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- We'll never do Hamlet.
- Want to bet?

5 seconds sound clip from the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:43:21 in the radio play.

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[...]

- So one day the handsome young locomotive says to his beloved...

- Baby, we gotta make tracks!

- Well, in a crude way, that's the idea. But let's get serious, Walt.

- In making your pictures, do you follow any ironclad rules?

- Just one. Never do anything that somebody else can do better.

- That's why we ordinarily sidestep stories that could be done successfully in live action instead of animated action.

- What about the future, as the art of animating human figures develops?

- We'll never do Hamlet.

- Want to bet?

- Well, to be honest, our medium is so young and so unexplored and so fascinating, that we have to guard against daydreaming. We have too many immediate problems.

- And I think my most immediate problem is to let you get back to the play.

- Sit down then, Walt, but don't go away. We'll be calling on you a little later.

- Once again, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

- Through black of night, the jealous queen, her deadly charm devised, flies toward the cottage in the glen, as a witch disguised.

[...]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) Sound Clip

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)Quotes with sound bites from The Lux Radio Theater's play of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, featuring Walt Disney as guest of honor. First broadcast on December 26, 1938.

Actors: Thelma Hubbard (Snow White), Stuart Buchanan (Grumpy Dwarf), Roy Atwill (Doc Dwarf), Billy Gilbert (Sneezy Dwarf), Lou Merrill (Sleepy Dwarf), J. Scott Smart (Bashful Dwarf), Walt Disney (Himself)

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