The Disc That Saved Hollywood

摘要

You'd think that, at 64,the decidedly dated Snow White would be headed for retirement. Disney has milked $1.1 billion out of the perky prin-cess since "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" first arrived in 1937, rereleasing the movie eight times in theaters for each successive generation, and then selling millions of videotapes in two "limited" releases. Nonetheless, Disney is going to the wishing well again. On Oct. 9, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" arrives on a next-generation DVD, and Disney CEO Michael Eisner is hoping that one bite of this apple will make shareholders forget all about "Pearl Harbor" and Disney's California Adventure. Two years in the making, "Snow White" the DVD is 15 hours of digitally compressed entertainment of-fered up in four different lan-guages and jammed onto two silvery, CD-sizediscs.