Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 120
Rating: 8.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: James AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord BeebeNorman FergusonJim HandleyT. HeeWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeBill RobertsPaul SatterfieldBen Sharpsteen
Sound: 4-Track Stereo, 70 mm 6-Track, Dolby, Fantasound, Mono, Mono
Taglines:

Superb! Enthralling! Amazing! Walt Disneys Incomparable FANTASIA

Walt Disneys Technicolor FEATURE triumph

Hear the pictures! See the music!

All the BEAUTY...All the DELIGHT...All the EXCITEMENT of the worlds greatest music!

Fantasia Will Amazia! (1942 re-release)

Writing by: Lee Blair - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development) &
Elmer Plummer - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development) &
Phil Dike - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development)
Sylvia Moberly-Holland - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Norman Wright - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Albert Heath - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Bianca Majolie - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Graham Heid - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development)
Perce Pearce - (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (story development) &
Carl Fallberg - (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (story development)
William Martin - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
Leo Thiele - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
Robert Sterner - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
John McLeish - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) (as John Fraser McLeish)
Otto Englander - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Webb Smith - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Erdman Penner - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Joseph Sabo - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Bill Peet - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Vernon Stallings - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) (as George Stallings)
Campbell Grant - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development) &
Arthur Heinemann - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development) &
Phil Dike - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development)

Produced by: Walt Disney - producer
Ben Sharpsteen - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Leopold Stokowski - Himself (Conductor, The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Deems Taylor - Narrator (1940 original)
Julietta Novis - Soloist (segment "Ave Maria") (voice)
Corey Burton - Narrator: Deems Taylor overdubs (2000 restoration) (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald - Percussionist (uncredited)
Paul J. Smith - Violinist (uncredited)

Music: Antonio Pinto
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Plot Outline: A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.
Plot: Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerers 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The roadshow cut shows the title card at the intermission rather than the beginning, as on most prints.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the "Sorcerers Apprentice" sequence, as Mickey Mouse waves his hands in front of him to make the broom come to life, his sleeves spill over his hands. It then cuts to his shadow on the wall, where his hands are fully exposed.

Trivia: There are 43 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Igor Stravinsky, the composer of the "Rite of Spring" (who, until 1971, was the only one of the composers still living whose music was featured in the film) hated Leopold Stokowskis re-orchestration and re-organization of the piece (the original order of the sections was jumbled, and two of them were completely left out of the Disney version).
• Disney digitally re-recorded the soundtrack for the 1982 re-release because the original Leopold Stokowski soundtrack from 1940 sounded dated and very limited in fidelity. But for the 1990 50th Anniversary release, Disney reverted to the original soundtrack from 1940, which they cleaned up as best as possible (although the limited fidelity could not be corrected) and this is the soundtrack the film has today.
• The 2000 restoration was the first time the longer, so-called roadshow version of the film was seen after the initial release. This version contains much longer interstitials from Deems Taylor explaining what will be seen. The picture of these segments was easy to find and was cleaned up, since most of them were used in the 1990 restoration, but the soundtrack for the segments that had not been seen since the 1940s either could not be found or was in terrible shape. After much debate, actor Corey Burton was called in to dub all of Taylors speeches, including the "Sound Track" sequence halfway through the picture.

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