They Made the Magic: Hugh Fraser

Hugh Fraser was born in Montana on August 15,1904.  He joined the Disney studios as an animator begining on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  He continued with the studios working on Pinocchio, Dumbo, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland.  He left the Disney studios in the mid fifties and joined Hanna Barbara working on Smurfs and Scooby-do among others.  In 1987 Fraser was awarded the Golden Award by the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Award.  Fraser passed away in 1994.

They Made the Magic: Ray Lockrem

Born on August 14, Ray Lockrem was an artist for Walt Disney Studio.  He was a background artist on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo.  In addition, he was background artist on the Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria segments and on The Reluctant Dragon.

They Made the Magic: Dick Rickard

Dick Rickard was a screenwriter/story adapter for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.   He worked on several shorts for Disney including The Old Mill, The Country Cousin, and Mother Goose Goes Hollywood.  On the Practical Pig and Ferdinand the Bull he acted as a director.

Paper crafts

Looking for a project to do?  Check out these Snow White inspired paper crafts:
Disney's family website features a variety of crafts and recipes for each film.  There are several very cute paper projects featuring Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White, The Evil Queen, and an Evil Queen mask.
Paper crafts square also has two Disney inspired paper crafts: a mini Evil Queen and Snow White's Wishing Well.

Walt Disney Signature Line

A variety of specialty Snow White art, home, and fashion pieces are available with the Walt Disney Signature Line.

Finding Snow White in California Adventure Part 2

In 2010 I wrote an article about all the places you can find Snow White in Disney's California Adventure.  Well, now that it's Disney California Adventure, it's time to update that article.  Hollywood Land, name change aside, has remained more or less the same in terms of the Snow White references.  However, there is quite a lot of Snow White to see in Buena Vista Street.
The most obvious reference is the Carthay Circle Restaurant.  See my review from earlier this month.
There is another reference to Snow White inside Fiddler, Fifer, & Practical Cafe there is a bulletin board:

The board is filled with many references to many early Disney projects.  Adriana refers to the voice of Snow White whose father was a vocal coach and received a casting phone call that Adriana picked up and promoted herself on.

The largest addition of references to Snow White is the Carthay Cirlce Theatre.  This is the new grand icon in Disney California Adventure.  The original theatre no longer exists but in 1937 it was the location for the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiere.  To see all the the references to Snow White see an earlier article just on this new restaurant.

They Made the Magic: Bill Roberts

William Opal Roberts was born on August 2, 1899.  In 1922 his family made the move from Kentucky to California.  Roberts worked in New York as an illustrator for a while.  He joined the Disney Studios in 1932 where he did a lot of work on Pluto.  He began working on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs primarily working on the dwarfs. You can see his work when the Doc leads the group to the house ever so cautiously after noticing the lights one, the dwarfs working at the mine and discovering the Queen got Snow White, and the chase scene that follows.  He also worked on scenes that hit the cutting room floor.
Milt Khal worked as Roberts assistant, thus Roberts was one of the inspirational people that helped train the nine old men.  Khal recalled working under Roberts and his very different style of animation: he referred to Roberts as one of the fast-action boys.
 He earned the role of director and directed some of the sequences in Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi.
He left the animation business in the 1940's.  Roberts died in 1974.