Fantasia changed my life. It introduced me to a world of color and wonder that I’ve never forgotten. It may not have been the financial success that Disney anticipated but the impact it had on the hearts of young artist around the world is nothing short of a spiritual phenomenon.
Absolutely! And it makes me think about how things changed nowadays. Today it's just about numbers and Money. No more risks are taken, no more art. Just quick money and noone dares to dream anymore. At least it seems so... From todays perspective, you can say a lot about 'the old' Disney. But they surely dared to dream back then!
Same here, although in my case it awakened my interest in Classical Music. First time I saw it as a kid of maybe 5, I was just beginning to get interested in music anyway, and seeing the movie & hearing the music....it was like I'd stepped into a whole new world (to coin a phrase.) I remember really, really wanting to get an album of the entire movie soundtrack for a long time but for some reason my parents thought I only wanted the "Nutcracker" sequence & nothing else...so they only bought me recordings of that, but not the _rest_ of the movie. And I was like, "No, I want the _whole_ movie! The Bach sequence, the Dance of the Hours, _everything!"_ I never did manage to get a full album of the soundtrack 'til I was nearly an adult...
Arthyem You’re so lucky that your grandma went to see this one it was in theaters I bet she liked it that’s really cool you’re like you have a grandma that went to see this movie
I used to borrow this movie, on VHS, from my neighbors. Then they moved away and I couldn't see it again. When I turned 28 my parents got it for me on DVD - I was thrilled. I'm 32, almost 33, now and it's still my favorite movie. I love the Nutcracker Suit and the Pastoral as well. Ava Maria and Night on Bald Mountain was amazing as well. It was such a great piece of creativity by the Disney studios. I wish we could do what Walt wanted - continue it. Take some pieces out and add in new ones - never ending. It made me love classical music as a child, and I still do.
Have you noticed the narrative of Deams Taylor's narrative plus a bizarre break between the sound bar scene is absance in the vhs makes the vhs more special
Fantasia is not only my favorite Disney movie, it's easily one of my favorite movies PERIOD. Why? Because not only is it such a visually stunning "concert feature" (especially for the standards of 1940), revolutionized film itself with the creation of surround-sound (something we take for granted in modern movies), it is also a concentrated testament to the power of art. Throughout his life, Walt Disney was a man who walked the line between being an artist and a businessman. Even with his best movies, you could still get the impression that he made them to build his brand. With Fantasia, Walt seemed to say "Fuck it! Damn the expense! I'm gonna do something great!". He actually wanted to make a SERIES of Fantasia movies, but he sank so much into making this one that it just wasn't feasible. This felt like the one movie where money didn't matter as much to a man like Disney (the proof is in the production costs) as much as giving the public a marvelous experience, purely through artistry and music. It was the one time Walt Disney, shrewd businessman that he was, felt like being an artist for the sake of art.
Walt Disney was a very gifted person and an adult trapped in his never ending happy childhood. I had a first taste of his magic when I was a four year-old toddler... And I'm still a WD fan. Thanks a lot for all your magic Mr. Disney, your heritage still lives on!!!
It was way before its time. Walt had to understand it would take a decade and a generation of the audience to cultivate the appreciation of what they were witnessing.
I saw Fantasia somewhere in England (probably London) some time in the 1950s. I was born in 1950, so was fairly young - under 8 years old, anyway. It had a tremendous effect on me - I thought (and still do) that it was truly wonderful, and has stayed with me ever since. It was a real experience, unlike any other before or since.
I first saw this movie in about 1970. At the time I didn't really get it...but I could tell it was something special. When it was released into theaters for the last time in 1990, you can bet I went to see it as soon as was possible. And it's now #1 on my personal list of the 10 best animated films of all time.
The way Fantasia got mixed reviews upon initial release and being a box failure but being reevaluated by critics during it's reissues and becoming a classic is what also happened with Sleeping Beauty.
now this is a guy who was truly passionate in making art in a new medium, who really believes in movies could be something that's accessible to everyone, building the concept of families together through good story telling, and has generation of people after him in his company to continue his legacy. John Lassetter is very similar to Uncle Walt in this light.
One of my very favorite art teachers, Charles Bluske, worked on this film... it’s life changing in its concept... So grateful.🥰🙋‼️ thank you Charles for all you taught me and for sharing your genius🤗
Such a wonderful documentary! Fantasia is my favourite animated film ever, and it’s history is endlessly fascinating and utterly heartbreaking at the same time. It really hurts that the film didn’t get the success that it deserved when first released, as what would have followed could have been truly incredible! As stated “Animation is an art form”, and Fantasia is the quintessential example of that statement. The animation and filmmaking process of Fantasia is truly insane, especially as it was completed a mere four hours before it’s theatrical release on November 13th 1940. THIS is a special film in history. I have never seen anything like it. Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ have mild similarities, and stark differences, yet Fantasia remains to be ultimately unique and abstract in form and structure. I make a bold statement to call this THE most beautiful film ever made. Beautiful is one of the easiest words to describe Fantasia, and it wraps itself all over the feature. The most beautiful ending with Ave Maria, I have never seen topped. A marriage of classical music and animation makes for a true masterpiece of cinema, and one of the most important films of all time.
