What was the first full-length animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Studios?

The first full-length animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Studios was *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*.

Released in 1937, the film was adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a princess threatened by her jealous stepmother. Walt Disney’s decision to make a feature-length animated film was widely mocked during production, but the finished movie became a landmark achievement and demonstrated that audiences would pay to watch an animated story at feature length.

The film also introduced major technical and artistic advances, including the use of multiplane-camera photography to create greater depth. It was produced in Technicolor and premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles on December 21, 1937, before its wide release in 1938.

A common mix-up is confusing Disney’s first animated feature with its first feature-length film in general. *Snow White* was the studio’s first animated feature, while later classics such as *Cinderella*, *Bambi*, and *Sleeping Beauty* followed it.