Art Student Watches *FANTASIA* for the FIRST TIME || Movie Reaction
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- There is so much art in this movie I don't even know what to say
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They did have an intermission back when it was originally released. The film was meant to evoke the feeling of being in a concert hall not just with the classical music being matched with the animation but also the way the whole film was structured.
Besides in those days you'd usually get two intermissions when you went to the movies - first one after the newsreel, the cartoon, and the short film, and the second one halfway through the movie.
Heck
Even setting a machine where it create an illusion of sound travelling around the theater .
So you can say , the surround sound system was all thanks to disney .
Intermissions are nice. I wish we still had that for long movies like Titanic and End Game. Would have been nice.
@@agenttheater5 So you could buy an ice cream.
@@m.syauqiabdurahman2798 One of the problems with the film's b.o. was due to few theaters being equipped for "Fantasound" when the film was released.
Disney's masterpiece. One of the greatest movies ever made.
Fun fact: Chernabog (the Devil-like demon) was originally posed by Bela Lugosi, the guy who played Dracula, but head animator of the segment Bill Tytla (who animated Stromboli in Pinocchio and the title character of Dumbo) wasn't happy with his movements, so he asked Disney director Wilfred Jackson to pose for him shirtless and used those for Chernabog.
The “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence is easily my favorite. Batman Returns is also my favorite Batman movie so it all checks out. As for the offensive parts, it’s interesting to note the different philosophies Disney has as opposed to Warner Bros on how to address it.
I think Disney is correct. Acknowledge it but don't censor it. This is still someone's art.
Small shout out to the late, great and powerful Leopold Stokowski, who was famous for never bothering with a baton when he conducted. And he is also responsible for the best recording of the Nutcracker I have ever heard in my life.
I love watching fantasia, its like having a good dream while being awake
It goes without saying that this is Walt Disney's masterpiece in every sense of the word. I love each and every segment of Fantastia. Though if I had to choose my favorite, it would easily be A Night On Bald Mountain & Ave Maria. They go so well hand in hand with one another. It's easily one of the most powerful, emotional and just all around perfect things ever made.
Edit: The reason I feel like it just ends the way it does is bc they knew how powerful this was and when it originally came out, it got a standing ovation. Keep in mind that this film came out just at the start of WWll
I have heard from people who worked at movie theaters that it isn't Chernobog, the devil, that scares the little kids. It's the dinosaurs, especially during the fight sequence.
Weirdly enough, I wasn’t scared of the dinosaurs as a little kid… I was scared of the dinosaurs segment as a teenager (because of the whole “end of the world thing) 😅
I'm surprised you didn't enjoy "The dance of the hours", it's one of my favorite segments, I like the hippo and crocodile's interactions. I feel like the whole joke of the segment is that they set it up as one of the most famous ballet songs and get you ready and pumped for another epic piece only for them to reveal that all the performers are silly looking animals who have to awkwardly get around their strange shapes in order to preform the proper movements. I guess it's neat to see just how different it, and by extension every other segment, is compared to the rest.
Oh that does make sense! I guess I was in the mood for the more serious segments, but I can see how it would be super fun to watch. And it still has very impressive animation!
Nya, exactly. The intention of this segment, in addition to being fun, was always to make fun of the snobbery that existed at the time regarding ballet. In fact, plans for Fantasia sequels that were never made (until Fantasia 2000, of course) included new ballet parodies, most prominently one starring babies and storks.
PS: Although Fantasia 3 AKA "Fantasia 2006" has never existed as such, the segments that compose it up do exist and were released separately: One by one (Freedom song by Lebo M.), The little matchgirl (String Quartet No 2 in D Major by Alexander Borodin), Destino (Destino by Armando Domínguez and Dora Luz) and Lorenzo (Bordoneo y 900 by Juan José Mosalini).
I like that part it was interesting and pretty cool.
@@tomokokuroki8189 Actually Destinó was a animated collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali that never finished till Roy finished the animated short in 2003.
