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Fantasia
Directed by See "Program description" below
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by See "Program description" below
Starring Leopold Stokowski
Deems Taylor
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Walt Disney (voice)
Distributed by Walt Disney Productions
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s) November 13, 1940 (roadshow)
January 6, 1942 (wide)
Running time 124 minutes (original 1940 version, 2000 restoration)
81 min. Fantasia is a 1940 Animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Fantasia is a 1940 Animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Leopold Stokowski (born Leopold Anthony Stokowski though on occasion Deems Taylor (born Joseph Taylor) ( 22 December 1885 - July 3, 1966) was a U The Philadelphia Orchestra is an Orchestra based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, in the United States. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. (1942 edit)
115 min. (all versions, 1946 – 1990)
Language English
Budget $2,280,000 (est. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States )
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Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Disney animated features canon. The year 1940 in film involved some significant events Events February 7 - Walt Disney 's animated Film The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Fantasia is an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the backdrop of animation and does not feature any dialogue. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a reciprocal Conversation between two or more entities. The music is recorded under the direction of Leopold Stokowski; seven of the eight pieces were performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Leopold Stokowski (born Leopold Anthony Stokowski though on occasion The Philadelphia Orchestra is an Orchestra based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, in the United States. Animated artwork of varying degrees of abstraction or literalism is used to illustrate or accompany the concert in various ways. The film also includes live-action segments featuring Stokowski, the orchestra, and American composer and music critic Deems Taylor, who serves as the host for the film. Deems Taylor (born Joseph Taylor) ( 22 December 1885 - July 3, 1966) was a U Besides its avant-garde qualities, Fantasia was notable for being the first major film released in stereophonic sound, using a process dubbed "Fantasound". Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of Sound, using two or more independent audio channels through a Symmetrical Fantasound was an early Stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E

Fantasia was originally released by Walt Disney Productions itself without then-distributor RKO Radio Pictures, and exhibited as a two-hour roadshow film with booked engagements. The film opened to mixed critical reaction and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Walt Disney in financial straits. [1][2] Fantasia was eventually picked up by RKO for release in 1941 and edited drastically to a running time of 81 minutes in 1942. Five subsequent rereleases of Fantasia between 1946 and 1977 restored various amounts of the deleted footage, with the most common version being the 1946 rerelease edit, which ran nine minutes shorter than the original 124 minute roadshow version. A 1982 reissue featured a newly recorded digital soundtrack conducted by composer Irwin Kostal, but was taken out of circulation in 1990 after a restored version of the original Stokowski-conducted soundtrack was prepared. Irwin Kostal ( October 1, 1911 - November 23, 1994) was an Academy Award -winning American Musical arranger of The original version of Fantasia was never released again after 1941, and although some of the original audio elements no longer exist, a 2000 DVD release version attempted to restore as much of the original version of the film as possible. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Fantasia, despite its initial commercial failure, is today considered a classic film.

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Production history

After the successful release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney decided to produce more features. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The film was produced on a budget of $2,280,000, to which $400,000 went to the musical recording techniques, not exceptionally high, but high at the time. [3]

However, by the late 1930s, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse was losing his popularity with movie audiences. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. The Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts series had spawned the spin-off Donald Duck series, which was proving to be more popular and profitable than the Mickey Mouse series. Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. However, Walt Disney wasn't ready to give up on his favorite character, and devised a special short that would be produced as a "comeback" film for Mickey Mouse. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, based on Goethe's story of the same name, was planned as a special Mickey Mouse short, and would be completely silent save for the classical music piece by Paul Dukas. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of Goethe 's poem Der Zauberlehrling (1797 ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1 1865 &ndash May 17 1935 was a Parisian born French Composer and teacher of classical music. The story artists who developed The Sorcerer's Apprentice originally suggested Dopey from Snow White for the title role, but Disney insisted upon using Mickey. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

As work began on The Sorcerer's Apprentice in 1938, Disney happened to meet famed conductor Leopold Stokowski at a Hollywood restaurant. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Leopold Stokowski (born Leopold Anthony Stokowski though on occasion [4] Stokowski offered to serve as conductor for The Sorcerer's Apprentice at no charge, and assembled over one-hundred professional musicians in Los Angeles to record the score for the nine-minute cartoon. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West [5][6]

The animation department worked to make The Sorcerer's Apprentice one of their most ambitious works. Animator Fred Moore redesigned Mickey to give his figure more weight and volume in keeping with the modern efforts at the studio, and to give him eyes with pupils for greater expression. Robert Fred Moore ( September 7, 1911 - November 23, 1952) was an American artist and Character animator for The film's color styling, pacing and layout, character animation, and effects animation were done with an increased attention to detail. The unnamed sorcerer in The Sorcerer's Apprentice was nicknamed "Yen Sid": "Disney" spelled backwards. Yen Sid is the nickname of the fictional sorcerer in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, one of the segments from Disney's Fantasia. [7]

