Revealing mistake: The film contains a few animation glitches which usually only last a frame or two. These could have been fixed during the film's digital restoration, but were left in, presumably because the restorers didn't want to alter a single detail of the original animation. A prime example occurs when Snow White is leading the animals to the Dwarfs' cottage. As she approaches the door, a fawn steps in front of her, and its head completely disappears for one frame.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, David Hand, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell
Starring: Eddie Collins, Lucille La Verne, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell
Other mistake: When the Dwarfs first leave the mine entrance, the first few animation cells seem to have been omitted, so that at first the entrance is empty and then the Dwarfs appear out of thin air.
Grumpy: Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They're full of wicked wiles.
Bashful: What are wicked wiles?
Grumpy: I don't know, but I'm agin' 'em.
Trivia: When making this movie, Walt Disney turned the script into a comic at first and they used these "comic strips" to move around shots and scenes, replace things and generally see what would work or not. This technique is now known as storyboarding and pretty much every single movie production uses it.
Question: Why does the queen, when she's an old hag, walk all the way to the dwarves' cottage? Why doesn't she have her servants transport her there?
Answer: Probably because she is doing everything in secret. Servants have a tendency to talk to others.
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