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Snow White was the first full-length American cel-animated film
Disney's 1937 gamble took three years to make
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered in December 1937 and was the first full-length cel-animated feature produced in the United States. Industry observers called it Disney's Folly while it was being made, but it became a huge success and earned a special Academy Award in 1939.
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