Tannery Pond Center presents: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a silent movie with Harp by Leslie McMichael, Viola by Barbara McMichael & Narration by Robin Jay
Wednesday, October 1 | 9 AM
A FREE Event
RSVP Required, please call: 518-251-2505
ABOUT THE FILM
Everyone knows Disney’s classic animated film Snow White (1937), but few are aware that a teenage Walt Disney growing up in Kansas City saw the original silent movie of the fairy tale, and it was this 1916 silent that inspired him to blaze a path in filmmaking and make his own version in 1937.
Like all silent films, SNOW WHITE was made on flammable nitrate film stock, and for many years, it was rumored to have been destroyed in a vault fire. But a single theatrical print was discovered in the Netherlands in 1992, and a heroic restoration was performed by the George Eastman House film archive.
LIVE MUSIC
Leslie McMichael and Barbara McMichael
Harpist-composer Leslie McMichael will perform her original score live on the concert harp for the 63-minute film, accompanied by her sister Barbara McMichael on viola. The score uses recurring musical themes for each character.
NARRATION
Robin Jay, from Gem Radio Theatre, will narrate the film.
This concert is supported by a generous grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. We are grateful for their support.