FANTASIA

Fantasia
Disney, 1942, Color, 125 minutes (cut version 80 minutes)
General release January, 1942

Disney animators set pictures to classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

Produced by: Walt Disney
Directed by: James Algar ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"; Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield ("Rite of Spring"); T. Hee ("Dance of the Hours"); Wilfred Jackson ("Night on Bald Mountain" / "Ave Maria"); Samuel Armstrong ("Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" / "The Nutcracker Suite"); Ford Beebe, Hamilton Luske ("The Pastoral Symphony")
Written by: Elmer Plummer, Phil Dike, Lee Blair ("Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"); Sylvia Moberly-Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie, Graham Heid ("The Nutcracker Suite"); Carl Fallberg, Perce Pearce ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"); William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner, John McLeish ("Rite of Spring"); Webb Smith, Joseph Sabo, Otto Englander, George Stallings, Erdman Penner, Bill Peet ("The Pastoral Symphony"); Phil Dike, Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann ("Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria")
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach ("Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565"); Modeste Mussorgsky ("A Night on Bald Mountain"); Franz Schubert ("Ave Maria"); Igor Stravinsky ("The Rite of Spring"); Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ("Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a"); Ludwig van Beethoven ("6th symphony in F, Op.68 'Pastorale'")
Art Direction: Kenneth Anderson, J. Gordon Legg, Lance Nolley, Herbert Ryman, Yale Gracey, Hugh Hennesy ("The Pastoral Symphony"); Curtiss D. Perkins, Al Zinnen, Robert Cormack, Arthur Byram, Bruce Bushman ("The Nutcracker Suite"); Tom Codrick, Charles Philippi, Zack Schwartz ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"); Robert Cormack ("Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"); Harold Doughty, Ernest Nordli, Kendall O'Connor ("Dance of the Hours"); John Hubley, Dick Kelsey, McLaren Stewart ("Rite of Spring"); Kay Nielsen, Charles Payzant, Thor Putnam, Terrell Stapp ("Night on Bald Mountain" / "Ave Maria")
Sound: William E. Garity, J. N. A. Hawkins, C. O. Slyfield
Choreography: Jules Engel
Movement Model: Marge Champion
Musical Director: Edward H. Plumb
Choral Director: Charles Henderson ("Night on Bald Mountain" / "Ave Maria")
Soloist: Julietta Novis ("Ave Maria")
Narrator: Deems Taylor

Musical Program:
"Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565" (Johann Sebastian Bach)
"A Night on Bald Mountain" (Modeste Mussorgsky)
"Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert)
"The Rite of Spring" (Igor Stravinsky)
"Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a" (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
"6th symphony in F, Op.68 'Pastorale'" (Ludwig van Beethoven)