This listing is for Walt Disney Masterpiece Fantasia VHS Video Tape.
Actor: Walt Disney, Deems Taylor, Leopold Stokowski, Julietta Novis, Corey Burton
Director: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, James Algar, Ford Beebe Jr., Bill Roberts
Leading Role: Deems Taylorfv, Leopold Stokowski
Movie/TV Title: Fantasia
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
Language: English
UPC: 0717951132031
Genre: Animation & Anime
Fantasia' is a breathtaking visual experience that belongs in every movie collection. This VHS allows you and your family to get swept away in the magic and wonder of this one-of-a-kind movie experience. This Walt Disney Pictures classic from 1940 features eight distinct segments, full of brilliant animation and stunning classical music performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Most famously, 'Fantasia' features Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer's apprentice who starts to panic when his attempt at spells spins wildly out of control. Other segments include selections from the 'Nutcracker's Suite' as well as the creepy 'Night on Bald Mountains' about the devil Chernabog summoning evil spirits to dance throughout the graveyard. Decades after its debut, 'Fantasia' continues to be a stunning achievement in animation and music.
Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced and released by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. The third Disney animated feature film, it consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies who introduces each segment in live action. Disney settled on the film's concept in 1938 as work neared completion on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, originally an elaborate Silly Symphony cartoon designed as a comeback role for Mickey Mouse, who had declined in popularity. As production costs surpassed what the short could earn, Disney decided to include it in a feature-length film of multiple segments set to classical pieces with Stokowski and Taylor as collaborators. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound system developed by Disney and RCA that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in stereo and a precursor to surround sound. Fantasia was first released as a theatrical roadshow that was held in 13 cities across the U.S. between 1940 and 1941; the first began at the Broadway Theatre in New York City on November 13, 1940. While acclaimed by critics, it failed to make a profit owing to World War II's cutting off distribution to the European market, the film's high production costs, and the expense of building Fantasound equipment and leasing theatres for the roadshow presentations. Since 1942, the film has been reissued multiple times by RKO Radio Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution with its original footage and audio being deleted, modified, or restored in each version. When adjusted for inflation, Fantasia is the 23rd highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. The Fantasia franchise has grown to include video games, Disneyland attractions, and a live concert series. A sequel, Fantasia 2000, co-produced by Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney, was released in 1999. Fantasia has grown in reputation over the years and is now widely acclaimed as one of the greatest animated films of all time; in 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 58th greatest American film in their 100 Years...100 Movies and the fifth greatest animated film in their 10 Top 10 list. In 1990, Fantasia was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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