Anyone who has an interest in animation or loves animation an art done by hand in a beautiful way has to see this film. It is a great amazing masterpiece that shows what hand-painted animation can do.
@@rachelgarber1423bullshit look at what avatar did with cgi stop with nonsens you think you movies think again everthing can be done avatar way of water is a great example
The artwork used in the making of Fantasia is as stunning as it is to watch within the film where it served as a mere 24th of a second in time. It has been a privilege to preserve and conserve it.
so beautiful, mesmerizing, and such hard work, really brought such how should i say awe to audience. I find 'fantasia' very soothing and lovely. Maybe because of music, see what i mean truly creative people are only concerned about their art, nothing else.
When I was a Little Child, at School our Teacher made Us listen a Piece of Classical Music and We Had to draw a Story about what We heard . It was so Important for Me, that I become a Lover of all Styles of Music and a Specialist of Classical Music at a Young age . FANTASIA STILL STAY VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME ! MY FAVORITE DISNEY FILM !
I wasn't born when Fantasia was released to the general public. I discovered it when I was in grammar school. Since then (until its DVD release) every time the Disney Studio resurrected it and sent it once again around to selected theaters, I would go 4, 5, sometimes 7 times to see it. Whenever it came back to Chicago, my friends ran away screaming, because I was always asking them to go with me; I hated at that time to go to a movie by myself. Once was enough for them, but not for me. I was so familiar with the music, I instantly knew when the sound track had been replaced with a new recoding, which I believe, happened when the original film was being restored. Thank goodness, the original sound track was remastered and married back to the refreshed visuals. This IS my favorite movie of all time, followed by, in no particular order, On the Waterfront, Fly Away Home, The Black Stallion (first half), and the original 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Lol I'll bet Leonard Maltin's science teacher at the time was like "Remember class, the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus rex would have never fought together."
When I was in highschool, for music class our music teacher would have us listen to classical pieces, a lot of which appeared in Fantasia. It was then I heard them only for the 2nd time since my childhood, when I saw the film. In order to be able to remember and recognize them for the final exam (TH-cam didn't exist yet), I wrote down in my notes 'Nutcracker Suite - Fantasia dancing flowers. Rite of Spring - Fantasia dinosaurs' etc.
Masterpiece, being an artist myself its a huge inspiration as well. My favorite part is Rite of Spring, that's probably the best animated dinosaurs ever, with the knowledge of dinosaurs back then. All of Fantasia is like an adventure from start to finish. It starts soft with the abstracts and ends soft with ave maria.
I love both Fantasia films, I love the sequences and the art style for each, and music and how the animation goes with the music, just beautiful My favourite parts from each Fantasia: Sorcerers Apprentice, Dance Of The Hours, Rite of Springs and Night on Bald Mountain Fantasia 2000: Firebird Suite, Rhapsody in Blue, Pomp and Circumstances and Pines of Rome
Stereo had already been heard in film theatres since the 1910s, many theatres were home to pipe organs, many of which were divided on either side of the stage to give a stereo sound.
A night on Bald Mountain is a little spooky but when I watched this piece of music in Fantasia I was a little terrified. Of all the pieces of music in Fantasia I think the 1 that I love is the nutcracker suite. I love this piece of music because it's pretty, it takes place in the land of sweets(the music represents each scene) and it reminds me of the famous movie also written by the same composer who wrote this music and that movie is Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Fantasia is essentially Walt Disney's Masterpiece. My favourite piece of music in this? The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Walt Disney could not have chosen a better character, to portray the apprentice, than Mickey Mouse. I did have the Sequel, Fantasia 2000. I guess a new favourite story of mine from that would be The Steadfast Tin Soldier. A jealous Jack-in-the-Box gets rid of the soldier, who has only one leg. The tin soldier then gets eaten by a fish that is caught. The young boy retrieves the soldier and returns him to his rightful place. Jack-in-the-Box is taught a lesson as he plunges into the fireplace, and peace is restored. Yet, although Donald and Daisy Duck were added to the list in Pomp & Circumstance, I feel Fantasia 2000 isn't truly up to its own musical standards. Fantasia is the better story of the two.
So, they put filmed live action practical effects over or under the animated parts of those segments? That ol' Disney, he sure knew how to blow our minds out of the water.
I really like "Fantasia" in particular: Rite of Spring, Dance of the Hours and Night on Bald Mountain. HOWEVER music and the scenes I use it in many of my works.
What I love about fantasia is that it's on walt Disney presents. But I love mickey's performance. And I think the men should know that the sorcerer's apprentice is a live action movie.
