Fantasia - [DVD] [1940]

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Initially he planned to have the film on continual release with new segments replacing older ones so audiences would never see the same film twice. was "dull and uninspired", the yo-yoing flamingos "wasteful", and the New York City-based story of Rhapsody in Blue interesting but out of place in this particular movie. The studio filmed professional dancers Joyce Coles and Marjorie Belcher wearing ballet skirts that resembled shapes of blossoms that were to sit above water for Dance of the Flutes. Animator Art Babbitt, who drew the mushrooms in the "Nutcracker Suite" segment, was asked if he worked under the influence of drugs, and he quipped, "Yes, it's true.

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He found The Sorcerer's Apprentice fit well with the rest of the film and the battle in Symphony No. The release is also noted for the controversial removal of four scenes from The Pastoral Symphony over racial stereotyping. Disney had been interested in producing abstract animation since he saw A Color Box by Len Lye from 1935. The soundtrack was ultimately released as a three-record LP set in sixteen countries by Disneyland Records in 1957 under the catalog number WDX-101.This is followed immediately by the brief Meet the Soundtrack sequence, which gives audiences a stylized example of how sound is rendered as waveforms to record the music for Fantasia. Musicians take their seats and tune up as animators and artists draw at their desks before James Levine approaches the conductor's podium and signals the beginning of the piece. Conductor Leopold Stokowski appears and begins conducting the first strains of his own orchestration of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach (originally written for solo organ).

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Ernst as producer [16] and Hendel Butoy as supervisory director, having liked his work on The Rescuers Down Under (1990). It is based on an original story by Hans Christian Andersen entitled The Little Girl with the Matches or The Little Match Girl, published in 1845. In the original roadshow version, after Mickey leaves, Deems Taylor and the musicians applaud Mickey and Stokowski. Note: All segments performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Levine, except where noted. Disney allowed RKO to handle the general release of Fantasia but fought their decision to have the film cut.

Preliminary designs included those from effects animator Cy Young, who produced drawings influenced by the patterns on the edge of a piece of sound film. On the other hand, Taylor welcomed the change, describing it as "a stunning one", and saw "no possible objection to it.

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This copy was used when Fantasia was reissued in stereo by Buena Vista Distribution in SuperScope, a derivative of the anamorphic widescreen CinemaScope format, on February 7, 1956. Fantasia 2000" on Disney DVD and VHS; "Fantasia" 60th Anniversary Edition on DVD; Disney's Animated Masterpieces Available Nov.After numerous unsuccessful attempts to develop a Fantasia sequel, The Walt Disney Company revived the idea shortly after Michael Eisner became chief executive officer in 1984. He gave in as the studio needed as much income as possible to remedy its finances, but refused to cut it himself: "You can get anybody you want to edit it. Source Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film, produced by Walt Disney Productions and given a wide release by RKO Radio Pictures. From the beginning of its development, Disney expressed the greater importance of music in Fantasia compared to his past work: "In our ordinary stuff, our music is always under action, but on this. Hahn came up with the set and backgrounds while eating lunch; he proceeded to sketch a rough idea of what he imagined on a napkin.