Vultures (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

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The vultures are minor characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

[edit] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The two vultures are first seen watching the The Evil Queen cackling to herself as she makes her way to the Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. They appear to sense an imminent death, and smiling to each other, quietly follow her. At the cottage, they watch the events from a tree; the animals of the forest notice this and, realising that Snow White is in danger, try to chase away the Evil Queen; however, Snow White, seeing no danger in the old woman, lets her in the house. The animals fetch the Seven Dwarfs while the Evil Queen succeeds in persuading Snow White to eat the Poisoned Apple. When the dwarfs arrive to see the Evil Queen leaving the cottage, they pursue her. The vultures hover above the Evil Queen, and, when she reaches the cliff, land on a branch above her. After she has fallen from the cliff, the vultures fly down to her body (not shown on-screen).

[edit] Trivia

• The sequence in which the vultures watch the evil Queen fall to her death, then fly down to her body, impressed Sylvia Moberly-Holland enough to inspire her to apply as an Inspirational Sketch Artist at the Disney studio^[1].
• In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Judge Doom was going to have a pet vulture named Voltaire. The vulture’s design was going to be based on one of the vultures form Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The character ended up being deleted from the final film due to the interest of finishing the film on schedule. However, the character still appears in the original Judge Doom action figure.
• A vulture similar to these two appears in "A Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of Fantasia which flies away from the gallows it was sitting on, only for ghosts of hanged criminals to fly up to Chernabog.

[edit] References

1. ↑ John Canemaker, "Before the Animation Begins: The Life and Times of Disney inspirational Sketch Artists"