All of this excess came at a high price: $125,000, a price Walt Disney, and especially his brother and business partner Roy, knew they could never make back from the release of one short film. [4] In comparison, most Disney shorts at the time averaged a cost of $40,000, which was $10,000 above the average budget for an animated cartoon made outside the Disney Studio. Disney's most successful short cartoon, The Three Little Pigs (1933), had made $60,000 in revenue. Three Little Pigs is an animated Short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney Following a suggestion by Stokowski, Walt Disney decided to expand The Sorcerer's Apprentice into a Feature Symphony with several animated sequences set to music, of which The Sorcerer's Apprentice would be one. Silly Symphonies is a series of Animated Short subjects 75 in total produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939 To provide continuity and explanation, the composer and music critic Deems Taylor was recruited to provide live-action narrative introductions at the beginning of each segment. Deems Taylor (born Joseph Taylor) ( 22 December 1885 - July 3, 1966) was a U Stokowski suggested the title Fantasia (which literally means "A medley of familiar themes, with variations and interludes. "[8]), which became the film's final title (a working title for the film was The Concert Feature).

With The Sorcerer's Apprentice nearing completion, the rest of Fantasia entered production in early 1939, and the same attention to detail that was given to The Sorcerer's Apprentice was given to the other segments as well.

Program description

Most of the works played in the film are program music; that is, instrumental music that depicts stories in sound. Programme music is a form of Art music intended to evoke extra-musical ideas images in the mind of the listener by musically representing a scene image or mood However, the Disney program is generally not the same as the original. This criticism was addressed in the film itself. The host and narrator of the film, Deems Taylor, introduces each piece in the program and gives background on the original intent of the composer. There is no intent to deceive anyone into thinking that the Disney visual accompaniment was the "original intent" of the composer.

Some of the selections were shortened from their full length, for the sake of the film's running time. Of the eight pieces, four are presented virtually complete: Toccata and Fugue, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the Dance of the Hours (which is actually extended from its usual arrangement by repeating a portion of the "morning" segment, with lower instruments, for the "afternoon" segment), and the Ave Maria. The Nutcracker Suite is shorn of its Miniature Overture and March, the Rite of Spring (the longest segment in the film) is ten minutes shorter than the original thirty-five minute work, and the Pastoral Symphony segment is performed in a twenty-minute version rather than Beethoven's complete forty-minute one. There are also small internal omissions in Night on Bald Mountain.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Fantasia begins immediately (there are no opening credits or logos of any sort) with the stage doors being opened to reveal an orchestra stand. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" Oskar Fischinger ( 22 June 1900, Gelnhausen, Germany — 31 January 1967, Los Angeles) was an abstract animator Cy (also known as Sy) Young (died 1964 was a Chinese American Special effects animator, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Joshua Meador (1911 - 1965 was an Animator, special effects artist and animation director for the Disney studio. Musicians are seen ascending the stand, taking their places and tuning their instruments. Master of ceremonies Deems Taylor arrives and delivers an introduction to the film, Leopold Stokowski, and the first musical selection, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Deems Taylor (born Joseph Taylor) ( 22 December 1885 - July 3, 1966) was a U WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Leopold Stokowski (born Leopold Anthony Stokowski though on occasion Stokowski appears and begins conducting the first strains of the Toccata and Fugue.

The first third of the Toccata and Fugue is in live-action, and features an orchestra playing the piece, illuminated by abstract light patterns set in time to the music and backed by stylized (and superimposed) shadows. Superimposed is an Indie Metal band based in Manchester, England. The number segues into an abstract animation piece — a first for the Disney studio – set in time to the music. Abstract art uses a Visual language of form color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world Toccata and Fugue was inspired primarily by the work of German abstract animator Oscar Fischinger, who worked for a brief time on this segment. Oskar Fischinger ( 22 June 1900, Gelnhausen, Germany — 31 January 1967, Los Angeles) was an abstract animator The animation segues back into the live-action footage of Stokowski as the piece concludes, setting the precedent for the rest of the musical numbers.

Although the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the music for the film (excepting The Sorcerer's Apprentice), they do not appear onscreen; the orchestra used onscreen in the film is made up of local Los Angeles musicians and Disney studio employees like James Macdonald and Paul J. Smith, who mime to the prerecorded tracks by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company: Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner was established James MacDonald may refer toPolitics James Ramsay MacDonald known as Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister James MacDonald (trade unionist Paul J Smith ( October 30, 1906 Calumet Michigan - January 25, 1985) was an American music composer Originally, the Philadelphia Orchestra was slated to be filmed in the introduction and interstitial segments, but union and budgetary considerations prevented this from coming to pass.

