Dwarfs' Mine

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The Dwarfs' Mine Background Information Feature Films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Television Programmes Disneyland Attractions Snow White's Scary Adventures Designer Albert Hurter Ferdinand Hovarth Inspiration Other Information Other Names Location On the edge of the Forest Inhabitants Visitors Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey Final State

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The Dwarfs' Mine is the workplace of the seven dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Every morning, the dwarfs leave their cottage and march to the mine, where they dig for diamonds. The reason for this is never explained (this is made reference to in "Heigh Ho", in which the dwarfs sing that they "don't know what we dig 'em for"). Each dwarf has a specific job: Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy dig; Sleepy transports the diamonds to Doc, who determines which diamonds should be kept; rejected diamonds are swept up and thrown away by Dopey. The dwarfs return home late every evening. As they leave for, and return from, work, the dwarfs sing "Heigh Ho".

Like all locations in the film, the mine was designed by Albert Hurter, with other artists contributing designs, as well as ideas for 'gags' for the dwarfs and mechanisms to help them in their work. The mine was realised as a three-dimensional location for the DVD's game 'Dopey's Wild Mine Ride', in which the player helped Dopey retrieve the other six dwarfs from within the mine in order for them to proceed to the cottage to save Snow White from the Witch, by solving various puzzles related to the film.