Animator Bill Tylra was the animator behind most of the Chernabog animation (the "devil" in the BALD MOUNTAIN short). His next assignment: doing the main animation for the character Dumbo (QUITE a range)
10:54 "....that he started practicing some of the boss's best magic tricks.....before he'd learned to control them". That line always scared me a little or at least made me feel wary. The actual sorcerer coming back was nearly scary to me but at the same time was such a relief, seeing how easily (yet how powerfully) he was able to end the nightmare.
An ostrich nearly killed Johnny Cash-He had one on his ranch and it tore his stomach open with its large toe claw! So yeah, ostriches can be dangerous!
As someone who grew up loving and rewatching the hell out of this movie, I have been having a blast watching your reaction 🤣
"I've watched Land Before Time plenty of times. I know everything about dinosaurs"
Immediately I thought about the "I'm a bit of a scientist myself" meme 🤣
My mom told me this was my favorite movie growing up oddly enough. I would watch it almost everyday as a little kid.
Little fun fact back in the early 1900s before the asteroid theory supposedly scientists believed the dinosaurs died out thanks to a word wide drought
I recomend watching Ralph Bakshi animations he was a pioneer in adult animation, and he has a very unique stile of animation.
.... Who?
@@AdamFishkin Ralph Bakshi.
Thank you.
@@AdamFishkin For what? He told you the name twice. Did you not catch it the first time lol?
There was a misspelling. He corrected it afterward.
The “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence made me a goth kid hahahaha! I also loved the Pegasus & centaur section as a kid, and my old VHS tape did not have the racist caricature in it so I guess it was called out before then. As for the zebra centaurs, I always assumed they were meant to be African centaurs since Zebras are from Africa… my kid mind didn’t put together the decision to include them as racist but I can see that now as an adult. It doesn’t make sense to include them as African representation if it’s supposed to be Ancient Greece so yes, the animators unfortunately thought servant = Black women… sigh 😞
That's a very good point...
An African centaur being inspired by African animals makes sense in the right setting but yeah its greece 😂 idk why I never noticed that
Originally, the centaurettes did not have flower bras. But...Disney.
Honestly it’s nice to get a reaction video about Fantasia from someone who can appreciate it for the art piece that it is. I understand if you’re a standard movie viewer you might not be as grabbed by this film, but when you watch the movie as a work of art you can definitely enjoy this film more. So I really appreciate your reactions here
When they rereleased this movie when l was a kid, the in-between parts were briefer and more to the point. Also, it ended with the orchestra playing "Zippety do dah" (You know, from "Song of the South".) That may be the reason this version ends so abruptly.
Night on Bald Mountain terrified me as a child. I used to hide under the couch cushions when that part came on.
Definitely recommend Fantasia 2000. :) If you like this sort of thing, similar movies on Disney+ are Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros (both very short and with similar themes, you might want to watch them together) and Melody Time. Make Mine Music is also similar but it's not on Disney+ and I've had a hell of a time trying to find a way to watch it. The DVD I ordered was region-locked lol.
Where did you order the DVD from?
@@areloTET Amazon
Funfact:Every palaeontologists should know this. The dinosaurs dying from a drought was a theory in 1940s until 1980s the theory was an asteroid or a meteor.
Glad you are doing some of the older films. Though they may not date well, there is still a lot to be gained by studying how they worked out the problems of animation.
I think they date beautifully.
