Underplayed Gems

7 Wise Dwarfs (1941)

7 Wise Dwarfs poster
Directed by
Ford Beebe
Genre
propaganda film
Country
United States
Runtime
4 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This short film uses the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White to teach Canadians about buying war bonds in 1941. It reuses animation from the original movie and shows the dwarfs, especially Dopey, acting clumsy for comedy.

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What happens

7 Wise Dwarfs (also known as Seven Wise Dwarfs and Walt Disney's 7 Wise Dwarfs) is a 1941 four-minute educational short animated film made by the Walt Disney Studios for Walt Disney Productions, for the National Film Board of Canada. The film was released theatrically on December 12, 1941, as part of a series of four films directed at the Canadian public to learn about war bonds during the Second World War. 7 Wise Dwarfs was directed by Richard Lyford and featured the voice talent of Pinto Colvig as "Doc". 7 Wise Dwarfs features the Seven Dwarfs from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, four years after the characters made their screen debut. Quite a bit of the short consists of reused work from the 1937 Snow White film. The film short, for example, typically shows Dopey doing things in a clumsy, belated and confused fashion for slapstick effect (as in the original film). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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