We are fittingly beginning our podcast journey with "the one that started it all," Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Being the first full length animated film Walt Disney Productions released, Snow White has cemented herself into the very backbone of what makes the Disney company. Originally released in December of 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, shortly followed by a nationwide release in February of 1938, the film was met with great commercial success and even received a special Academy Award. Because of this, animation and what was once thought of as "Walt Disney's Folly" by critics was now being seen in a new light... a more profitable light, one that kickstarted the popularity of animated full length pictures.

It's safe to say we might not have some of our favorite animated classics without the innovation tha ...