Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of December 21st.
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It is the 355th day of the year, leaving 10 days in 2021.
Today is the Winter Solstice, when because of the earth's tilt, the North Pole reaches its farthest point from the sun, meaning the northern hemisphere has its shortest period of daylight. Consequently, the South Pole is closest to the sun, meaning the southern hemisphere is in its Summer Solstice, and it has its longest period of daylight.
This new method of story telling, a twist on the then-still new presentation form of talking moving pictures, was well received. The star-studded audience gave it a standing ovations at the conclusion.
Within the week, Walt Disney and his animated cast were on the cover of Time magazine. In less than a month, Snow White opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York,
By Feb. 4, its success persuaded RKO Radio Pictures to put out the film in a general release. It quickly became the must successful "talkie" to that point.
The Snow White story was based on a century-old German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was produced by the newly formed Walt Disney Productions. It was nominated for an 1938 Academy Award for musical score, and the Academy presented Disney with a special award for the film.
It continues to be popular today, and Snow White remains one of the most popular characters in the Disney canon. In 1989, the Library of Congress, calling it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," selected it as one of the first films to be preserved in the National Film Registry. In 2008, the American Film Institute ranked it as the greatest American animated film of all time.
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