 Noted filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin praised Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a notable achievement in cinema ; Eisenstein went so far as to call it the greatest film ever made . The film inspired Metro @-@ Goldwyn @-@ Mayer to produce its own fantasy film , The Wizard of Oz , in 1939 . Another animation pioneer , Max Fleischer , decided to produce his animated feature film Gulliver 's Travels in order to compete with Snow White . The 1941 parody Ball of Fire featured a nightclub singer disrupting the lives of seven scholars ( and Gary Cooper ) while hiding from the police . The 1943 Merrie Melodies short Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs , directed by Bob Clampett , parodies Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by presenting the story with an all @-@ black cast singing a jazz score . 
