It's Monday, March 24, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news

and events from a Christian worldview. About a half century ago, European psychologist Bruno

Betelheim went back to look at fairy tales. And his argument in his book entitled

The Uses of Enchantment is that fairy tales play a very important role in children going into

maturity. They tell things to children. They convey truth to children that children need to know.

Going all the way back to the Brothers Grim and their famous tales, he made the point that many of these stories,

they include very practical information children need to know,

such as don't go into dark forests alone.

It's a dangerous place.

But they are also charming stories,

and that's one of the reasons why they have been passed down

from generation to generation, and one of the most famous of those fairy tales is Snow White. But there's actually

quite a fairy tale about the fairy tale of Snow White. Of course, Disney is releasing an updated

version of Snow White, and all of your defense mechanisms should go into full alert at this point.

But let's go back and remind ourselves of a little history.

If you go back to the original Disney production Snow White, you go back almost 90 years.

You go back to 1937.

And in 1937, Disney released Snow White and it transformed the company.

Walt Disney himself, of course, was an early innovator in animation, and he had created

Steamboat Willie, eventually became Mickey Mouse.

He had also been involved in a good number of other short films, but nothing that

made a lot of money.

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