 Along with a focus on the characterizations and comedic possibilities of the dwarfs , Creedon 's eighteen @-@ page outline of the story written from the October meetings , featured a continuous flow of gags as well as the Queen 's attempt to kill Snow White with a poisoned comb , an element taken from the Grimms ' original story . After persuading Snow White to use the comb , the disguised Queen would have escaped alive , but the dwarfs would have arrived in time to remove it . After the failure of the comb , the Queen was to have the Prince captured and taken to her dungeon , where she would have come to him ( story sketches show this event both with the Queen and the Witch ) and used magic to bring the dungeon 's skeletons to life , making them dance for him and identifying one skeleton as " Prince Oswald " , an example of the more humorous atmosphere of this original story treatment . It is written in story notes that the Queen has such magical power only in her own domain , the castle . With the Prince refusing to marry her , the Queen leaves him to his death ( one sketch shows the Prince trapped in a subterranean chamber filling with water ) as she makes her way to the dwarfs ' cottage with the poisoned apple . The forest animals were to help the Prince escape the Queen 's minions and find his horse . The Prince was to ride to the cottage to save Snow White , but took the wrong road ( despite warnings from the forest animals and his horse , whom he , unlike Snow White , could not understand ) . He therefore would not have arrived in time to save her from the Queen , but would have been able to save her with love 's first kiss . This plot was not used in the final film , though many sketches of the scene in the dungeon were made by Ferdinand Hovarth . 
