Many know Disney’s classic animated film, but few are aware that that a teenage Walt Disney saw the original silent movie of the fairy tale, and it was this 1916 silent that inspired him to make his own version. 

Rumored to have been destroyed in a vault fir, but a single theatrical print was discovered in the Netherlands in 1992. 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!