Fantasia - [DVD] [1940]

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However, for Night on Bald Mountain, he used Mussorgsky's original orchestration instead of Leopold Stokowski's own edition that was part of the original soundtrack. Proceeds made on the night went to the British War Relief Society for the efforts in the Battle of Britain. He found Rhapsody in Blue to be the second-best in the film with its witty, hyper-kinetic evocation of the melting pot with sharply defined characters. An early concept for The Rite of Spring was to extend the story to the age of mammals and the first humans and the discovery of fire and man's triumph.

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The animators' preliminary designs depicted a Greco-Roman setting; one of the staff members described the artwork as "an appalling abuse" of the characters. Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion. He compared the film's orchestra set to scenes from A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and thought the CGI in Symphony No. The energy absorbs into his blood, whereupon he performs magical feats not unlike those of his mentor.

In November 2000, Fantasia was released on video for the second time, this time along with Fantasia 2000, on DVD with 5.

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Donald is given the task of gathering the animals to the Ark, and misses, loses, and reunites with Daisy in the process. A flock of flamingoes tries to force a slapstick member, who enjoys playing with a yo-yo, to engage in the flock's "dull" routines.

In addition, he had some very interesting ideas on instrumental coloring, which would be perfect for an animation medium.

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When Humphries saw the sketches he designed the segment with works by Caravaggio and Rembrandt in mind to give the segment a "timeless" feel, while keeping the colors "as romantic as possible" during the scenes when the soldier and ballerina are first getting acquainted. The soundtrack went on to reach the number one spot on the Billboard Top Classical Albums chart in July 2000. The servant has been excised from all prints in circulation since 1969 (often by the use of pan and zoom, so the scene doesn't focus on her), although the clip has recently turned up on various blogs and internet media. Hal Horne, a publicist for Disney's film distributor RKO Radio Pictures, wished for a different title and gave the suggestion Filmharmonic Concert. Recently, we've done several changes to help out this wiki, from deleting empty pages, improving the navigation, adding a rules page, as well as merging film infoboxes.Hunt first thought of the story on a morning walk in Pasadena, California, one depicting a battle of "good" against "evil" and how the conflict resolves itself. On September 29, 1938, around sixty of Disney's artists gathered for a two-and-a-half hour piano concert while he provided a running commentary about the new musical feature. Recording began that April and lasted for seven weeks at the Academy of Music, the orchestra's home, which was chosen for its excellent acoustics. In 1980, animators Wolfgang Reitherman and Mel Shaw started preliminary work on Musicana, a feature film "mixing jazz, classical music, myths, modern art.

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In the late 1930s-early 1940s, after all the segments for Fantasia had been selected, Walt asked his storymen and artists to start coming up with ideas for segments that could be included in follow-ups to the film. It is based on an original story by Hans Christian Andersen entitled The Little Girl with the Matches or The Little Match Girl, published in 1845. High-kicking thistles, dressed like Cossacks, and orchids dressed like lovely Russian peasant girls, join together for the wild "Russian Dance.Between the individual takes, prints, and remakes, approximately three million feet of sound film was used in the production of Fantasia. Then the frost fairies arrive and everything becomes part of an icy, jewellike pattern among falling snowflakes.