What is the running time of Snow White (in minutes)?

The running time of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is 83 minutes. That length made it a true feature film at a time when animated cartoons were usually short subjects.

The film premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles on December 21, 1937, and entered general U.S. release on February 4, 1938. Its 83-minute structure gave Disney’s artists room to develop a sustained story involving Snow White, the Queen, the dwarfs, the forest, and the climactic transformation into the Witch.

People sometimes remember the film as 90 minutes because many later animated features run close to that length, but the commonly listed theatrical runtime is 83 minutes. It is also much longer than a typical Silly Symphony short, which helped make the project seem commercially dangerous before release. The film’s feature length was central to its historical importance: it demonstrated that audiences would remain engaged with a full-length animated story.