Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered 72 years ago today at the Carthway Circle Theatre. It was his first full-length animated feature film to be made in Technicolor.

A couple of months later it was put into general release and became a major-box office success, making four times the money than any other film released in 1938. It still registers as one of the top ten moneymaking American films of all time. Because of Snow White's success it allowed Disney to move ahead with other feature-film productions.