On Screen @ The Hyde: Snow White (1916) with a live score by Leslie McMichael

Sep 27, 2pm

$20 / $18 members & seniors

Everyone knows Disney’s classic animated film Snow White, but few are aware that a teenage Walt Disney growing up in Kansas City saw the original silent movie of the fairy tale, and it was this 1916 silent that inspired him to blaze a path in filmmaking and make his own version in 1937.

Like all silent films, Snow White was made on flammable nitrate film stock, and for many years it was rumored to have been destroyed in a vault fire. But a single theatrical print was discovered in the Netherlands in 1992, and a heroic restoration was performed by the George Eastman House film archive.

In 2016 Northwest Film Forum commissioned harpist-composer Leslie McMichael to compose a new score for Snow White, and now she tours the country.

McMichael will perform live on the concert harp for the 63-minute film, and her original score also features her sister Barbara McMichael on viola.