Fantasia was first released by Walt Disney in 1940. It was the first film of its kind and used many groundbreaking techniques for the cartooning world. The movie itself is an animated cartoon that puts visual aspects along with eight classical songs and seems to magically come to life with all sorts of characters and storylines. The conceptual framework of the individual pieces embraces such areas as prehistoric times, the four seasons, nature, hell/heaven, the themes of light vs. darkness and chaos vs. order, dancing animals, classical mythology, and legend.
This Disney production was an ambitious experiment to try to popularize classical music, especially by accompanying it with animation. Originally, the film was to consist of only "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment, but it was expanded to include the full anthology of shorts. And it was slightly controversial for its depiction of bare-breasted centaurettes in the Pastoral Symphony segment and other stereotypical racial......
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