Nutcracker Suite

The Nutcracker Suite is a personified depiction of the changing of the seasons; first from summer to autumn, and then from autumn to winter. Arthur Harold Babitsky, better known as Art Babbitt ( October 8, 1907 &ndash March 4, 1992) was an American Animator Les Clark ( November 17, 1907 - September 12, 1979) was the first of Disney's Nine Old Men. Jules Engel ( 11 March 1909 &ndash 6 September 2003) was a Jewish - Hungarian American filmmaker painter sculptor graphic The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик Shchelkunchik) Op 71 is a Fairy tale - Ballet in two acts three scenes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky A season is one of the major divisions of the Year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in Weather. Summer is one of the four Temperate Seasons Summer marks the warmest time of year with the longest days Autumn (also known as fall in North American English) is one of the four Temperate Seasons Autumn marks the transition from Summer Autumn (also known as fall in North American English) is one of the four Temperate Seasons Autumn marks the transition from Summer Winter is one of the four Seasons of Temperate zones Calculated astronomically, it begins on the Solstice and ends on the Equinox It features a variety of dances, just as in the original, but danced by animated fairies, fishes, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves; no actual nutcracker is ever seen in this version. A fairy (also fay, fey, fae, faerie; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also A mushroom is the fleshy Spore -bearing Fruiting body of a Fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis. A nutcracker is a Mechanical device for cracking nuts. It works on the Principle of moments as described in Archimedes ' analysis Many elements are rendered carefully and painstakingly using techniques such as drybrush and airbrush. Drybrush is a Painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry but still holds a Paint load is applied to a dry support such as An airbrush is a small air-operated tool that sprays various media including Ink and Dye, but most often Paint by a process of Nebulization

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice tells the story of an apprentice who cannot control the magic that he has tried to use, with Mickey Mouse in the role of the apprentice. Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1 1865 &ndash May 17 1935 was a Parisian born French Composer and teacher of classical music. Dick Huemer ( January 2 1898 New York New York &mdash November 30 1979 Burbank California) was an Animator Joe Grant ( May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was a Disney artist and writer Robert Fred Moore ( September 7, 1911 - November 23, 1952) was an American artist and Character animator for Vladimir Peter Tytla ( October 25 1904 &ndash December 30 1968) was one of the original Disney Animators and is considered Les Clark ( November 17, 1907 - September 12, 1979) was the first of Disney's Nine Old Men. Preston Blair (1918&ndash1994 was an American Character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer George Rowley, Dean of University College Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Apprenticeship is a system of Training a new generation of practitioners of a skill Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Afterwards, Mickey and Leopold, seen in silhouette, congratulate each other.

The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring is a condensed version of the natural history of the Earth from the formation of the planet, to the first living creatures, to the age, reign, and extinction of the dinosaurs. In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. The sequence showcased realistically animated prehistoric beasts, and utilized extensive and complicated special effects to depict volcanoes, boiling lava, and earthquakes. Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the Lava is molten rock expelled by a Volcano during an eruption When first expelled from a volcanic vent it is a Liquid at Temperatures An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer There are some inaccuracies; a Dimetrodon is shown amongst the dinosaurs, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus were extinct well before the end of the age of the dinosaurs, and were likely gone by the time T. Dimetrodon (daɪˈmɛtɹəʊˌdɒn meaning "two measures of teeth" was a Predatory Synapsid (' Mammal-like reptile ' Genus Stegosaurus (ˌstɛgəˈsɔrəs is a Genus of stegosaurid armoured Dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period ( Rex appeared. The large carnivorous dinosaur attacking the Stegosaurus is a Tyrannosaurus according to the preliminary introduction to the segment by Deems Taylor, and concept sketches by the artists. Tyrannosaurus ( or, meaning 'tyrant lizard' is a Genus of Theropod Dinosaur. The Tyrannosaurus is incorrectly depicted with three fingers on each hand; despite the fact that by then paleontologists had come to believe that the dinosaur had two fingers, Walt Disney decided for the Tyrannosaurus to have three fingers, saying "it looks better that way. "

Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack

Deems Taylor announces a fifteen-minute intermission following the conclusion of The Rite of Spring. Joshua Meador (1911 - 1965 was an Animator, special effects artist and animation director for the Disney studio. The musicians are seen departing the orchestra stand, and the doors close to reveal a title card. In a proper roadshow of Fantasia, the theater's curtains would close simultaneously with the closing doors on the screen, and the title card would remain projected for fifteen minutes while the guests are briefly excused. Following the intermission, the film would be started again. Onscreen, the stage doors are opened again, and Taylor and the orchestra musicians are seen returning to their respective places.

After the intermission there is a brief Meet the Soundtrack sequence which gives audiences a stylized example of how sound is rendered as waveforms to record the music for Fantasia. Sound' is Vibration transmitted through a Solid, Liquid, or Gas; particularly sound means those vibrations composed of Frequencies waveformogg|right|a sine square and sawtooth wave at 440 hz]] Waveform means the shape and form of a signal such as a Wave moving in a solid liquid or gaseous The sequence features animation by effects animator Joshua Meador and his team, who give the soundtrack (initially a squiggly line which changes into various shapes based upon the individual sounds played on the soundtrack) a distinct personality. Joshua Meador (1911 - 1965 was an Animator, special effects artist and animation director for the Disney studio.

