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 (uncredited), Ben Sharpsteen (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical |
| Top Topics | Disney |
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Fantasia (1940) was a Animation - Family Film directed by 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.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Fantasia was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1990.
Academy Awards 1941 --- Ceremony Number 14 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Special Award | To 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 Award | To 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 |
BlogHub Articles:
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
on Jul 20, 2013 From Journeys in Classic FilmI 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 Classicsby 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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When Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971, the only featured composer still living in 1940) was contacted about the rights to use "The Rite of Spring," he offered to compose a completely new piece for Walt Disney. This was not taken, and Stravinsky hated Leopold Stokowski's 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 Fantasia).
For the ostriches and alligator in the "Dance of the Hours" and the demons in the "Night on Bald Mountain" number, Walt Disney hired the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as live-action reference models. Among the dancers who posed for the animators: Léonide Massine, Tamara Toumanova, Alexandra Danilova, Irina Baronova, Frederic Franklin, Nathalie Krassovska, Milada Mladova, Cyd Charisse, and Marc Platt.
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