Taken from ImdbDirected by:
J. Searle Dawley
Writing credits:
Winthrop Ames (written by)
Plot Summary:
This handsome version of the famous fairy tale is based on the 1912 Broadway play presented at New York's Little Theatre with great success. Supposedly disposed of by the Wicked Queen, Snow White finds her way to a happy glen and the home of seven friendly dwarfs. A deadly apple casts her into a deep sleep, from which she is revived in time by her devoted prince.
Complete credited cast:
Dorothy Cumming .... Queen Brangomar/Mary Jane (as Dorothy G. Cumming)
Creighton Hale .... Prince Florimond
Lionel Braham .... Berthold, the Huntsman
Alice Washburn .... Witch Hex
Marguerite Clark .... Snow White
User Comment:
This is the most charming version of the Grimm's tale ever done!!!, 25 October 2000
10/10
Author: John Nickolaus (nickolausj@yahoo.com) from Maplewood, MN
The 1916 film of "Snow White" is a screen adaptation of the 1912 Broadway play, written by Jessie Braham White. It tells the familiar tale of the "Stepmother from Hell" and the princess with "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night". It was thought to have been lost, until the George Eastman House located a print in a Danish film vault.....and the film world is so lucky they did!
Marguerite Clark recreates her Broadway role as "Snow White", and must have been born to play this faerie tale heroine!!! She is the epitome of this character!!!! I only wish that I was alive in 1912 to see her do the role live on stage.
Creighton Hale (The Cat and the Canary) is dashing as Prince Florimond, Snow White's love interest. It is a thankless role, but he manages to shine.
Dorothy Cumming is the vain "Queen Brangomar", Snow White's nemisis. It's ironic that years later she would play the "Virgin Mary" in "King of Kings".....quite a turn around!!!
The rest of the cast handles their roles equally as well as the above mentioned......including Lionel Braham (A Christmas Carol) as "Berthold the Huntsman", and Alice Washburn as "Witch Hex".
Hollywood folklore says that this is the film that inspired Walt Disney to create his animated classic. The similarities between the two are amazing! In the opening of the 1916 film, Snow White is a kitchen maid, going about her daily duties.....very much like Disney's heroine scrubbing the castle steps and crooning to doves. A little brown bird shows Snow White the way to the dwarfs' cottage....just like the animated animals did for her in the cartoon. She also cleans up the cottage, in both versions, before the dwarfs come home, and then falls asleep.
I highly recommend seeking out a copy of this film!!!!
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Rip Specs:
CD1:
547 MB (or 560,706 KB or 574,163,209 bytes)
00:31:34 (~56762 frms) AR: 480x480 (1.00:1) [=1:1]
29.970 FPS @ 2230 kb/s
MPEG-2 Video
MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio 0xc0:44100Hz CBR 224 kb/s total (2 chnls) , Stereo
CD2:
547 MB (or 560,627 KB or 574,082,136 bytes)
00:31:23 (~56435 frms) AR: 480x480 (1.00:1) [=1:1]
29.970 @ 2230 kb
MPEG2_Video
MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio 0xc0:44100Hz CBR 224 kb/s total (2 chnls) , Stereo
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