Lux Radio Hollywood Presents Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (Dec 26, 1938)

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Lux Radio Theater was a classic radio anthology series broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays[1] during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand. The show reenacted theatrical films as radio plays and was hosted by the legendary film director Cecil B. deMille.

For their Christmas 1938 program, Walt Disney appeared with most of the cast from his film Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs to retell the story to listeners at home. In the adaptation, there's a few extended versions of the songs. At the end of the show deMille interviews Walt Disney on the success of his films.

Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

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