Covering the creation and legacy of Walt Disney’s high art failure, Fantasia, discussing how this classical symphony of art came to be, the groundbreaking work that went into making it, what went wrong with its initial release, how this initial failure slowly turned into a success, and what happened to its belated continuation – Fantasia 2000.
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“Walt Disney’s Fantasia” by John Culhane, 1999
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_dr_sm
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-26-tv-552-story.html
https://archive.org/details/waltdisneysfanta00culh
https://houstonsymphony.org/disney-fantasia/
https://www.slashfilm.com/569893/fantasia-2000-revisited/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120910/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_dr_sm
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Where would you rank Fantasia in the history of Disney animation?
Disney & Dali's Destino deserves it's own analysis.
In today's day, I could very easily see Fantasia 3 as not a movie, but a collection of shorts, sorta like Love Death and Robots but more than 5% of the shorts will actually be good.
I’ll never forget seeing Chernabog in Kingdom Hearts when I was younger and wondering where the hell HE was from. I then discovered both Fantasia and 2000 which had come out a few years prior and it was like slipping into a secret Disney world nobody ever talked about.
16:25 ah yes, fantasound my favourite with pepsivision and spritacting.
Failure? Tons of people love it still. Dafuck are you talking about.
I always loved when my national tv channel streamed Fantasia, it's a great part of my childhood and my motivation to create art
I wondered why they didn't make a Fantasia 3 instead of Wish for their 100 year Anniversary/farewell to Mickey. But seeing that Fantasia didn't go over that well makes a little more sense…
Dance of the Hours is so underrated among all the fantasía segments. It’s silly and fun without being too much
Also I saw the Chicago Symphony Orchestra present Fantasia last fall. They did a blend of pieces from both films with live music from the orchestra with the animation pieces displayed on a big screen in the orchestra hall. It looks like it’s a new version of the road show as the production has been touring for a few years. Decades later it’s fulfilling its destiny as a masterpiece.
Fantasia feels boring and pretentious .
I watched this constantly as a child. It was my introduction to classical music and animation. Still into both today. Not the best quality recordings, but I've seen all this music live now because I had this VHS tape to start.
The whale segment always reminded me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I mostly associate this music with Trans Siberian Orchestra
I feel like for all the talk of how Wish is supposed to be the "origin story" for Disney, I always felt like Fantasia covered that territory pretty well… Rite of Spring was evolution and the development of the species, Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria was the spiritual battle between good and evil in its most primal form, Pastoral Symphony showed the pagan Mythology, and Sorcerer's Apprentice was like the literal beginning of the "magic." I should note that's not set in stone that's just how I personally viewed it canonically and it always seemed to make sense…
I feel like he completely doesn't understand the appeal of Fantasia 2000 when he calls the best segment the worst and the average segment the best
I remember as a kid seeing Fantastia 2000 at a threatre where they had really good surround sound so you could hear donald in the theatre. The firebird one freaked me out though.
Those hippos can get it tbh
Yall can @ me.
when I was a kid I used to always stop the movie as soon as Ave Maria was starting. I didn't seem to like that section.
Dick Humor lol
Yohan Wolfgang VonGirth haha
When I was a senior in high school I was taking AP art and we did a Saturday class to work on our portfolios. Our teacher put on Fantasia figuring it would be good background music and some inspiring art. We were all so mesmerized that we weren’t working on our art and she had to turn it off
I saw Fantasia as a child and I loved it!! Both films are amazing and it’s wonderful to see artistic endeavors at work! My two favorites: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in the first film and the George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” piece in the second.
I wish Walt had gone forward with his original plan of an ongoing Fantasia series
WELL I GESS WOKE DISNEY RELEESED ANUTHER FLOP HEU HEH HEH. .. IM SURE THIS ONES GONNA DO BAD IN THEETERS, MITE AS WELL JUST PUDDIT ON DIDNEE PLUST RIGHT DAMG NOW… . BLAKWORSHING HEH WIN WILL THA MSHEU LURN???
Modern Disney re-mastered the soundtrack and dubbed the wonderful Deem Taylor narration with a soulless corporate voice actor. I wish I could find a DVD with good ol' Deems Taylor.
The "Fantasia 2000" disaster was just sad. Along with Pocahontas it ended the Disney Renaissance that began with the little Mermaid just 10 years earlier. The director got kicked out of the company for it, bad it wasn't all his fault. Disney has never really regained its stride since.
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Failure? 🙄