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| Leopold Stokowski | ... |
Himself - Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra
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Deems Taylor | ... |
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Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day. Written by David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu>
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Fantasia Will Amazia! (1942 re-release) See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 July 1941 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
The Concert Feature See more »Filming Locations:
Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$2,280,000 (estimated)Gross:
$361,800 (USA) (14 February 1941)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
| (restored roadshow) | (original release) | (cut) | (VHS)Sound Mix:
3 Channel Stereo (RCA Sound System)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Narrator: How do you do? My name is Deems Taylor, and it's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here on behalf of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski, and all the other artists and musicians whose combined talents went into the creation of this new form of entertainment, "Fantasia". What you're going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists. In other words, these are not going to be the interpretations of trained ...
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(1825)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Special Lyrics by Rachel Field
Orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski (uncredited)
Sung in English by Julietta Novis and chorus
Choir Sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir (as Westminster Choir) of Westminster Choir College (uncredited) Charles Henderson,
Choral Director
Played by The Philadelphia Orchestra (as The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The Night On Bald Mountain sequence was cut from the film when originally released on video. When the sequence was shown in 1940 the studio was overrun with calls and letters from parents who complained that the sequence scared their children. It has since been restored to its original place in the film on subsequent home video releases. See more »Goofs
The creatures gathered at the dinosaur water hole include animals exclusive to different time periods. Stegosaurs lived only in the Jurassic Period, Ceratopsians only in the Cretaceous, and Dimetrodons only in the Permian. It is possible that this was not yet known in 1940. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: How do you do? My name is Deems Taylor, and it's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here on behalf of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski, and all the other artists and musicians whose combined talents went into the creation of this new form of entertainment, "Fantasia". What you're going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists. In other words, these are not going to be the interpretations of trained ...
See more »
Crazy Credits
Originally, the production credits were on a booklet distributed at the roadshow showings. They were finally put on screen for the 50th anniversary re-release. See more »Connections
Featured in Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Great Moments in Disney Animation (1987) See more »Soundtracks
"Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6"(1825)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Special Lyrics by Rachel Field
Orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski (uncredited)
Sung in English by Julietta Novis and chorus
Choir Sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir (as Westminster Choir) of Westminster Choir College (uncredited) Charles Henderson,
Choral Director
Played by The Philadelphia Orchestra (as The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
See more »
This without a doubt the greatest animated film in history. While highly acclaimed and well-known today, it was not terribly popular when it was first released. The idea of "Fantasia" is to take great pieces of music and draw animated sequences that match them. In doing so, it reverses the purpose of a movie's score; the movie serves and matches the music, not the other way around. This set up also means that there is no typical formula plot that is present in the vast majority of movies. In the first piece, the animation is vague and abstract, but in later ones it is of definite actions, objects, and stories. The two most famous(and my favorite) parts are probably "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Rite of Spring". "Fantasia" is not only the best animated film ever made, but one of the greatest films period.