood up and cheered critics gulped back tears and lovingly analyzed the character development of Grumpy and Dopey and colleagues voted him an Oscar plus seven lit tle dwarf size Oscars "Snow White" is 83 minutes of richly beautiful animation Every frame of it was discussed labored on and fussed over by Disney and an overworked underpaid and ded icated staff of hundreds It shows It is almost impossible to pick out memorable scenes because all memorable: Snow face reflected in the water of the well as she sings Her terrified flight into the forest reeling under enor mous leering trees eyes every where The dance in the dwarf cot tage first bath in a year The transformation of the Wicked By EILEEN JONES Staff Reviewer EIGH HO! Walt Disney's White and the Seven is 50 the first freshest and arguably still the fai rest one of all his features Today looking at its mythic sta tus as a classic with single painted celluloids from the film selling to collectors for $30000 hard to imagine that animating the Grimm fairy tale could ever have been con sidered a gamble in Hollywood But it was Disney had in essence bet the studio Mickey Mouse built that au diences would sit through a feature length cartoon The movie industry jeered His brother and partner Roy predicting bankruptcy begged him to stick with Mickey Mouse shorts His wife told him to sleep on the couch That the film was ever made at all is a tribute to stubbornness as well as his creativi ty in 1934 Disney presented the Cher Susan Sarandon Michelle Pfeiffer It shattered all previous box office records when it first opened and went on to become one of the most popular films of all time Now upon its golden anniversary it returns to enchant movie goers around the world once again It created an entirely new art form and set the standard for quality filmed entertainment weeks played at Ra dio City Music Hall the seats were soaked through and had to be re placed The finished film was distilled from literally millions of sketches and drawings orty odd possible dwarfs with names like Shifty and Hoppy Jumpy were weeded through to get to the famous seven Promis ing footage that was judged extra neous to the flow of the story was ruthlessly edited out A wonderful raucous scene of the dwarfs slurp ing up soup was cut at the last minute Disney was determined to pare the film down to the simplest possible form containing the most extravagant imagery WHEN IN LORIDA VISIT IIIWWr To Disney was a great experiment in animation not a crowning achievement The studio had to invent the techniques and equipment needed to achieve the ef fects he had in mind White and the Seven opens today in its sixth' national release Among the hordes of children who crowd to the the aters there will doubtless be just as many adults Those without children to give them an alibi will probably be mut tering something about only being there out of an aesthetic love of animation a good reason to go even if it's rarely the true rea son GENERAL AUDIENCES All Ages Admitted IRST TIME IN nniOOLBY STEREOg Distributed by BUENA VISTA PICTURES DISTRIBUTION SELECTE THLATRES (T I937 The Walt Disney Company Heigh Ho! It was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and has remained one of the greatest achievements in motion picture history liir Witches ofEstwick WNlKhKlb (iUMK rtlUfttOMHW PUCWIX ntWmwsct Lasiwk kpcWWx (HIX Sl vV 'iWWIX'N Mk HIJLU'rtWK V0NrA (WiHT John wii ms John Inw i PUNIXMJNfooCOHBI snt canton pmtiiiBa? Jun Pnw iua if iMMI IT MtlHIII rnnfeffwar Jt ffl maj ArrlXv IB nUwajfi Now Playing General Cinema General Cinema AMC UNIVERSITY McKINLEY 6 HOLIDAY 6 BLVD MALL McKINLEY MILE STRIP 3801 UNION RD 837 8373 824 3479 684 0700 General Cinema AMC AM RADIO SOUND General Cinema UNIVERSITY COMO 8 BUALO DRIVE IN SENECA MALL BLVD MALL APPLETREE MALL 3005 HARLEM RO WEST SENECA 837 8373 681 3100 893 0406 826 3413 GUSTORIDAY July 17 1987 Poge 29.