In addition, the prestige of being in a Fantasia film meant that Disney had no trouble lining up celebrities to introduce the various sections of film.ĭisney had once planned an international-themed follow-up to Fantasia called Musicana.
Unlike most Disney sequels, this one was actually in accordance with Walt Disney's intent the original idea was to update the film every year, animating one or two new songs every time and rotating older ones out of the print to make room for the fresh material.
note Yes, the movie called Fantasia 2000 was released in the year 1999. The sequence leads to a contrasting sequence to the calm tune of Ave Maria, featuring a procession of pilgrims walking through a forest with the rocks and trees evoking a cathedral, to witness the dawn.Ī sequel was made in 1999: Fantasia 2000. The word "chernabog" in Russian literally means "Black God" ) raising the dead from the grave. The first half of this sequence is probably the most frightening sequence in Disney animation, featuring Chernabog (who is essentially the Devil, instead of an actual Slavic Pagan deity note In the film the character is more or less explicitly identified as Satan he only started being called "Chernabog" decades later for business reasons. Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria, composed by Modest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert, respectively.In this comedic sequence, ballet-dancing anthropomorphic animals (ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators), representing the times of day (morning, noon, evening and night) dance in time to the music in a loose adaptation of its original ballet, La Gioconda. Dance of the Hours, composed by Amilcare Ponchielli.Surprisingly, this features no characters from the Nutcracker ballet, note As host Deems Taylor points out, "Incidentally, uh, you won't see any 'nutcracker' on the screen there's nothing left of him but the title." but original sequences based on the Seasons featuring dancing fairies, fish, flowers, leaves, and even mushrooms (not a samba, however).
The Nutcracker Suite, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.This sequence features abstract images, shapes and forms moving in time to the music. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.The film consists of animated sequences synchronized to classic pieces of music. Another way to describe it as is Silly Symphonies: The Movie. It's a surreal, yet classic blend of animation and Classical Music, often considered to have been ahead of its time back in the day. Fantasia is a 1940 animated film from Walt Disney collaborating with celebrated conductor Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and the third entry in the Disney Animated Canon.