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Fantasia (125 min)
Synopsis: A groundbreaking compilation of eight classical music pieces visually interpreted by Disney animators, featuring Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra and introductions by Deems Taylor. “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” (Bach) is an abstract exploration of shapes and colors. An array of plants and creatures enchant in “The Nutcracker Suite” (Tchaikowsky). The most famous section features Mickey Mouse as an assistant to stern sorcerer Yen Sid in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Dukas). “The Rite of Spring” (Stravinski) depicts the emergence of life on Earth. In “The Pastoral Symphony” (Beethoven), centaurs and cupids frolic as Greek gods look on. “Dance of the Hours” (Ponchielli) features a ballet performed by the unlikeliest of animal ballerinas. A scary “Night on Bald Mountain” (Moussorgsky), introduces the demon Chernabog, who summons nighttime ghosts and ghouls. But all are banished when the morning church bells ring and a solemn procession of monks makes it way through the countryside in the tranquil “Ave Maria” sequence (Schubert).
Directed by Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norm Ferguson, and Wilfred Jackson.
Premiered on November 13, 1940, at the Broadway Theater in New York.
US Theatrical Reissues: January 6, 1942; September 1, 1946; February 7, 1956; February 20, 1963; December 17, 1969; April 15, 1977; April 2, 1982; February 8, 1985; and October 5, 1990.
US Home Media Releases: November 1, 1991 (VHS/LD); November 14, 2000 (DVD); November 30, 2010 (BR/DVD);
Trivia:
• Frames: 180,000
• Yen Sid (the sorcerer) is Disney spelled backwards.
• The film was presented in Fantasound, an early stereo system, devised at the Disney Studio, but which required theaters to be specially equipped. Because of the expense, the film originally opened in only 14 theaters.
• Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio were given special Academy Awards: “To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures.”
• A special Academy Award was given to Leopold Stokowski and his associates “for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music.”
• New interest in the film in the 1970s led to a new sound track in 1982, with the orchestra conducted by Irwin Kostal, narration by Hugh Douglas, and a recording in digital stereo, but its full-length restoration in 1990 brought back the original sound track, while trying to duplicate some of the effects of the Fantasound presentation.
• Corey Burton replaced Deems Taylor on the 2000 DVD.
• It took 60 years, but in line with Walt Disney’s plan to add new segments regularly to the film, Fantasia/2000 retained The Sorcerer’s Apprentice but added eight new sequences.
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Fantasia (125 min)
Synopsis: A groundbreaking compilation of eight classical music pieces visually interpreted by Disney animators, featuring Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra and introductions by Deems Taylor. “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” (Bach) is an abstract exploration of shapes and colors. An array of plants and creatures enchant in “The Nutcracker Suite” (Tchaikowsky). The most famous section features Mickey Mouse as an assistant to stern sorcerer Yen Sid in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Dukas). “The Rite of Spring” (Stravinski) depicts the emergence of life on Earth. In “The Pastoral Symphony” (Beethoven), centaurs and cupids frolic as Greek gods look on. “Dance of the Hours” (Ponchielli) features a ballet performed by the unlikeliest of animal ballerinas. A scary “Night on Bald Mountain” (Moussorgsky), introduces the demon Chernabog, who summons nighttime ghosts and ghouls. But all are banished when the morning church bells ring and a solemn procession of monks makes it way through the countryside in the tranquil “Ave Maria” sequence (Schubert).
Directed by Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norm Ferguson, and Wilfred Jackson.
Premiered on November 13, 1940, at the Broadway Theater in New York.
US Theatrical Reissues: January 6, 1942; September 1, 1946; February 7, 1956; February 20, 1963; December 17, 1969; April 15, 1977; April 2, 1982; February 8, 1985; and October 5, 1990.
US Home Media Releases: November 1, 1991 (VHS/LD); November 14, 2000 (DVD); November 30, 2010 (BR/DVD);
Trivia:
• Frames: 180,000
• Yen Sid (the sorcerer) is Disney spelled backwards.
• The film was presented in Fantasound, an early stereo system, devised at the Disney Studio, but which required theaters to be specially equipped. Because of the expense, the film originally opened in only 14 theaters.
• Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio were given special Academy Awards: “To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures.”
• A special Academy Award was given to Leopold Stokowski and his associates “for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music.”
• New interest in the film in the 1970s led to a new sound track in 1982, with the orchestra conducted by Irwin Kostal, narration by Hugh Douglas, and a recording in digital stereo, but its full-length restoration in 1990 brought back the original sound track, while trying to duplicate some of the effects of the Fantasound presentation.
• Corey Burton replaced Deems Taylor on the 2000 DVD.
• It took 60 years, but in line with Walt Disney’s plan to add new segments regularly to the film, Fantasia/2000 retained The Sorcerer’s Apprentice but added eight new sequences.
The Copyright Laws of the United States recognizes a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
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Charlotte’s Web (94 min)
Synopsis: Early one morning, Fern Arable prevents her father John from slaughtering a piglet as the runt of the litter. John allows Fern to raise it as a pet, which Fern lovingly names Wilbur. Six weeks later, Wilbur is sold down the street to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. At Homers farm, Wilbur yearns for companionship. Horrified at the discovery that he will be slaughtered, Wilbur reduces himself to tears until a mysterious voice tells him to chin up and waits until morning to reveal herself to him. The following morning, she reveals herself to be a spider named Charlotte A. Cavatica, living on a web on a corner of Homers barn overlooking Wilburs pig pen. She tells him that she will come up with a plan guaranteed to spare his life. A few days later, Homers farmhand, Lurvy, sees the words “SOME PIG” spun within Charlottes web. The incident attracts publicity among Homers neighbors who deem the praise to be a miracle. Following a series of messages spun in Charlotte’s web, Homer decides to enter Wilbur in the county fair for the summer. Wilbur is accompanied by Charlotte and a hungry rat named Templeton. Although Wilbur does not win first place, the reception Wilbur receives at the fair convinces Zuckerman to let live Wilbur live to a ripe old age. Exhausted from writing words and spinning an egg sac containing her unborn offspring, Charlotte tells Wilbur she will remain at the fair to die. Not willing to let her children be abandoned, Wilbur has Templeton retrieve her egg sac to take back to the farm, just before she dies. Once he returns to Homers farm, he guards the egg sac through the winter. The next spring, Charlottes 514 children are hatched, but leave the farm, causing Wilbur to become saddened to the point of wanting to run away. Just as he is about to do so, the ram points out that three of them did not fly away. Pleased at finding new friends, he names them Joy, Nellie, and Aranea, but as much as he loves them, they will never replace the memory of Charlotte.
Cast: Henry Gibson (Wilbur); Debbie Reynolds (Charlotte); Paul Lynde (Templeton); Agnes Moorehead (The Goose); Don Messick (Jeffrey); Herb Vigran (Lurvy); Pamelyn Ferdin (Fern Arable); Martha Scott (Mrs. Arable); Bob Holt (Homer Zuckerman); John Stephenson (John Arable); Danny Bonaduce (Avery Arable); William B. White (Henry Fussy); Dave Madden (The Ram); Joan Gerber (Edith Zuckerman); Rex Allen (narrator)
Songs: “There Must Be Something More,” “I Can Talk!” “Chin Up!” “We’ve Got Lots in Common,” “Deep in the Dark,” “Charlotte’s Web,” “Mother Earth and Father Time,” “A Veritable Smorgasbord,” “Zuckerman’s Famous Pig,” “Charlotte’s Farewell”
Directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto
US Theatrical Release Date: March 1, 1973
US Home Media Release Dates: 1979 (VHS); 1988 (VHS); 1993 (VHS); 1996 (VHS); June 19, 2001 (DVD); 2006 (DVD);
Trivia:
• Original score by Irwin Kostal; original songs by Richard and Robert Sherman
• Debbie Reynolds volunteered to perform the voice of Charlotte the spider for no salary, because of her love for the E.B. White book the movie is based on.
• The first of only three theatrical feature films that Hanna-Barbera produced not related to its television programs (the other two are Heidis Song (1982) and Once Upon a Forest (1993).)
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