So, as much as I love this documentary about Fantasia, they left out one important detail: Bela Lugosi, who played Universal's first iconic portrayal of Dracula, was invited in to model for Chernabog's poses. And although the animators said they didn't use his poses, and the director himself did them, if you really look at Lugosi as Dracula, you can still really see his influence in Chernabog's animation, especially his face and hands. I absolutely love this detail, it's one of the best bits of trivia about the Bald Mountain segment. :) Again, I still love this documentary, but they left out that detail. LOL
Unclear which version of Fantasia is currently being shown on DVD - the original 124 feature, or the reduced 81 minute. Fantasia was ahead of its time. It was discovered, in my memory, in the 1960's and 70's by the rock generation as the scenic equivalent of an hallucinogen. It became extremely popular. But in 1940, only the more sophisticated public in the major cities (NY and LA) could appreciate all that classical music, and worse, no story. Never underestimate the power of a good story. Walt Disney was a great storyteller, and in Fantasia he stepped away from his great strength, to the dismay of much of his public. It took an entire new generation to appreciate Fantasia.
as someone who has worked with sound editing and restoration, I have heard the original fantasia soundtrack and to modern earphone ears, it's rather evoking seasickness it would work in theaters where the sound ambiance would blend it well. well, the early stereo sound was just two tracks wile modern stereo is in reality 3 tracks 1 and 2 are the real stereo and the 3rd is a lower volume mono track blending it all together so that you don't get the overpowering effect of left-right-left-right! that make you seasick I used this 3 track trick to make existing historical mono recordings stereo. now the fantasia soundtrack has been edited to modern standards
Wait a minute, New Dream Music Collection; Song Books, Dance Cards, Choir and Concert Costumes, Warm Up and Cool Down Clothes, Dancing Shoes, Smart Fantasound Inventions, Play Along Instruments, CDs, Tape Cassettes, Records, 8-Tracks, Music and Lyric Videos, Radio Stations, Gramophone and Phonograph Horns, Scripts, Major and Minor Role Models, Dance Along Exercise Games, Invitations, Tickets, and Posters.
I remember when I was in 2nd grade and if we got enough points for reading we were able to sit inside and eat our lunch while watching a movie, I picked this movie and I remember crying while watching it because I had no friends who would come watch it with me god I hated elementary school 💀💀
My favorite film: My faves are: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Rite of Spring, The Pastoral Symphony and Night on Bald Mountain. Sorcerer's Apprentice SCARED me when I was little, and I never liked it (but i don't mind it nowadays)
I was in my 20s, and my husband and I dropped some acid and went to see it. You can’t imagine what it’s like trying to drive when you’re on acid, but I managed it. My FIL dropped acid with us, and we went to see it together, with me convincing him that I took it earlier and already came down. It was an unbelievable experience to watch Fantasia while tripping on LSD
@@rachelgarber1423 Oh. Driving on it was the best . I was always designated driver . I remember going down a mountain and the road was like a belly of a snake . Round & round .. Soon on the freeway I was in star wars trench battle . Great memories.
Fantasia came out a few months after Pinocchio in 1940 but that's not all the animations in those two are really similar to each other kinda like they share the same world and their music sounds really similar how beautiful they sound and they both show highly inappropriate adult things like drinking smoking nudity and swearing
Dillion Kinder One premiered in theaters on Wednesday, February 7, 1940 in New York City, New York; while the other was released in theaters on Wednesday, November 13, 1940 in the United States.
Although considered one of my favorite movies, still I can’t get enough about enjoying the history of behind the scenes to it. That’s why a movie has more than just the film as a whole to watch entirely. Another thing I wanted to include was that it failed at first then out of the ordinary became a hit decades later, it’s that philosophy quote I made: “Failed in the past, succeed in the future.”
I wish this sort of documentary was on the VHS I grew up watching. The thing was magnificent at face value, but I'd have appreciated the colossal behind-the-scenes work better.
Never seen this documentary until now, but the interesting part at 34:18, is about "Fantasound", a sound that never came to be, but it predates stereophonic sound. The reason what stereo was used in a form of "Fantasound" is that stereo didn't come out until 1957 when a cheap record label called Audio Fidelity was introduced to a new form of stereophonic sound called "Stereodisc". They put out a series of stereo demonstration albums including the classic "Sounds in Space" released on the RCA Victor label, the best stereo demonstration album ever made, and that was 1958. By 1957, when Audio Fidelity was released stereo albums including the popular "Sound Effects" series which was a novelty for its time, Disneyland released a soundtrack album in both monaural and stereo, it contains a 24-page booklet and a set of 3 records which ended up being a 3-LP set. I have the soundtrack to this movie and it was on the Buena Vista label. By the 1970's when "Fantasia" was re-issued many times, quadraphonic sound was a big improvement than stereo. It had 4 speakers which are 4 channels to get the best surround sound out there. Quadraphonic comes in 3 different matrixes, such as SQ, QS and CD-4. It was a critical success until the late 70's, and it never happened again until the 1990's when Dolby was introduced to 4.1 surround sound and it continues to this day.
Stereo music RECORDS were introduced in 1958 -- but stereophonic recording & playback for the home (via reel-to-reel tape) predates that by around 3 years.
