19:14 minutes (5.51 MB)
Snow White is a lot older than she looks! Versions of this fairy tale date all the way back to the Middle Ages. Around 1800, the Brothers Grimm gave us the story line we know today and of course the characters have been polished by the modern Disney machine. But consistent through the centuries has been the wicked stepmother’s vanity. Day after day she boldly, but with a hint of paranoia, stepped before her magic mirror to admire herself and ask, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” And every morning that magic mirror concurred with the fair queen that the image reflected upon it was in fact the most beautiful in the kingdom.
