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Fantasia - [DVD] [1940]

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Eisner approached Leonard Bernstein with the same idea, but while he seemed enthusiastic, Bernstein died before production began.

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Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote a positive review of the film, citing Pines of Rome as "a superb, uplifting flight of the spirit" and Piano Concerto No. The idea originated from animator Joe Grant, one of the two story directors on Fantasia who loved the ostriches in Dance of the Hours.An early concept for The Rite of Spring was to extend the story to the age of mammals and the first humans and the discovery of fire and man's triumph. The review ends with a criticism of the inadequate quality of The Sorcerer's Apprentice on the IMAX screen. As dawn breaks over a meadow, during the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"; tiny fairies sprinkle drops of dew on every flower and stern. Using the remaining Fantasound system at the studio, a three-track stereo copy was transferred across telephone wires onto the magnetic film at an RCA facility in Hollywood. He explained that because CGI was in its infancy during development, the first third of the segment was hand drawn using pencil to get a feel of how the whales would move.

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After either the intermission (or The Rite of Spring in the 1990 version as well as the UK VHS release), a "jam session" in the orchestra is started by a bassist playing a jazzed-up version of a theme from the third movement of the Pastoral Symphony, which the clarinetist and other instruments take up.Baby Ballet" [ ] "Our country's great natural resources of 'bottomless goo-appeal' have never been properly exploited. Upon receiving the rights to use the music by the end of July 1937, Disney considered using a well-known conductor to record the music for added prestige. He claims Rhapsody in Blue is "guilty of some dubious racial and sexual caricaturing", but hailed the film's IMAX presentation as "a breathtaking spectacle".

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The Fantasia soundtrack album contains all of the musical selections but none of the commentary from the film. Only selected parts of the animation were stretched, while all live action scenes remained unchanged.The pair further thought of presenting the film with an on-screen host to introduce each number in the program. Disney and Ernst decided to go with Hunt's idea; Hunt avoided producing an entirely abstract work because "you can get something abstract on every computer screen" with ease. The camera slowly follows them as they go through the forest and ruins of a cathedral to the sounds of Ave Maria. The soundtrack was ultimately released as a three-record LP set in sixteen countries by Disneyland Records in 1957 under the catalog number WDX-101. He was also concerned about the reception from classical music enthusiasts who would criticize Disney for venturing too far from the composer's intent.

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His appearance went through numerous changes, partly due to the lack of reference material available to the team.The Stokowski soundtrack was digitally remastered using the 1955 magnetic soundtrack, with an estimated three thousand pops and hisses being removed in the process. The animation segues back into the live-action footage of Stokowski as the piece concludes, setting the precedent for the rest of the musical numbers.

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