What was the initial domestic box office gross of Snow White (in millions)?

What was the initial domestic box office gross of Snow White? The film’s initial domestic box office gross was about $8.5 million.

That result was extraordinary for 1937–38, especially because Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney’s first feature-length animated film. The project had cost roughly $1.5 million, an enormous sum for an animated production at the time, and industry skeptics had mocked it as “Disney’s Folly.”

The figure refers to the original release, not the film’s later theatrical re-releases. Disney brought the movie back to cinemas repeatedly, beginning in 1944 and continuing through releases such as 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1983, 1987, and 1993. Modern box-office databases therefore show much larger lifetime totals.

Some accounts describe the $8.5 million as the original worldwide or studio gross, while others label it domestic. The quiz’s intended historical figure is the widely reported initial-release total of $8.5 million.