@@Musicradio77Network I can remember very clearly, that my dad bought one of the first stereo console record players, in 1959...there were not many albums yet released in stereo that year, but dad bought a few, and we wore those lps out!
Fantasound was the early version of what would later become known as Stereophonic Sound. When the soundtrack was released in 1957, it was in stereo. One of the first examples was Audio Fidelity Records, they introduced the world’s first stereophonic album in November 1957. By early 1958, major record companies had jumped on the stereo bandwagon due to the success of the “Fantasia” soundtrack.
I guess the Sorcerer's Apprentice was supposed to be the one piece that was in all Fantasia films. It's the only one that appears in both existing movies.
During the construction of Disneyland one of the attractions Walt wanted to have couldn't be done because the technology didn't exist said a contractor. Walt simply told them Make it exist.
I'll bet if Walt Disney made a Fantasia Concert Feature and a Musicana Concert Feature, he'd have included musical instruments, singing voice types, lyrical notes, and dances from around the world.
This is on the 2000 DVD version which didn't do a good job with the restoration. I have the 2010 version, which includes Fantasia 2000, and did a brilliant job with the restoration.
i saw this film when i was young in a VHS. i regret letting my mom throw my fathers VHS tapes the trash, when they could've been donated... maybe fantasia was in there.
How Did they Do It?! Fantasia was being made in 1938-40 the same time Pinocchio & Bambi were being Made, and they still had Time and did all these films in 2 Years Unbelievable I don't know how you can Produce Three Films Back to Back!!! Seems Overwhelming & Impossible!!!!!!! Well Done Mr. Disney Amazing!!!!!!!!
He had recently been very blessed with cash, from the huge success of Snow White--so he simply spent most of that wad of money to further his artistic visions.
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Fantasia changed my life. It introduced me to a world of color and wonder that I’ve never forgotten. It may not have been the financial success that Disney anticipated but the impact it had on the hearts of young artist around the world is nothing short of a spiritual phenomenon.
Agreed. Influenced a lot of art.
Absolutely!
And it makes me think about how things changed nowadays.
Today it's just about numbers and Money.
No more risks are taken, no more art.
Just quick money and noone dares to dream anymore.
At least it seems so...
From todays perspective, you can say a lot about 'the old' Disney. But they surely dared to dream back then!
@@Dreamforge.Atelier BELEIVE it or not, it kinda always been the negative way you have stated.
Same here, although in my case it awakened my interest in Classical Music. First time I saw it as a kid of maybe 5, I was just beginning to get interested in music anyway, and seeing the movie & hearing the music....it was like I'd stepped into a whole new world (to coin a phrase.) I remember really, really wanting to get an album of the entire movie soundtrack for a long time but for some reason my parents thought I only wanted the "Nutcracker" sequence & nothing else...so they only bought me recordings of that, but not the _rest_ of the movie. And I was like, "No, I want the _whole_ movie! The Bach sequence, the Dance of the Hours, _everything!"_ I never did manage to get a full album of the soundtrack 'til I was nearly an adult...
I just hope Walt knows, wherever he is, that this is an unforgettable masterpiece now.
My Grandma told me that she saw this movie very young in theaters and it was one of the best experience of her life
Arthyem You’re so lucky that your grandma went to see this one it was in theaters I bet she liked it that’s really cool you’re like you have a grandma that went to see this movie
That's awesome
My grandfather didn't since this came out in the 1940s my grandfather was in World War 2 at that time.
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My grandparent's first date was to see this movie and they had ice cream after :)
I used to borrow this movie, on VHS, from my neighbors. Then they moved away and I couldn't see it again. When I turned 28 my parents got it for me on DVD - I was thrilled. I'm 32, almost 33, now and it's still my favorite movie. I love the Nutcracker Suit and the Pastoral as well. Ava Maria and Night on Bald Mountain was amazing as well. It was such a great piece of creativity by the Disney studios. I wish we could do what Walt wanted - continue it. Take some pieces out and add in new ones - never ending. It made me love classical music as a child, and I still do.
Have you noticed the narrative of Deams Taylor's narrative plus a bizarre break between the sound bar scene is absance in the vhs makes the vhs more special
"Walt was always miles in front of you." Such a hard-worker and an incredible legacy.
I loved Fantasia. The music, the animation, and how they both merged to bring the music to life. Walt Disney had a fascinating imagination.
This film has been a major influence on me growing up as well as my decision to become an animator (that and my mothers strict rules)
TheMormonSorceress wow
It was indeed...🥰
Fantasia is not only my favorite Disney movie, it's easily one of my favorite movies PERIOD. Why? Because not only is it such a visually stunning "concert feature" (especially for the standards of 1940), revolutionized film itself with the creation of surround-sound (something we take for granted in modern movies), it is also a concentrated testament to the power of art.
Throughout his life, Walt Disney was a man who walked the line between being an artist and a businessman. Even with his best movies, you could still get the impression that he made them to build his brand. With Fantasia, Walt seemed to say "Fuck it! Damn the expense! I'm gonna do something great!". He actually wanted to make a SERIES of Fantasia movies, but he sank so much into making this one that it just wasn't feasible.
