Why Disney's 'Snow White' Almost Failed
On Sunday's ABC special Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs viewers learned that the beloved cartoon almost wasn't made. Before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs there had never been a feature length cartoon and the idea of producing such a film in the midst of the Great Depression seemed almost impossible. The film cost and $1.5 million dollars and required Disney to leverage everything it had in order to make the film. In fact Walt Disney even leveraged his car and life insurance policy toward
