By the time Walt and his pals had given a story the Laugh-O-gram treatment, it usually bore scant resemblance to the traditional version. The Laugh-O-grams were silent one-reel cartoons, “modernized fairy tales” that used traditional children’s stories as a springboard for satiric gags, Jazz Age references, and intertitles that indulged in puns and other verbal humor.
The first Disney version of Cinderella was produced in 1922, at the beginning of Walt’s career, when he and his friends were producing their earliest animated cartoons at the Laugh-O-gram studio in Kansas City. What is less well known is that Walt turned his filmmaking attention to the Cinderella story-on two separate occasions- before tackling the story of her fairy-tale cousin Snow White. ĭisney fans know that Walt Disney’s animated feature Cinderella was released to theaters in 1950, more than a decade after his breakthrough feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Kaufman has written this piece on the making of this classic film, exclusively for Storyboard. As Cinderella is now playing at The Walt Disney Family Museum throughout the month of April, Disney historian and author J.B.
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