This felt like the one movie where money didn't matter as much to a man like Disney (the proof is in the production costs) as much as giving the public a marvelous experience, purely through artistry and music. It was the one time Walt Disney, shrewd businessman that he was, felt like being an artist for the sake of art.
Greatest work of animation EVER, CGI could never replicate this masterpiece
I will never forget the day when my dad rented the VHS in a Video Store and brought it Home. I fell in Love. And i am still in Love...
One of my favourites from being a child. Even now, listening to classical music, I put the music to pictures.
Walt Disney was a very gifted person and an adult trapped in his never ending happy childhood. I had a first taste of his magic when I was a four year-old toddler... And I'm still a WD fan.
Thanks a lot for all your magic Mr. Disney, your heritage still lives on!!!
With today’s technology, we are now able to watch Fantasia the way it was originally intended in true digital surround sound
It was way before its time. Walt had to understand it would take a decade and a generation of the audience to cultivate the appreciation of what they were witnessing.
I saw Fantasia somewhere in England (probably London) some time in the 1950s. I was born in 1950, so was fairly young - under 8 years old, anyway. It had a tremendous effect on me - I thought (and still do) that it was truly wonderful, and has stayed with me ever since. It was a real experience, unlike any other before or since.
I first saw this movie in about 1970. At the time I didn't really get it...but I could tell it was something special. When it was released into theaters for the last time in 1990, you can bet I went to see it as soon as was possible. And it's now #1 on my personal list of the 10 best animated films of all time.
The way Fantasia got mixed reviews upon initial release and being a box failure but being reevaluated by critics during it's reissues and becoming a classic is what also happened with Sleeping Beauty.
A true masterpiece!!! One of the greatest movies of all times!!!
Funny, even though it was a major failure at box offices, Fantasia is one of my favorite Disney movies. It's truly art on a screen.
The critics were praising Fantasia for _reviving_ ballet...
now this is a guy who was truly passionate in making art in a new medium, who really believes in movies could be something that's accessible to everyone, building the concept of families together through good story telling, and has generation of people after him in his company to continue his legacy. John Lassetter is very similar to Uncle Walt in this light.
One of my very favorite art teachers, Charles Bluske, worked on this film... it’s life changing in its concept... So grateful.🥰🙋‼️ thank you Charles for all you taught me and for sharing your genius🤗
You should upload some art videos.
Wow, that’s awesome
Thus began my lifelong love of classical music, since the 1950's.
as a vfx artist myself , i can't believe what those guys achieved in 30's. all techniques are still being used today in digital platforms .
Such a wonderful documentary!
Fantasia is my favourite animated film ever, and it’s history is endlessly fascinating and utterly heartbreaking at the same time.
It really hurts that the film didn’t get the success that it deserved when first released, as what would have followed could have been truly incredible!
As stated “Animation is an art form”, and Fantasia is the quintessential example of that statement.
The animation and filmmaking process of Fantasia is truly insane, especially as it was completed a mere four hours before it’s theatrical release on November 13th 1940.
THIS is a special film in history. I have never seen anything like it. Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ have mild similarities, and stark differences, yet Fantasia remains to be ultimately unique and abstract in form and structure.
I make a bold statement to call this THE most beautiful film ever made. Beautiful is one of the easiest words to describe Fantasia, and it wraps itself all over the feature.
The most beautiful ending with Ave Maria, I have never seen topped.
A marriage of classical music and animation makes for a true masterpiece of cinema, and one of the most important films of all time.
My favourite Disney movie of all-time
Anyone who has an interest in animation or loves animation an art done by hand in a beautiful way has to see this film. It is a great amazing masterpiece that shows what hand-painted animation can do.
And something CGI could never replicate
Walt Disney. Records. 😮.
@@rachelgarber1423bullshit look at what avatar did with cgi stop with nonsens you think you movies think again everthing can be done avatar way of water is a great example
The artwork used in the making of Fantasia is as stunning as it is to watch within the film where it served as a mere 24th of a second in time.
It has been a privilege to preserve and conserve it.
You work for Disney?
so beautiful, mesmerizing, and such hard work, really brought such how should i say awe to audience. I find 'fantasia' very soothing and lovely. Maybe because of music, see what i mean truly creative people are only concerned about their art, nothing else.
Fantasia is my favorite thing to listen to when I'm reading a good book. ^^
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The music of Fantasia is very spellbinding to me even at 75 years old. I love this movie to this day.
@@gailhandschuh1138 And now, Fantasia (1940) had its 80th anniversary on November 13, 2020.
When I was a Little Child, at School our Teacher made Us listen a Piece of Classical Music and We Had to draw a Story about what We heard . It was so Important for Me, that I become a Lover of all Styles of Music and a Specialist of Classical Music at a Young age . FANTASIA STILL STAY VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME ! MY FAVORITE DISNEY FILM !
