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Fantasia (1940)

Director(s) James Algar (uncredited), Samuel Armstrong (uncredited), Ford Beebe Jr. (uncredited), Norman Ferguson (uncredited), Jim Handley (uncredited), T. Hee (uncredited), Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen
Producer(s)

Walt Disney

Ben Sharpsteen

Top Genres Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Top Topics Disney

Fantasia Featured Cast See Full Cast »

Walt Disney
Walt Disney(as Mickey Mouse in 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice')

Fantasia

Released
1940

Walt Disney
(as Mickey Mouse in 'The S...)

James MacDonald
James MacDonald(as Percussionist)

Fantasia

Released
1940

James MacDonald
(as Percussionist)

Fantasia Overview:

Fantasia (1940) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts and Ford Beebe Jr. and produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen.

SYNOPSIS

The movie many consider Disney's greatest animation achievement is a series of eight animated fantasies set to classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Swirling, surrealistic, colorful, it's long been considered a classic.

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Fantasia was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1990.

Academy Awards 1941 --- Ceremony Number 14 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Special AwardTo Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production, Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form.Won
Special AwardTo Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.Won
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Fantasia BlogHub Articles:

Fantasia 2000 (1999)

on Jul 20, 2013 From Journeys in Classic Film

I reviewed the first installment of Fantasia last September (shocking that this feature closes by the end of this year) and felt that the 1940s experiment in music and animation was a “pretty screensaver;” so I wasn’t too excited to watch the failed continuation of the series, Fant... Read full article

A special Fantasia birthday at Radio City Music Hall. (1)

By Brandie on May 21, 2012 From True Classics

by Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci My very first moviegoing experience turned out to be simply a warm-up, a dry run: I was about five years old, and I went to the Interboro Theater in the Bronx, where our family lived at the time, to see The Sound of Music (1965). It would have been great, except that I wa... Read full article

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Fantasia Quotes:

No Quote for this film.
Fantasia Facts
The only Walt Disney animated feature film that reaches the two hour mark.
In the "Pastoral Symphony" segment there was originally a scene showing stereotyped Black assistant centaurs shining the hooves of white centaurs. The chief of these was Sunflower, who had a very stereotypical look: big, red lips and wild messy hair. It was not until the 1969 re-release that this was thought to be objectionable, and all subsequent releases until 1980 had an abrupt cut at this point. Every subsequent release after 1990 includes the scene, but with the section blown up so that it only shows the faces of the white female centaurs.
The name of the dancing hippo in the "Dance of the Hours" segment is Hyacinth, the Ostrich is Mlle. Upanova, and the alligator is Ben Ali Gator.
Walt Disney originally wanted to re-release the film each year with new music segments, but this proved over-ambitious. Among the pieces that were at least storyboarded for insertion were Jean Sibelius's "Swan of Tuonela," Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee," and Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Waltz" (a new concept that would have starred Peter Pegasus from the "Pastoral" segment). Some of these ideas, however, were incorporated into Fantasia/2000.
The movie was named as one of the 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time by Premiere Magazine.
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