Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. 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.
Fantasia (1940)
Directed by James Algar / Samuel Armstrong / Ben Sharpsteen / Bill Roberts / David Hand / Ford Beebe Jr. / Hamilton Luske / Jim Handley / Norman Ferguson / Paul Satterfield / T. Hee / Wilfred Jackson
Description by Wikipedia
Movie Info
Official Site
Budget
$2,280,000
Box Office
$76,411,819
Themes
Tags
Art/Music, Classical Music, Cult, Live Action And Animation, Live-Action Animated Film, Mind-Bending/Experimental, Orchestra, Puppetoon Animation, Supernatural/Monsters, Yannik Nezet-seguin
Attributes
Subject: music
Part of Collection
Alternate Titles
Bach to Stravinsky and Bach
US
Fantajia
JP
Fantasia
AR, AU, BE, BR, CA, DK, FI, FR, DE, GR, IT, NO, PE, PT, RO, SE, TR, GB, US
Fantasía
MX, ES, UY
Fantázia
HU
Fantazija
HR, LT, RS
Fantaziya
AZ
Fantazja
PL
Highbrowski by Stokowski
US
The Concert Feature
US
The Musical Feature
, US
Walt Disney's Fantasia
US
Фантазія
UA
Фантазија
RS
Фантазия
BG, RU
פנטזיה
IL
ファンタジア
JP
幻想曲
TW