Fun facts(all connected to rite of spring)
1st:depiction of drought killing the dinosaurs was more frequent back then before theory about asteroids and meteors that came in the 80s
2nd:don bluth was so fascinated that he wanted to make his own version of this segment but first off he had plan of making bambi but as dinosaur version, and he probably remembered this scene. Maybe thats why sharptooth looks more infamous than one we saw here. And uniting bambi and this made land before time
3dh:Walt wanted to make this scene abt evolution of humans but for some reasons they changed that to dinosaurs
4th:some dinosaurs didnt lived in exact period, like stegosaurus lived in late jurrasic, along with brontosaurus, while trex lived in late cretateous along with triceratops, and for dimentrodons they lived WAY BACK in paleozoic. Beacuse people tough they are also dinosaurs, but they are actualy related to mammals, including us
5th:everyone tough trex we saw was allosaurus or gigantosaurus or acrocanthosaurus. Actualy it was indeed trex. The reason why this one had three instead of two is beacuse fantasia was made in time when trex was still being discovered. Then later it was found out trex had 2
The dinosaur scene always freaked me out! Meanwhile I love dinosaurs, but the scenery is just so intense
I loved the freaky feeling the dinosaur part gave me as a kid. It has so much raw violence. It's just nature at its most vicious and chaotic.
"Fantasia" was the movie that taught me the value of seeing movies in the theater (rather than watching at home on a television). 'Fantasia" was re-released in theaters at least two or three times when I was growing up (in the 70's and 80's). So, I had seen (and loved) it a few times. Around the early 80's you started to be able to rent movies on VHS to watch at home. Let me tell you, 'Fantasia' on a 19" TV with lousy speakers is NOT the same movie at all. I don't just mean it's not as good, I mean it's a completely different experience. At least nowadays we've got larger high definition TV's and decent stereo or surround speakers. But still something like 'Fantasia' is best seen in a theater (I wish they'd re-release it to theaters again!)
Definitely do Fantasia 2000 if you get the chance. It’s one of my favorite movies. Heavy on the art and music… a bit less abstract than a few of the stories in this one.
"I thought that was the last sequence in this!"
Me: Just wait til you to get that one...
"These are dinosaurs from the 40s; they may not be entirely accurate"
Actually, it predicted four-winged glider=birds not found until the 21st century. Although the stegosaurus fighting the T rex was a bit of a reach (there is more time between T rex and stegosaurus than there is between T rex and us).
One of my favourite moments of classical music, and favourite moments in cinema: the pegasus mare flying against the storm to rescue her foal; makes the hair stand on the back of my neck.
I hope you went on to watch Fantasia 2000, because I think (hope!) you would enjoy it.
2:53 Actually, yes, you *should* be thinking about that. They worked very hard on making that lighting important.
24:32 You'd probably have a panic attack watching Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin.
Anywhere there was something weird happening in The Pastoral Symphony, such as the repeated shot of the yellow centauress, the moving foreground, and the close-up of the centauress filing her nails, is where they edited around Sunflower, the black caricature centauress. She was only present during the segment of the centaurs preening and pairing up.
I would like it if you did a movie reaction to" Pocahontas" It's colors and shapes are just beautiful.
I’ve watched this movie many times since I was a baby, but after years of not watching this film (our VCR broke and we didn’t have a DVD) I decided to rewatch it as a teenager on Netflix, and I didn’t expect the Ave Maria scene to hit me so hard that it makes me cry almost every time!
Nowadays, whenever I feel sad and need to cry, I play that scene to help me let out my tears and embrace this powerful feeling of hope within the sunrise. It’s just so beautiful 🥲
Be glad you never took music theory. I had to take it for an art credit (because apparently my Drama class didn’t count( and it was the WORST class I have ever taken! I’ve never seen this movie either, but I am excited to watch it, I’ve watched the Mother Nature clip a bunch of times. The art is fantastic!
14:01 That guy clearing the path of water, was Yen Sid. Yen Sid is the sorcerer who teaches Mickey the magic. If you noticed: Yen Sid is Disney spelled backwards
This is the day were Master Yensid train his apprentice Mickey Mouse to be a Keyblade Master.
@@johnsantos507 Kingdom Hearts!😀
@@joshualowe959 Yep. Yensid was once a Keyblade master.
Something that would be fun to see your reaction to would be "Hercules and Xena: Battle for Mount Olympus". It's fun to try to figure out what was mistakes and budget limitations, and what was intentional choice by the filmmakers lol. I find it fun and interestingly stylized anyway.
