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Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Disney and Stokowski eventually decided that the notion of marrying classical music with animation was too good to confine to a mere short subject; thus the notion was expanded into a two-hour feature, incorporating seven musical selections and a bridging narration by music critic Deems Taylor. The first piece, Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", was used to underscore a series of abstract images. The next selection, Tschiakovsky's "Nutcracker Suite", is performed by dancing wood-sprites, mushrooms, flowers, goldfish, thistles, milkweeds and frost fairies. The Mickey Mouse version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is next, followed by Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", which serves as leitmotif for the story of the creation of the world, replete with dinosaurs and volcanoes. After a brief jam session involving the live-action musicians comes Beethoven's "Pastorale Symphony", enacted against a Greek-mythology tapestry by centaurs, unicorns, cupids and a besotted Bacchus. Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" is performed by a Corps de Ballet consisting of hippos, ostriches and alligators. The program comes to a conclusion with a fearsome visualization of Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", dominated by the black god Tchernobog (referred to in the pencil tests as "Yensid", which is guess-what spelled backwards); this study of the "sacred and profane" segues into a reverent rendition of Schubert's "Ave Maria". Originally, Debussy's "Clair de Lune" was part of the film, but was cut from the final release print; also cut, due to budgetary considerations, was Disney's intention of issuing an annual "update" of Fantasia with new musical highlights and animated sequences.

Cast

Walt Disney   - Mickey Mouse [Voice] 
Bela Lugosi   - Model for Tchernabog 
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra   - Orchestra 
Leopold Stokowski   - Himself [Participant] 
Deems Taylor   - Himself 

Credits

James Algar  - Director
Samuel Armstrong  - Director
Ford I. Beebe  - Director
Walt Disney  - Producer / Director
Jim Handley  - Director
Albert Heath  - Director / Screenwriter
T. Hee  - Director
Graham Heid  - Director / Screenwriter
Wilfred Jackson  - Director
Hamilton Luske  - Director
Bianca Majolie  - Director / Screenwriter
Sylvia Moberly-Holland  - Director / Screenwriter
Bill Roberts  - Director
Paul Satterfield  - Director
Ben Sharpsteen  - Director
Norman Wright  - Director / Screenwriter
Lee Blair  - Screenwriter
Phil Dike  - Screenwriter
Otto Englander  - Screenwriter
Carl Faliberg  - Screenwriter
Norman Ferguson  - Animator / Screenwriter
Campbell Grant  - Screenwriter
Joe Grant  - Screenwriter
Arthur Heinemann  - Screenwriter
William Martin  - Screenwriter
John Fraser McLeish  - Screenwriter
Perce Pearce  - Screenwriter
Bill Peet  - Screenwriter
Erdman Penner  - Screenwriter
Elmer Plummer  - Screenwriter / Consultant/advisor
Joseph Sabo  - Screenwriter
Webb Smith  - Screenwriter
George Stallings  - Screen Story
Robert Sterner  - Screenwriter
Leo Thiele  - Screenwriter
Johann Sebastian Bach  - Featured Music
Ludwig van Beethoven  - Featured Music
Paul Dukas  - Featured Music
Edward Plumb  - Musical Direction/Supervision
Franz Schubert  - Featured Music
Leopold Stokowski  - Musical Direction/Supervision
Igor Stravinsky  - Featured Music
Pyotr Tchaikovsky  - Featured Music
Ken Anderson  - Art Director
Bruce Bushman  - Art Director
Arthur Byram  - Art Director
Tom Codrick  - Art Director
Robert Cormack  - Art Director
Harold Doughty  - Art Director
Yale Gracey  - Art Director
Hugh Hennessy  - Art Director
John Hubley  - Art Director
Dick Kelsey  - Art Director
J. Gordon Legg  - Art Director
Kay Nielsen  - Art Director
Lance Nolley  - Art Director
Ernest Nordli  - Art Director
Kendall O'Connor  - Art Director
Curtiss D. Perkins  - Art Director
Charles Philippi  - Art Director
Thor Putnam  - Art Director
Charles Rayzant  - Art Director
Herbert Ryman  - Art Director
Zack Schwartz  - Art Director
Terrell Stapp  - Art Director
McLaren Stewart  - Art Director
Al Zinnen  - Art Director
Gail Papineau  - Special Effects
Leonard Pickley  - Special Effects
James Bodrero  - Consultant/advisor
Earl Hurd  - Consultant/advisor
Ethel Kulsar  - Consultant/advisor
John P. Miller  - Consultant/advisor
Martin Provensen  - Consultant/advisor
Duke Russell  - Consultant/advisor
Lorna S. Soderstrom  - Consultant/advisor
John Walbridge  - Consultant/advisor
Edwin Aardal  - Animator
Arthur Babbitt  - Animator
Preston Blair  - Animator
John Bradbury  - Animator
Paul Busch  - Animator
Jack Campbell  - Animator
Robert W. Carlson, Jr.  - Animator
Les Clark  - Animator
Ugo D'Orsi  - Animator
Philip Duncan  - Animator
Art Elliott  - Animator
John Elliotte  - Animator
Hugh Fraser  - Animator
Franklin Grundeen  - Animator
Harry Hamsel  - Animator
Bill Justice  - Animator
Lynn Karp  - Animator
Walt Kelly  - Animator
Ward Kimball  - Animator
Paul B. Kossoff  - Animator
Eric Larson  - Animator
Hicks Lokey  - Animator
John Lounsbery  - Animator
Ed Love  - Animator
Don Lusk  - Animator
Daniel MacManus  - Animator
Murray McLennan  - Animator
John McManus  - Animator
Joshua Meador  - Animator
Fred Moore  - Animator
James Moore  - Animator
Milt Neil  - Animator
Lester Novros  - Animator
Art Palmer  - Animator
Don Patterson  - Animator
Ray Patterson  - Animator
John F. Reed  - Animator
Wolfgang Reitherman  - Animator
George Rowley  - Animator
William N. Shull  - Animator
Grant Simmons  - Animator
Art Stevens  - Animator
Robert Stokes  - Animator
Howard Swift  - Animator
Norman Tate  - Animator
Riley Thompson  - Animator
Don Tobin  - Animator
Harvey Toombs  - Animator
Don Towsley  - Animator
Vladimir Tytla  - Animator
Berny Wolf  - Animator
Cornett Wood  - Animator
Marvin Woodward  - Animator
Cy Young  - Animator
Robert W. Youngquist  - Animator
Jules Engel  - Choreography
Ollie Johnston  - Supervising Animator
Brice Mack  - Background Artist

Among other things, Walt Disney was a man who was good at letting things spiral out of control -- usually to the enjoyment of the public for generations to come. In this case, it was a "Silly Symphony" featuring Mickey Mouse as the title character in Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice which eventually blossomed into Fantasia -- Disney's longest animated feature, which went from being a box-office bomb when it was released in 1940 to a widely recognized masterpiece decades later. It's not hard to see why; despite stunning, powerful animation that is unparalleled to this day, audiences in 1940 didn't know what to make of a feature cartoon with prancing centaurs, pirouetting nymphs, tutu'd hippos, and no story or narration. It wasn't until the psychedelic '60s that Fantasia began ascend to its current status, and the rise of increasingly thorough animation historical studies didn't hurt either.

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