Fantasy 1940 Synopsis

Qualification: Fantasy

Direction: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Bill Roberts.

Artistic direction: Ken anderson

Production: Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen.

Script: Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer and Phil Dike.

Music: Stephen Csillag

Sound: William E. Garity, J.N.A. Hawkins and C.O. Slyfield

Editor: Bill Wilner (1990)

Photography: James Wong Howe and Maxwell Morgan.

Special effects: Dan MacManus, Joshua Meador, Gail Papineau, Leonard Pickley, Miles E. Pike, John F. Reed, Nigel De Brulier and Abra Grup.

Distribution: Leopold Stokowski (Director), Deems Taylor (Narrator), Julietta Novis (Ave Maria Soloist), Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse), James McDonald (Percussionist) and Paul J. Smith (Violinist).

Country: USA

Year: 1940

Gender: Musical Animation

Duration: 120 min, 124 min (restored roadshow version), 125 min (original release version), 80 min (shortened version).

Idiom: English

Companies: Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Productions.

With several directors at the helm, Fantasía (1940) is a classic of animated cinema, not only because of the incredible work done by its creators in terms of its animated content, but also because it was the first film with stereophonic sound known as "Fantasound" which made it possible for the soundtrack of This film, made by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stowkowski, with musical pieces by great composers, was so wonderful and unforgettable. It is a film, which means a great audiovisual experiment a little ahead of its time, the film is made up of different shorts linked to each other, divided into eight segments, among which stands out "The magician and the apprentice", with Mickey Mouse being the assistant of a magician who faces a small problem due to to the curiosity caused by the use of magic and the section based on "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinski where animations are presented explanations about the creation of the earth and the cosmos, using the elements of nature (flowers, water, fish, light, darkness, etc.) as protagonists. Being one of the most important animated films in the history of cinema, Fantasia (1940), at its premiere it was a complete box office failure, which is attributed the lack of appreciation that until then had in this gender.