Fantasia (1940)
Country: US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Cast: animated
Synopsis:
A concert of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski and set to animation by Disney Studios. Highlights include Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Mickey Mouse, and a Rite of Spring set across geological eras.
Review:
How you take this film will depend very much on your love of classical music (which is not treated with reverence) and your taste in schmaltzy animation. Some of the music, the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony, for example, falls victim to both tendencies, with musical accents exaggerated or ignored depending on whether they fit the conception, and a prettified view of Arcadia with quarterback centaurs pursuing nippleless nymphs. However, setting aside the fact that it is a Disney film of this period, it did represent a both a huge advance in animation in terms of what it could be made to do, and an introduction of a sound world to the widest audience, who might otherwise have remained in ignorance.
Country: US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Cast: animated
Synopsis:
A concert of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski and set to animation by Disney Studios. Highlights include Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Mickey Mouse, and a Rite of Spring set across geological eras.
Review:
How you take this film will depend very much on your love of classical music (which is not treated with reverence) and your taste in schmaltzy animation. Some of the music, the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony, for example, falls victim to both tendencies, with musical accents exaggerated or ignored depending on whether they fit the conception, and a prettified view of Arcadia with quarterback centaurs pursuing nippleless nymphs. However, setting aside the fact that it is a Disney film of this period, it did represent a both a huge advance in animation in terms of what it could be made to do, and an introduction of a sound world to the widest audience, who might otherwise have remained in ignorance.
Country: US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Cast: animated
Synopsis:
A concert of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski and set to animation by Disney Studios. Highlights include Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Mickey Mouse, and a Rite of Spring set across geological eras.
Review:
How you take this film will depend very much on your love of classical music (which is not treated with reverence) and your taste in schmaltzy animation. Some of the music, the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony, for example, falls victim to both tendencies, with musical accents exaggerated or ignored depending on whether they fit the conception, and a prettified view of Arcadia with quarterback centaurs pursuing nippleless nymphs. However, setting aside the fact that it is a Disney film of this period, it did represent a both a huge advance in animation in terms of what it could be made to do, and an introduction of a sound world to the widest audience, who might otherwise have remained in ignorance.