The Pastoral Symphony

The Pastoral Symphony utilized delicate color styling to depict a mythical ancient Grecian world of centaurs, centaurettes (a Disney studio creation), a pegasus and his family, the gods of Mount Olympus, fauns, cherubs and other creatures and characters of classical mythology. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca In Greek mythology, the centaurs (from Ancient Greek: Κένταυροι - Kéntauroi are a race of creatures composed of part Human In Greek mythology, Pegasus ( Greek: Πήγασος, Pégasos, 'strong' was a winged horse that was the son of Poseidon, in his role See also List of deities A deity is a Postulated Preternatural or Supernatural Being, who is always Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος also transliterated as Ólympos, and on Greek maps Óros Ólimbos) is the highest Mountain in Greece In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits ( genii) of untamed woodland CHERUB is a series of young adult books written by the author Robert Muchamore. It tells the story of the mythological creatures gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine riding his horned donkey, Jacchus, which is interrupted by Zeus, who decides to have a little fun by throwing lightning bolts at the attendees. A festival is an event usually and ordinarily staged by a local community which centers on some unique aspect of that community In Classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos (in Greek, Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος; associated with Roman Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice Zeus (zjuːs in Greek: nominative: Zeús /zdeús/ genitive: Diós; Modern Greek /'zefs/ in Greek mythology

This portion of the film was criticized for brief yet blatant nudity on the part of the centaurettes. Other criticisms center on the racial images of a centaurette servant named Sunflower, who is part African human, part donkey, and two attendants to Bacchus who are part African Amazons, part zebra. Zebras are African Equids best known for their distinctive white and black stripes The servant has been excised from all prints in circulation since 1969, while the zebra centaurettes have always remained in the film.

Dance of the Hours

Dance of the Hours featured comic ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators all attempting to perform the actual ballet. The Ostrich ( Struthio camelus) is a large Flightless bird native to Africa (and formerly the Middle East) The hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius) from the Greek ἱπποπόταμος ( hippopotamos, ιππος hippos meaning "horse" Elephants ( family: Elephantidae) are large land Mammals of the order Proboscidea. for differences between alligators and crocodiles please see Crocodilia An Alligator is a Crocodilian in the Genus Ballet is a formalized form of Dance with its origins in the French court further developed in France and Russia as a Concert dance The segment is animated with an energy and franticness rarely seen in Disney films. The animals are introduced to match the hours in an order corresponding to the times of day. Dawn welcomes the ostriches. At midday, the hippos take over. In the early evening, the elephants come to the fore. After night has fallen, the alligators come and the finale sees the chaotic chase that ensues between all of the characters seen in the segment.

Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria

Chernabog summons the spirits of the dead in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Fantasia.
Chernabog summons the spirits of the dead in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Fantasia. A Night on the Bald Mountain usually refers to one of two compositions—either a seldom performed early (1867 ' musical picture ' by Modest Mussorgsky,

The Night on Bald Mountain segment is a showcase for animator Bill Tytla, who gave the demon Chernabog a power and intensity rarely seen in Disney films. Vladimir Peter Tytla ( October 25 1904 &ndash December 30 1968) was one of the original Disney Animators and is considered Chernabog is a Fictional character who appears in the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Walt Disney 's Fantasia (1940 The nocturnal Chernabog summons from their graves empowered restless souls, until driven away by the sound of a church bell. A church bell is a bell which is rung in a (especially Christian) church either to signify the Hour or the time for worshippers to go to Noted actor Bela Lugosi served as a live action model for Chernabog, and spent several days at the Disney studio, where he was filmed doing evil, demon-like poses for Tytla and his unit to use as a reference. Béla Lugosi (October 20 1882 &ndash August 16 1956 was an iconic Hungarian stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Tytla later deemed this reference material unsuitable and had studio colleague Wilfred Jackson perform in front of the cameras for the reference footage. Wilfred Jackson ( January 24 1906 &ndash August 7 1988) was an American Animator, Arranger, Composer

Chernabog is first seen when he awakes on top of Bald Mountain. It is Walpurgis Night and, using the powers of darkness, he raises ghosts, skeletons, demons, witches, dragons, goblins, and zombies from a nearby town and cemetery. Walpurgis Night is a traditional religious holiday (celebrated by Pagans Roman Catholics and Satanists ref> About the Church of Satan alike celebrated A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented In Biology, the skeleton is a strong and often a rigid framework that supports the body of an animal holding it upright and giving it shape and strength (Also skeletal Witchcraft, in various historical anthropological religious and mythological contexts is the use of certain kinds of Supernatural or magical powers The dragon is a Legendary creature of which some interpretation or depiction appears in almost every culture worldwide A goblin is an evil crabby or Mischievous Creature of Folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or Gnome -like phantom zombie is a reanimated human corpse Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. He then summons fire and lava and makes the damned and the other creatures in his control dance and fly around, much to his delight, before he destroys them. Fire is the heat and light energy released during a Chemical reaction, in particular a combustion reaction. Lava is molten rock expelled by a Volcano during an eruption When first expelled from a volcanic vent it is a Liquid at Temperatures Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic In one part he picks up a handful of demons and transforms them first into naked women, then into demonic animals. Christian demonology establishes a relationship between Demons and certain Animals that are considered diabolical Ultimately, he drops them into the lava which seals their fiery doom.

