Thoughts about the Disney Film Fantasia

[BAYLOR]

Fantasia is unlike anything Disney made before or since . It was a box office failure that didn't really resonate with audiences or critics , at the time of its released back in 1940 Its failure likely did impact the types of films that Disney would produced in the aftermath . i've never seen the full movie, only sections of , The Rite of Sf Spring with Dinosaurs and Night at Bald Mountain, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and i've see bit of some of the other segments . Based on what I've actually seen , this film is nothing short of breathtaking in terms its animation and visuals , story themes and its innovative use of classical music . Long after its box office run , it's achieved legendary status as a great film, a classic and a very much an influential film . It's also a film that I wish I could have seen on the bog screen.

What are your thoughts on this movie?

 

[Snicklefritz]

I first saw Fantasia as a very young child in the late 1940's. Many of those images are still fresh in my memory. And the music -- the music.
Bach's Toccata And Fugue In D Minor became and remains among my most favorite music. Conversely, I've never gotten over the ominousness (is that a word?) of The Rite of Spring. But joy springs eternal from the dancing hippopotamuses, the wonderfully dark Night on Bald Mountain and of course The Nutcracker.
While a small screen doesn't fully do it justice, I certainly encourage you to sit down with intent and watch the entire show in one grand gulp. It's a major life experience.

 

[Snicklefritz]

My original theatre souvenir booklet

 

[BAYLOR]

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My original theatre souvenir booklet

Like Wow !

 

[BAYLOR]

I first saw Fantasia as a very young child in the late 1940's. Many of those images are still fresh in my memory. And the music -- the music.
Bach's Toccata And Fugue In D Minor became and remains among my most favorite music. Conversely, I've never gotten over the ominousness (is that a word?) of The Rite of Spring. But joy springs eternal from the dancing hippopotamuses, the wonderfully dark Night on Bald Mountain and of course The Nutcracker.
While a small screen doesn't fully do it justice, I certainly encourage you to sit down with intent and watch the entire show in one grand gulp. It's a major life experience.

For the past ever Halloween I go YouTube and cache Night On Bald Mountain .Ths animation that the Mussorgsky muscle score potent stuff and watching it in dark room enanachej the viewing experiences. In tiring there are bit in that sequence that Im surprised that the Hays Code of that era didn't take issue with.

 

[Ursa major]

Somewhere around the house (I have no idea where) there's a commercial recording (on a VHS tape) of Fantasia that my parents bought. We all watched it once...

...which was the first time I recall seeing all of it, as opposed to the clips we used to get, from various Disney animated films, on a clip show, The Wonderful World of Disney(?) around Christmas(?) time here in the UK many decades ago.