I wasn't born when Fantasia was released to the general public. I discovered it when I was in grammar school. Since then (until its DVD release) every time the Disney Studio resurrected it and sent it once again around to selected theaters, I would go 4, 5, sometimes 7 times to see it. Whenever it came back to Chicago, my friends ran away screaming, because I was always asking them to go with me; I hated at that time to go to a movie by myself. Once was enough for them, but not for me.
I was so familiar with the music, I instantly knew when the sound track had been replaced with a new recoding, which I believe, happened when the original film was being restored. Thank goodness, the original sound track was remastered and married back to the refreshed visuals. This IS my favorite movie of all time, followed by, in no particular order, On the Waterfront, Fly Away Home, The Black Stallion (first half), and the original 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Lol I'll bet Leonard Maltin's science teacher at the time was like "Remember class, the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus rex would have never fought together."
Rachel DeRosier "...And the T-Rex did NOT have three fingers on each hand."
And volcanoes don't usually erupt at the exact same time with too much lava.
When I was in highschool, for music class our music teacher would have us listen to classical pieces, a lot of which appeared in Fantasia. It was then I heard them only for the 2nd time since my childhood, when I saw the film. In order to be able to remember and recognize them for the final exam (TH-cam didn't exist yet), I wrote down in my notes 'Nutcracker Suite - Fantasia dancing flowers. Rite of Spring - Fantasia dinosaurs' etc.
Masterpiece, being an artist myself its a huge inspiration as well. My favorite part is Rite of Spring, that's probably the best animated dinosaurs ever, with the knowledge of dinosaurs back then. All of Fantasia is like an adventure from start to finish. It starts soft with the abstracts and ends soft with ave maria.
Fantasia was the ever changing movie. Every time you'd look at it , it's different. Amazing idea.
I love both Fantasia films, I love the sequences and the art style for each, and music and how the animation goes with the music, just beautiful
My favourite parts from each
Fantasia: Sorcerers Apprentice, Dance Of The Hours, Rite of Springs and Night on Bald Mountain
Fantasia 2000: Firebird Suite, Rhapsody in Blue, Pomp and Circumstances and Pines of Rome
Stereo had already been heard in film theatres since the 1910s, many theatres were home to pipe organs, many of which were divided on either side of the stage to give a stereo sound.
This making is UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL, and I can't wait fir the 2nd half of it :)
There was a "making of" featurette like this on the 2001 Snow White DVD. The film it was about is quite obvious.
+Andrew Asaro I see, Thank you. Do you know where I can find the same making but for Snow white and Lilo and Stinch?
6:12 Walt with Laurel & Hardy, three of my favorite movie makers in the same picture
I like the T-rex roar, cool! I can use the dinosaurs as the basis for How the Littlest Stegosaurus got his Plate, cool idea
A night on Bald Mountain is a little spooky but when I watched this piece of music in Fantasia I was a little terrified. Of all the pieces of music in Fantasia I think the 1 that I love is the nutcracker suite. I love this piece of music because it's pretty, it takes place in the land of sweets(the music represents each scene) and it reminds me of the famous movie also written by the same composer who wrote this music and that movie is Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Fantasia is essentially Walt Disney's Masterpiece. My favourite piece of music in this? The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Walt Disney could not have chosen a better character, to portray the apprentice, than Mickey Mouse. I did have the Sequel, Fantasia 2000. I guess a new favourite story of mine from that would be The Steadfast Tin Soldier. A jealous Jack-in-the-Box gets rid of the soldier, who has only one leg. The tin soldier then gets eaten by a fish that is caught. The young boy retrieves the soldier and returns him to his rightful place. Jack-in-the-Box is taught a lesson as he plunges into the fireplace, and peace is restored. Yet, although Donald and Daisy Duck were added to the list in Pomp & Circumstance, I feel Fantasia 2000 isn't truly up to its own musical standards. Fantasia is the better story of the two.
I love Fantasia one of my best Disney all time and I got it a dvd
And then Fantasia 2000. Glorious!
So, they put filmed live action practical effects over or under the animated parts of those segments?
That ol' Disney, he sure knew how to blow our minds out of the water.
The whale, when the little whale got seperated from it’s mother, the music is serene, magical.
That’s what makes me in love with fantasia.
I really like "Fantasia" in particular: Rite of Spring, Dance of the Hours and Night on Bald Mountain. HOWEVER music and the scenes I use it in many of my works.
3:05 I love how he says “those wonderlands” lol
Fantasia is my favorite film
R.I.P Marc Davis
The first and only full length feature Disney film in the Disney Golden Age not to be an adaptation to a source material.
One could say the music was the adapted source material
Well at least the visuals is an original content.
What I love about fantasia is that it's on walt Disney presents. But I love mickey's performance. And I think the men should know that the sorcerer's apprentice is a live action movie.
R.I.P Ward Kimball
Alexandre Beaudoin-Iaporte He only lived for 88 years from 1914 to 2002.
