I have never believed the mythical, Hobbit like, dwarfs in Snow White where the same as the people who have the genetic condition we refer to as dwarfism today. In 1937 when the animated version came out, most people used the now pejorative “midget” to describe that condition. For instance in 1939 most of the 124 people with dwarfism cast in the Wizard of Oz where from “Singer’s Midgets Troupe. To me, the dwarfs of Snow White where more like garden gnomes or those small Dutch guys Rip Van Winkle met up in those hills.
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John
I have never believed the mythical, Hobbit like, dwarfs in Snow White where the same as the people who have the genetic condition we refer to as dwarfism today. In 1937 when the animated version came out, most people used the now pejorative “midget” to describe that condition. For instance in 1939 most of the 124 people with dwarfism cast in the Wizard of Oz where from “Singer’s Midgets Troupe. To me, the dwarfs of Snow White where more like garden gnomes or those small Dutch guys Rip Van Winkle met up in those hills.
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