Snow White (1916) with Live Harp & Viola Score

Many know Disney’s classic animated film, but few are aware that 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 make his own version. 

Like all silent films, it was made on flammable nitrate film stock and for many years 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 create a new score, which she’s now bringing to The Clinton Street Theater! 

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. Come see this classic film in a fun, new way.