Fantasia

Titolo originale: Fantasia
Regia: Wilfred Jackson | Bill Roberts | Paul Satterfield | Samuel Armstrong | Jim Handley | T. Hee | Hamilton Luske | Ben Sharpsteen | James Algar | Norman Ferguson | David Hand | Ford Beebe Jr. |
Anno: 1940
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Animazione Famiglia Fantasy
Tag: classical music | cartoon | villain | orchestra | musical | cartoon mouse | wizard | live action and animation | amused | joyful |
Cast: Deems Taylor | Walt Disney | Julietta Novis | Leopold Stokowski |

Produzione Walt Disney con la supervisione di Ben Sharpsteen e la partecipazione di Leopold Stokowski e della Philadelphia Orchestra. Zibaldone musicale formato da: Toccata e fuga in re min. di Bach; suite da Lo schiaccianoci di P.I. Čiaÿkovskij; L'apprendista stregone di P. Dukas; La sagra della primavera di I. Stravinskij; la sinfonia Pastorale di Beethoven; La danza delle ore di A. Ponchielli; Una notte sul Monte Calvo di M. Musorgskij; Ave Maria di Schubert.

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screening of the film itself was inordinately difficult. The film holds the distinction of being the [...] D
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First appearance of Mickey Mouse in a Disney animated feature film. D
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Leopold Stokowski and his associates won a Certificate of Merit "Special Award" "for their unique ac [...] D
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"The Rite of Spring" segment was actually shown in many schools for years as a way of educating chil [...] D
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A UCLA athlete provided visual live action reference for Mickey Mouse running around trying to stop [...] D
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Animator John Hench was assigned to work on the "Dance of the Hours" segment, but resisted as he kne [...] D
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Disney's third animated feature. D
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The Sweeper Blotlings in the 2010 video game "Epic Mickey: La Leggendaria Sfida di Topolino (2010)" [...] D
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Igor Stravinsky visited the Disney Studios during production and was shown sketches of the segment t [...] D
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This film was selected into the National Film Registry in 1990 for being "culturally, historically, [...] D
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Igor Stravinsky was none to happy with the liberties Leopold Stokowski took with the "Rite of Spring [...] D
A segment featuring Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" was animated and intended as part of the origin [...] D
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The studio filmed professional dancers Joyce Coles and Marjorie Belcher wearing ballet skirts that r [...] D
This marks the first time where two films in the Disney animated classics lineup have been theatrica [...] D
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Premiered at the Broadway Theatre at 1681 Broadway at 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019. D
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This is Steven Spielberg and David O. Selznick's favorite animated motion picture of all time. D
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Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. D
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