 Following successful exclusive runs at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and a theater in Miami in January 1938 , RKO Radio Pictures put the film into general release on February 4 . It became a major box @-@ office success , making four times more money than any other motion picture released in 1938 . In its original release , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs grossed $ 3 @.@ 5 million in the United States and Canada , and by May 1939 its total international gross of $ 6 @.@ 5 million made it the most successful sound film of all time , displacing Al Jolson 's The Singing Fool ( 1928 ) ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was soon displaced from this position by Gone with the Wind in 1940 ) . By the end of its original run , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had earned $ 7 @,@ 846 @,@ 000 in international box office receipts . This earned RKO a profit of $ 380 @,@ 000 . 
