Fantasia
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.
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author | Dick Huemer Joe Grant |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
director | Ben Sharpsteen Bill Roberts Ford Beebe Ford Beebe Jr. Hamilton Luske James Algar Jim Handley Norm Ferguson Paul Satterfield Samuel Armstrong T. Hee Wilfred Jackson |
events | music visualization |
genre | action animation fantasy |
musicBy | Amilcare Ponchielli Franz Schubert Igor Stravinsky Johann Sebastian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Paul Dukas Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
producer | Ben Sharpsteen Walt Disney |
productionCompany | Walt Disney Animation Studios |
publisher | RKO Radio Pictures |
recordedAt | The Annette Funicello Stage |
theme | animated anthology dance musical |