The horror of the demons, ghosts, skeletons, witches, harpies, and other evil creatures in Night on Bald Mountain comes to an abrupt end with the sound of church bells, which send Chernabog and his followers back into hiding, and the multiplane camera tracks far, far away from Bald Mountain to reveal a line of faithful townfolk with lighted torches, and the camera slowly follows them as they walk slowly and solemnly through the forest and ruins of a cathedral to the sounds of the Ave Maria. The animation of the worshipers is some of the smallest animation ever done: the camera had to be so close to some of the work that it had to be rendered at only an inch or so high. Even a slight deviation in the width of the final painted line would have been distracting to a movie audience on the big screen. In fact, as told by animator Frank Thomas in the book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life the entire sequence had to be reshot twice, once because the wrong focal length lens was used, and once because of a small earth tremor that shook the animation planes out of alignment. Franklin "Frank" Thomas ( September 5, 1912 &ndash September 8, 2004) was an American Animator. The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly it converges (focuses or diverges (diffuses Light. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer The multiplane camera then finally tracks through the trees to reveal a sunrise as the film fades to its conclusion.

Originally the plan was for the procession to enter an actual church, and there are numerous concept drawings of gothic architecture, stained-glass windows and actual statues of the Virgin Mary as can be seen on the Fantasia Anthology bonus disc. Ultimately, this ending was deemed too overly religious by Walt, and he opted for a more natural setting instead. However, the forest design in the segment still mimics that of a cathedral with an overtly gothic motif.

General credits

Fantasound

Main article: Fantasound

Not only did Fantasia establish animation as a true art form, it also introduced film audiences to multi-channel sound, which played an important part in Fantasia. James Wong Howe, ASC (Chinese 黃宗霑 Pinyin: Huáng Zōngzhān ( August 28, 1899 - July 12, 1976) is considered one of Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Hugh Douglas may refer to: Hugh the Dull Lord of Douglas (dc 1342 Scottish cleric and nobleman Hugh Douglas Earl of Ormonde (k In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a Motion picture. Corey Burton (born August 3, 1955) is an animation Voice actor, perhaps best known as the evil Brainiac in the DC animated universe Fantasound was an early Stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames After the completion of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Stokowski enlisted the Philadelphia Orchestra, of which he was the conductor, to record the music for the six remaining segments. Walt Disney was present on the sound stage during an early session, and was very pleased with what he was hearing until he heard the playback from the recording engineers. He felt the recorded version of the music sounded tinny and undynamic, and asked his engineers to see what they could do about developing a better sound system. The engineers, led by William E. Garity, responded by creating a multi-channel sound format they called Fantasound, making Fantasia the first commercial film ever to be produced in stereophonic sound. Fantasound was an early Stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of Sound, using two or more independent audio channels through a Symmetrical The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, and simultaneous multi-track recording. A click track is a series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings often to a moving image

Always wanting to try new things, Walt Disney also had plans to film Fantasia in widescreen, to have the Toccata and Fugue be filmed to be 3-D and to spray different perfumes into the theater at appropriate times during the Nutcracker Suite, but those plans were never carried out. A widescreen image is a film computer or television image with a wider and shorter aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the Classical The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик Shchelkunchik) Op 71 is a Fairy tale - Ballet in two acts three scenes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [4]

Film presentation

Poster for the original release of Fantasia.
Poster for the original release of Fantasia.

Walt Disney intended Fantasia to be more than just a film. It was to be an event, complete with reserved seating and fancy dress. Special program books were prepared for the film, featuring production artwork and photographs, dedications by both Walt and Stokowski, and the credits and synopsis for each segment. Each theater was rigged with 30 or more speakers, all lined around the perimeter of the ceiling, to provide the full Fantasound experience. The format of the film follows that of a concert rather than a motion picture. Besides the Deems Taylor narration passages, a proper presentation of Fantasia features a 15-minute intermission, which falls between The Rite of Spring and the Meet the Soundtrack segment.

Unusual for an American animated film, Fantasia had no opening or closing credits in its original version. The film opens with curtains parting to reveal the orchestra entering and taking their places. During the film's intermission, a solitary title card was to be played over the movie theater's closed curtain, reading:

Fantasia.