So, as much as I love this documentary about Fantasia, they left out one important detail: Bela Lugosi, who played Universal's first iconic portrayal of Dracula, was invited in to model for Chernabog's poses. And although the animators said they didn't use his poses, and the director himself did them, if you really look at Lugosi as Dracula, you can still really see his influence in Chernabog's animation, especially his face and hands. I absolutely love this detail, it's one of the best bits of trivia about the Bald Mountain segment. :) Again, I still love this documentary, but they left out that detail. LOL
He’s mentioned in another video about the making of Fantasia
Unclear which version of Fantasia is currently being shown on DVD - the original 124 feature, or the reduced 81 minute.
Fantasia was ahead of its time. It was discovered, in my memory, in the 1960's and 70's by the rock generation as the scenic equivalent of an hallucinogen. It became extremely popular. But in 1940, only the more sophisticated public in the major cities (NY and LA) could appreciate all that classical music, and worse, no story. Never underestimate the power of a good story. Walt Disney was a great storyteller, and in Fantasia he stepped away from his great strength, to the dismay of much of his public. It took an entire new generation to appreciate Fantasia.
R.I.P Walt Disney
@@markbraley9361 Mozart was born the same day, December 5th! But in 1756... so Walt was born 145 years later!
@@vessiealdakou2292 I didn't know that, but now I do.
He hated Jews btw
@@markbraley9361 Another victim of cigarettes!...So many of his generation had that habit, and many of them died from cancer.
My favorite episode on fantasia is the rite of spring which is about dinosaurs and the early history of earth.
as someone who has worked with sound editing and restoration, I have heard the original fantasia soundtrack and to modern earphone ears, it's rather evoking seasickness it would work in theaters where the sound ambiance would blend it well.
well, the early stereo sound was just two tracks wile modern stereo is in reality 3 tracks 1 and 2 are the real stereo and the 3rd is a lower volume mono track blending it all together so that you don't get the overpowering effect of left-right-left-right! that make you seasick
I used this 3 track trick to make existing historical mono recordings stereo.
now the fantasia soundtrack has been edited to modern standards
Wait a minute, New Dream Music Collection; Song Books, Dance Cards, Choir and Concert Costumes, Warm Up and Cool Down Clothes, Dancing Shoes, Smart Fantasound Inventions, Play Along Instruments, CDs, Tape Cassettes, Records, 8-Tracks, Music and Lyric Videos, Radio Stations, Gramophone and Phonograph Horns, Scripts, Major and Minor Role Models, Dance Along Exercise Games, Invitations, Tickets, and Posters.
buenísimo este video sobre el detrás de cámara de fantasia ya espero ver la segunda parte , yesssss
I remember when I was in 2nd grade and if we got enough points for reading we were able to sit inside and eat our lunch while watching a movie, I picked this movie and I remember crying while watching it because I had no friends who would come watch it with me god I hated elementary school 💀💀
😢 Sorry your friends let you down. I hated school, too, and that was 60 years ago.
Absolute masterpiece beyond words❤️❤️❤️
My favorite film: My faves are: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Rite of Spring, The Pastoral Symphony and Night on Bald Mountain. Sorcerer's Apprentice SCARED me when I was little, and I never liked it (but i don't mind it nowadays)
I discovered this in my teens while in my LSD years . I loved it .
I was in my 20s, and my husband and I dropped some acid and went to see it. You can’t imagine what it’s like trying to drive when you’re on acid, but I managed it. My FIL dropped acid with us, and we went to see it together, with me convincing him that I took it earlier and already came down. It was an unbelievable experience to watch Fantasia while tripping on LSD
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Oh. Driving on it was the best . I was always designated driver .
I remember going down a mountain and the road was like a belly of a snake .
Round & round ..
Soon on the freeway I was in star wars trench battle .
Great memories.
Oh, you're talking about acid. 😂 I misread that as LDS. I was, like, what does being Mormon have to do with anything? And why isn't he one anymore? 🤣
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Haha. Shit no ! I would rather stapple my testicles to the floor than associate with Mormons!
I love Fantasia. thank you Walt Disney ❤️✨
R.I.P Roy Disney
Alexandre Beaudoin-Iaporte One lived for 78 years from 1893 to 1971, the other lived for 79 years from 1930 to 2009.
Great animation
Hosted by David Ogden Stiers (RIP 1942-2018).
He died at age 75.
@@markbraley9361I know that, bladder cancer.
Very nice touch that they had Nutcracker music.
Alex Paumen yeah
If you watch Hallmark Christmas movies, many times you will hear that wonderful music🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
i think both Pinocchio and Fantasia have a lot in common.
Fantasia came out a few months after Pinocchio in 1940 but that's not all the animations in those two are really similar to each other kinda like they share the same world and their music sounds really similar how beautiful they sound and they both show highly inappropriate adult things like drinking smoking nudity and swearing
Fantasia was more expecibe than pinchicco
Dillion Kinder One premiered in theaters on Wednesday, February 7, 1940 in New York City, New York; while the other was released in theaters on Wednesday, November 13, 1940 in the United States.
As a kid I did not get Fantasia, Don't even think my parents did either, but today I know its brilliant!
