The first full-length animated feature film to come out of the United States. (The first ever were El apóstol and Sin dejar rastros by Quirino Cristiani but both films are considered lost. The oldest full-length animated feature film that can still be seen today is Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, which clocks in at 65 minutes, and was animated entirely in silhouette.)
The movie was to start with scenes involving Snow White's mother, but they had to be cut to avoid the wrath of the censor.
The Prince was originally a much more major character, but the difficulty found in animating him convincingly forced the animators to reduce his part significantly.
There are only 11 human characters in the film - Snow White, the Dwarfs, the Queen, the Prince, and the Huntsman.
To give Snow White a more natural look, some of the ink and paint artists started applying their own rouge on her cheeks. When Walt Disney asked one how they would apply the rouge correctly for each cel, she responded, "What do you think we've been doing all our lives?"
To keep the animators' minds working, Walt Disney instituted his "Five Dollars a Gag" policy. One notable example of this policy is when Ward Kimball suggested that the dwarfs' noses should pop one by one over the foot boards while they were peeking at Snow White.
Was the first film to ever have a soundtrack recording album released for it.
Was the first of many Disney films to have its premiere engagement at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. At the end of the film's initial engagement there, all the velvet seat upholstery had to be replaced. It seems that young children were so frightened by the sequence of Snow White lost in the forest that they wet their pants, and consequently the seats, at each and every showing of the film.
When comedian Billy Gilbert found out that one of the dwarfs' names was Sneezy he called up Walt Disney and gave him his famous sneezing gag and got the part.
When Snow White is wakened by the Prince's kiss, she kisses six of the Dwarfs goodbye. The only one she does not kiss is Sleepy.
When the movie was released, it was generally accepted that the correct plural form of "dwarf" was "dwarfs". J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" (published a year earlier) and later "Lord of the Rings" gradually popularized the uncommon variant "dwarves", so that the dwarfs in this movie are today often erroneously referred to as "dwarves" and the title even given as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".
Adriana Caselotti received a salary of $970 for being the voice of Snow White in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.