“The Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”, 1951. Russian animation with English subtitles
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“WE CANNOT LAY HER IN THE DARK EARTH” SAID THE DWARFS AND SO THEY HAD A TRANSPARENT GLASS COFFIN MADE SO THAT SHE COULD BE SEEN FROM EVERY SIDE / LAID HER IN IT AND WROTE ON IT HER NAME AND THAT SHE WAS A KINGS DAUGHTER THEN THEY CARRIED THE COFFIN INTO THE WOOD AND SOME OF THEM / ALWAYS WATCHED HER AND THE BIRDS ALSO CAME AND BEWAILED SNOWDROP FIRST AN OWL THEN A RAVEN AND LASTLI A DOVE / SO SNOWDROP LAY A LONG TIME IN HER COFFIN LOOKINGS AS THOUGH SHE WERE ASLEEP. [-] Grimm.”
by Marianne Stokes, c. 1880-1890
“Snow White” illustrations by Charles B. Falls, 1913
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Best character in anything ever.

Original concept art by Gustaf Tenggren, 1937
Betty Boop in “Snow-White”, 1933. Featuring the great Cab Calloway performing “St. James Infirmary Blues” as a rotoscoped dancing ghost against some wonderfully phantasmagorical backgrounds.