Copyright MCMXL Walt Disney Productions (Inc. ). In Technicolor. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation Approved MPPDA Certificate No. 1720. RCA Sound System. RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986

For the film's 1946 rerelease, and for all later theatrical releases, the title card seen during the intermission was transferred to the very beginning of the film (in regular main title fashion), but no other credits appeared. This was the way the film was shown until 1990, when closing credits, listing the entire technical staff and those involved with the 1990 restoration, were added to the end of the film. These credits were shown against a background of the orchestra exiting, using footage taken from the "intermission" segment, which had not been seen since its original 1940 release.


Release history

Fantasia was originally released in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions itself as a roadshow release, since Disney's distributor RKO Radio Pictures backed out of the film. Its first playdate, the film's premiere, was in New York City on November 13, 1940. The City of New York Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The final scene to be shot (the long multiplane pan in the Ave Maria sequence) was completed, developed, printed, and rushed via airplane to New York that same day, where it was spliced into the film a mere four hours before showtime. Primarily because of the amount of audio equipment required and the time necessary to make the installation, the full-length Fantasound version of Fantasia was only shown at 12 theatres, and only 16 Fantasound-equipped prints were ever made. Fantasound was an early Stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E Fantasound was an early Stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E The film was popular, and also boosted the classical music industry. [9] Fantasia's extremely large budget, however, meant that the film was unable to turn a profit during its initial release. [10] The financial failure of Fantasia left Walt Disney in dire financial straits, causing him to produce a relatively low-budget feature, Dumbo, as his next project. Dumbo is a 1941 Animated feature Film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. [4]

Starting with the January 29, 1941 play date in Los Angeles, California, RKO assumed distribution of Fantasia. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West They had the film's soundtrack remixed into monophonic sound, to make it easier to distribute, and added their logos to the film's solitary title card. Monaural (often shortened to mono) sound reproduction is single-channel

In late 1941, RKO had the 125-minute Fantasia edited down to 81 minutes (done by deleting the entire Toccata and Fugue in D Minor segment and shortening the live-action Deems Taylor sequences as much as possible). This version of the film was released nationwide on January 6, 1942 — the first time Fantasia was given a wide release — with the infamous tagline "Fantasia Will Amazia!" Audiences were none too responsive to the film, and it played as a B-film in most movie houses. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double

Fantasia was edited once again in 1946, restoring Toccata and Fugue, but still keeping the Deems Taylor sequences to a minimum. This is the version most familiar to the public and the version most future releases of Fantasia would be based upon, and is therefore called the "General Release Version". It retains all of the animation from the original, but omits portions of the live-action.

Stereo sound was restored to Fantasia in 1956, when it was released in CinemaScope-compatible SuperScope. CinemaScope was a Widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967 Only one operating Fantasound setup, and one Fantasound-equipped print, existed by this time; the sound negatives were stored on nitrate film and had by this time deteriorated. Nitrocellulose (also cellulose nitrate, flash paper) is a highly flammable compound formed by Nitrating Cellulose through exposure to [11] The output from the four-track Fantasound system was transferred via high-quality telephone lines to an RCA facility and recorded onto magnetic tape. RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986 The magnetic recording was mixed to create a new final four-channel stereo mix for the widescreen release. A widescreen image is a film computer or television image with a wider and shorter aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the Classical [11] The film was projected in various aspect ratios by actually changing the anamorphic properties of the lens on the fly by using the fourth sound track as a control track, much like the original control track was used to redirect the sound in the 1940 release. See the reference to the article from the March 1956 edition of International Projectionist.

Fantasia could not profit until its 1969 rerelease. By then, Fantasia had become immensely popular among teenagers and college students, many of whom would take illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD to "better experience" the film. Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi / Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā hemp) is a [4] Disney therefore promoted the film as a "trip-film" for its 1969 rerelease, even creating a psychedelic-styled poster to match this campaign. Modern psychedelia For "psychedelics" see Psychedelic drug. The rerelease was a major success, especially with the psychedelic young adult crowd, many of whom would come lie down in the front row of the theater and experience the film from there.

The film was once again edited for the 1969 release, this time to remove Sunflower, a centaur depicted as an African-American girl in the Pastoral Symphony segment. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor According to the Memory Hole, "Performing menial duties for the blonde, white female centaurs, Sunflower is a racial stereotype along the lines of Amos and Andy, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima. Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy based on Stereotypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s Billie Thomas (originally William Thomas Jr) ( March 12, 1931 &ndash October 10, 1980) was an American child actor best Aunt Jemima is a Trademark for Pancake Flour, Syrup, and other Breakfast foods currently owned by the Quaker Oats Company "

For its 1982 reissue, as motion picture sound technology was advancing, the 1956 Fantasia sound master was deemed both unusable and unsalvageable. Disney decided to completely rerecord the film's soundtrack, and a new digitally recorded score arranged and conducted by Irwin Kostal was made. This marked the first time a motion picture's score was recorded entirely using digital technology. However, judicial edits were made, including replacing Deems Taylor's original narration with that of Hugh Douglas. This version of Fantasia would be rereleased again in 1985. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar)

