Fantasia (movie)
Fantasia is the third animated movie produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was first released on February 29, 1940. It was originally released by itself instead of RKO Pictures, which was the distributor of Disney from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, until Peter Pan.
| Fantasia | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Leopold Stokowski Deems Taylor The Philadelphia Orchestra Walt Disney (voice) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
Release date | February 29, 1940 |
Running time | 124 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,280,000 (est.) |
| Box office | $76,408,097 |
Fantasia contains eight classical music pieces. One of them is from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. It tells the story of life on Earth until the extinction of the dinosaurs. Another famous work that appears in the movie is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ. One segment, "The Pastoral Symphony", which was themed around Greek mythology, was changed to get rid of centaurs who were thought to be racist stereotypes of Black people.
A sequel to this movie, Fantasia 2000, was released in 1999.
Other websitesEdit
- Fantasia on IMDb
- Fantasia at AllMovie
- Fantasia at AllMovie
- Fantasia at Rotten Tomatoes
- Fantasia at Box Office Mojo
- Fantasia at the Big Cartoon DataBase