Walt was a Genius
Although considered one of my favorite movies, still I can’t get enough about enjoying the history of behind the scenes to it. That’s why a movie has more than just the film as a whole to watch entirely.
Another thing I wanted to include was that it failed at first then out of the ordinary became a hit decades later, it’s that philosophy quote I made: “Failed in the past, succeed in the future.”
It's always a "Dance of the Hours" to reconnect with and learn more about our unique and musically conceived animated masterpiece. Stay safe everyone!
Wow didn't know it was That revolutionary!😲
Walt Disney looked like a young Robert Deniro could have played him in his early to mid twenties
I wish this sort of documentary was on the VHS I grew up watching. The thing was magnificent at face value, but I'd have appreciated the colossal behind-the-scenes work better.
If this was one of the more popular Disney films among the general public, it would have been re-released in IMAX 3D recently.
noassbaboon the war made it a flop
nobody could handle all those centaurs in 3d
Was Fantasia really an IMAX 3D movie In theaters
Never seen this documentary until now, but the interesting part at 34:18, is about "Fantasound", a sound that never came to be, but it predates stereophonic sound. The reason what stereo was used in a form of "Fantasound" is that stereo didn't come out until 1957 when a cheap record label called Audio Fidelity was introduced to a new form of stereophonic sound called "Stereodisc". They put out a series of stereo demonstration albums including the classic "Sounds in Space" released on the RCA Victor label, the best stereo demonstration album ever made, and that was 1958. By 1957, when Audio Fidelity was released stereo albums including the popular "Sound Effects" series which was a novelty for its time, Disneyland released a soundtrack album in both monaural and stereo, it contains a 24-page booklet and a set of 3 records which ended up being a 3-LP set. I have the soundtrack to this movie and it was on the Buena Vista label. By the 1970's when "Fantasia" was re-issued many times, quadraphonic sound was a big improvement than stereo. It had 4 speakers which are 4 channels to get the best surround sound out there. Quadraphonic comes in 3 different matrixes, such as SQ, QS and CD-4. It was a critical success until the late 70's, and it never happened again until the 1990's when Dolby was introduced to 4.1 surround sound and it continues to this day.
Stereo music RECORDS were introduced in 1958 -- but stereophonic recording & playback for the home (via reel-to-reel tape) predates that by around 3 years.
@@Onneff69 one of the first record label that introduced to stereo albums was Audio Fidelity back in November 1957.
@@Musicradio77Network I can remember very clearly, that my dad bought one of the first stereo console record players, in 1959...there were not many albums yet released in stereo that year, but dad bought a few, and we wore those lps out!
Fantasound is a wonderful name for a stereophonic Radio.
Fantasound was the early version of what would later become known as Stereophonic Sound. When the soundtrack was released in 1957, it was in stereo. One of the first examples was Audio Fidelity Records, they introduced the world’s first stereophonic album in November 1957. By early 1958, major record companies had jumped on the stereo bandwagon due to the success of the “Fantasia” soundtrack.
I recently rewatched Fantasia as an adult and I may have to ultimately decide that it’s my new all time favorite movie.
7:08-7:10 Come on down and fight, you big palooka!
Just when I thought you'd done them all this pops up, outstanding work my friend!
I guess the Sorcerer's Apprentice was supposed to be the one piece that was in all Fantasia films. It's the only one that appears in both existing movies.
RIP David Ogden Stiers.
He died at age 75.
Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed the clips, art and dialogue.thank you most of all to Disney❤
During the construction of Disneyland one of the attractions
Walt wanted to have couldn't be done because the technology didn't exist said a contractor. Walt simply told them Make it exist.
I think Dumbo had the same optical stereo sound
R.I.P David Ogden Stiers
I'll bet if Walt Disney made a Fantasia Concert Feature and a Musicana Concert Feature, he'd have included musical instruments, singing voice types, lyrical notes, and dances from around the world.
Nice Disney film
This is on the 2000 DVD version which didn't do a good job with the restoration. I have the 2010 version, which includes Fantasia 2000, and did a brilliant job with the restoration.
*Interesting fact:* Dopey from *Snow White* was originally supposed to be the Sorcerer's Apprentice instead of Mickey.
Son of Hecate Interesting fact!
7:12 Let's hope he's right in 2020!
i saw this film when i was young in a VHS. i regret letting my mom throw my fathers VHS tapes the trash, when they could've been donated... maybe fantasia was in there.
this brings back so much memories ☺️
RIP to the narrator of this documentary
The great work of Disney. This is it!
How Did they Do It?! Fantasia was being made in 1938-40 the same time Pinocchio & Bambi were being Made, and they still had Time and did all these films in 2 Years Unbelievable I don't know how you can Produce Three Films Back to Back!!! Seems Overwhelming & Impossible!!!!!!! Well Done Mr. Disney Amazing!!!!!!!!
He had recently been very blessed with cash, from the huge success of Snow White--so he simply spent most of that wad of money to further his artistic visions.
I thought I bit the bullet when I paid $25.00 for my DVD. That same DVD is now going for well over $100.00.
I remember watching Fantasia when I was younger.