For Fantasia's 50th anniversary in 1990, Disney decided to go back to the original Stowkowski recording. Using the 1956 stereo soundtrack and the 1941 mono soundtrack as his source material, Disney audio engineer Terry Porter restored the Stowkowski soundtrack using digital technology to an approximation of the original multi-channel Fantasound mix. [11] In the meantime, Peter Comandini at YCM Laboratories worked on restoring the picture from original camera negatives, edited and duplicate negatives, and, in the cases of some scenes, archival prints. [11] The film was re-edited to closely resemble the 1946 General Release Version, save for the retention of the 1969 censorship edit and the addition of an end credits sequence (played over footage from the original roadshow version's intermission). This restored version of Fantasia was released on home video in 1991. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. [4]

Finally, for its 60th Anniversary DVD release in the year 2000, Disney's manager of film restoration, Scott MacQueen, supervised a restoration and reconstruction of the original 124-minute roadshow version of Fantasia. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is The visual elements from the Deems Taylor segments that had been cut from the film in 1942 and 1946 were restored, as was the intermission. However, the original nitrate audio negatives for the long-unseen Taylor scenes had deteriorated several decades earlier, so Disney brought in voice actor Corey Burton to rerecord all of Taylor's lines. In Inorganic chemistry, a nitrate is a salt of Nitric acid with an Ion composed of one Nitrogen and three Oxygen atoms Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and Corey Burton (born August 3, 1955) is an animation Voice actor, perhaps best known as the evil Brainiac in the DC animated universe Although it was advertised as the "original uncut" version, portions from Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 were censored by digitally zooming in to avoid showing the black centaurette Sunflower. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. The Disney editor responsible, John Carnochan, was quoted as saying, "It's sort of appalling to me that these stereotypes were ever put in. "[12] With the exception of these changes, this is the most complete version of the film that currently exists. The restored roadshow version of Fantasia debuted in June 2000 at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France; accompanying its sequel, Fantasia 2000. Annecy ( Èneci / Ènneci in Arpitan language is a city in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Fantasia 2000 is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Fantasia theatrical release history

Worldwide release dates

Critical reception and legacy

The film won two Honorary Academy Awards:

In 1990, Fantasia was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The National Film Registry is the registry of Films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress

In 1997, the American Film Institute put Fantasia on its' list of the 100 Greatest American movies, ranking in at #58. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 The first of the AFI 100 Years series of cinematic milestones AFI's 100 Years It is one of only two Disney movies on the list, the other being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Critics to this day differ in their evaluation of the film. There are certainly many critics who admire the film greatly, particularly the animation work, and as an American animated feature film made with an unprecedented level of artistic ambition.

Others have taken a more negative view, sometimes labeling it as kitsch. Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior tasteless copy of an existing Famed movie critic Pauline Kael wrote, "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,' featuring Mickey Mouse, and parts of other sequences are first-rate Disney, but the total effect is grotesquely kitschy. Pauline Kael (June 19 1919 &ndash September 3 2001 was an American Film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991 " The Beethoven sequence is frequently singled out for criticism, because of the editing of the piece and the juxtaposition of the piece with the clichéd Ancient Greek setting.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is often considered the best sequence in the film, and was the only sequence from the original film carried over into Fantasia 2000. Fantasia 2000 is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. A comic adaptation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was featured in Mickey Mouse Adventures #9, published by Disney Comics at the time of the film's 50th anniversary. Mickey Mouse Adventures is a Comic book published by Disney Comics which features Mickey Mouse as the main character This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books. Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice has become such an iconic role for the character that he is regularly depicted as such in the Disney parks. Mickey is seen wearing his famous red wizard's robe and blue sorcerer's hat in numerous parades as well as in the nighttime spectacular Fantasmic! at both Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. Fantasmic! is the night-time fireworks and visual hydrotechnic show at Disneyland in California and Disney's Hollywood Studios, Florida Disney's Hollywood Studios is a Theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world containing four Theme parks two Water parks twenty-three themed hotels The sorcerer's hat is also an official symbol of Disney's Hollywood Studios and also is involved heavily in the plot of Mickey's Philharmagic at The Magic Kingdom. Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 3-D film attraction at the Magic Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort and at Hong Kong Disneyland This article is about the Theme park at Walt Disney World Resort. A very large version of the hat is also seen at the entrance of the Disney Animation building at the Disney Studios in Burbank, California (and can be easily seen from both Riverside Drive and the 134 Freeway). Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Disney's home video sales division featured "Sorcerer Mickey" on its covers starting from its inception in 1980. From 1986 to 1999 the Walt Disney Home Entertainment logo (as Walt Disney Home Video) featured Sorcerer Mickey. [13] Furthermore, Sorcerer Mickey serves as the logo for Walt Disney Imagineering, the subsidiary of the company responsible for designing the Disney parks and resorts. Walt Disney Imagineering was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED Walter Elias Disney to

Updates

Disney had wanted Fantasia to be an ongoing project, ideally with a new release each year. The plan was to repeat some of the scenes while replacing others with different music and animation, so that each version of the film would include both familiar material and new segments. However, the film's underwhelming box-office performance prevented such plans from being realized.

Clair de Lune

One segment intended for the original Fantasia was completely animated, and then left out of the first release. Clair de Lune, based on Claude Debussy's piano piece, was a casualty of Fantasia's excessive length: the sequence made it to the final pencil test stages before being deleted. The Suite bergamasque (IPA /'bɛʀgamask/ is one of the most famous Piano suites of Claude Debussy. Achille-Claude Debussy (aʃil klod dəbysi (August 22 1862 &ndash March 25 1918 was a French Composer. Ink and paint and Technicolor photography were completed in January 1942 with the intentions of releasing Clair de Lune as a short subject, which would not be done for fifty-four years. Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. Instead, the sequence was later completely recut and rescored as the Blue Bayou segment of Make Mine Music (1946). Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15 1946

A workprint of the original version of Clair de Lune was finally discovered, restored, and released by Disney as a stand-alone short subject in 1996; the accompanying Deems Taylor/Stowkowski footage was never found. A workprint is a rough version of a Motion picture, used by the Film editor (s during the editing process This version of Clair de Lune can be found on disc 3 of the Fantasia Legacy DVD box set, or on the Disney Classic Fantasia DVD (released in 2000) as a special feature.

Other proposed sequences and Fantasia 2000

Other segments such as Ride of the Valkyries, Swan of Tuonela, Flight of the Bumblebee, Invitation to the Dance, and Adventures in Perambulator were storyboarded but never fully animated, and thus were never put into production for inclusion in a future Fantasia release. Die Walküre ( The Valkyrie) is the second of the four Operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung The Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen is an 1895 Tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. "Flight of the Bumblebee" is a famous Orchestral Interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his Opera The Tale of Tsar Both World War II and overseas costs prevented Disney from revising Fantasia during his lifetime. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Other proposed segments that only made it into the conceptual stage include: The Firebird, Petrouchka, Renard, Baby Ballet, Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns), Don Quixote, Hary Janos, La Mer, The Love for Three Oranges, The Magic Flute, Mosquito, The Planets, Pop Goes the Weasel, Roman Carnival Overture, Schwanda the Bagpiper, and Till Eulenspiegel. The Firebird ( French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица Žar-ptica) is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky Petrouchka or Petrushka ( Pétrouchka; Петрушка) is a Ballet with music by the Russian Composer Renard, Histoire burlesque chantée et jouée (The Fox Burlesque tale sung and played is a one-act chamber opera-ballet by Igor Stravinsky, written in Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. es '''''Don Quixote''''' (, see spelling and pronunciation below fully titled es '''''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha''''' ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Háry János is an Opera in four acts by Zoltán Kodály to a Hungarian Libretto by Béla Paulini and Zsolt Harsányi, La mer trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea three symphonic sketches for orchestra) or simply La Mer The Love for Three Oranges ( Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам, or Lyubov k Tryom Apelsinam in Transliteration The Magic Flute (German Die Zauberflöte, K 620 is an Opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mosquitoes are insects in the family Culicidae. They have a pair of scaled wings a pair of Halteres, a slender body and long legs The Planets Op 32 is a seven- movement Orchestral suite by the British composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 "Pop Goes the Weasel" is a Jig, often sung as a Nursery rhyme, that dates back to 17th century England, and was spread across the Empire The French composer Hector Berlioz wrote a number of Overtures many of which have become popular concert items Schwanda the Bagpiper, also known as Švanda the Bagpiper (Švanda dudák is an Opera in two acts with music by Jaromír Weinberger Till Eulenspiegel (tɪl ˈʔɔʏlənˌʃpiːgəl Low Saxon: Dyl Ulenspegel dɪl ˈʔuːlnˌspɛɪgl̩ was an impudent Trickster figure who originated The never realised Flight of the Bumblebee sequence later turned into the Bumble Boogie sequence from Melody Time. Melody Time (first released on May 27, 1948) is an Animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by

Disney's dream was belatedly and finally fulfilled with the release of Fantasia 2000 in IMAX theaters on January 1, 2000. Fantasia 2000 is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. IMAX (short for Image MAXimum is a Film format created by Canada 's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The film was put into general release half a year later. Fantasia 2000 repurposed The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence with Mickey Mouse, but otherwise consisted entirely of new material. Celebrities such as Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, and James Earl Jones served as hosts of the various sections of the film. Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born October 16, 1925) is an English Golden Globe Award and Tony Award winning Actress Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an Emmy Award -winning American Actor, Comedian, Writer, James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American Actor of Film and stage well known for his deep basso

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