"Fantasia" is my favorite Disney movie ever, especially the final segment; I always watch it around Halloween. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I really love this movie, so thanks for reacting to it! I love the perspective you bring as an illustration major reacting to these old Disney movies which 1) used hand drawn illustrations and 2) were experimenting with animation. I’m glad someone else enjoys the art as well!!
About Ave Maria following Night on Bald Mountain: I love the contrast of a peaceful song with simple yet pleasant imagery following such an intense and dark piece. It shows how even a little good, no matter how simple or quiet, can cast evil out of your life. Maybe I’m naive, but I think that message of hope is beautiful.
The host of the Fantasia program, Deems Taylor, that’s actually not his voice. It was redubbed by Corey Burton back in 2000. The only place you can hear Taylor’s original voice is on the film’s sole VHS release from 1991.
The great thing about Fantasia is that it could never be made today. "It's a movie, that consists of hand drawn imaginations set to classical music!" Any modern studio would turn that down immediately. This was still a time where animation wasn't just for kids.
It's always such fun sharing the experience of a more free-form film like "Fantasia", although to me the first half is stronger than the second. You can tell that by 1940 the animators had rocketed miles above what they were capable of on "Snow White" just three years earlier. Art Babbitt (the guy who animated the thistles doing the Russian dance) used to host anatomy-study sessions for his coworkers to keep polishing their craft. Unfortunately he clashed with Walt over the condescending way animators were treated, and six months after "Fantasia" premiered, Babbitt led a staff strike which (because of Walt's anger) cost him his job.
Woolie Reitherman (the guy who animated the stegosaurus/t-rex fight) gained a reputation from that for action scenes. After he directed the "Sleeping Beauty" scene where Philip fights the dragon, Walt decided to hand him command of the entire animation department from the 60s onward. The irony is that the 60s/70s era at Disney was known for very cheap animation standards.
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Getting offended on people's behalf is pointless and rude when the people themselves are fine of fifty-fifty about it
When Disney did animation. The artists would study actual people, in order to study their movement.
Literally found you today and loving your reactions/breakdowns. I'm not sure if you're taking suggestions, but I'd like to recommend the movies "Balto" and "Cat's Don't Dance" if they aren't already on your list.
Besides nostalgia, I think you you would love the background work and the design of the villain in "Balto".
"Cat's Don't Dance" also have some nice designs and sort of underrated.
Fabulous James Horner score for Balto.
I can't believe this is your first time! I watched this constantly starting as a 3 year old or less. Absolute artistic masterpiece. And meh, the racist caricature wasn't that bad. I thought it was a cute character as a kid instead of thinking about race. I don't think you should change original art imho. There were some "indecent scenes" as well, which is why there was a repeating shot or two. Again why original art should not be messed with. History should be left as is and not censored.
They censored Da Vinci's original work, painting over it. Not cool. Also, during the Victorian era, many paintings were painted over to make things more pretty. Also not cool, relatable to censorship. Main point: censorship is bad. What's next, forget about Hitler because it offends? It's important to know rather than rewrite. /end rant.
As a side note, my favorite parts were space/creation of the earth/dinosaurs, and bald mountain. The fairy stuff in the beginning was really good too.
I completely agree, art and history should be remembered not changed, censorship has taken away so much from history such as Savonarola’s bonfire in the renaissance and so much more, if something was made in the 40s people should just be historically aware instead of censoring work to make it more palatable for modern times, they come from a different world and that should be respected
They made Asian mushrooms.... look Asian..... nothing racist about that you absolute clowns. IN fact it's THE OPPOSTE of racist, they are paying homage by depicting them in a way that represents the Culture they drew inspiration from
Your admission that you don't know anything about music is a damming indictment of our education system in the late 90s through all the 2000s and 2020s. Music appreciation was taught to every student in my school from first grade through eighth grade. The music teacher demonstrated her violin to my class and I was hooked! I read all I could about music and started taking voice lessons a good friend taught me the guitar. Today's schools, and probably yours barely even mention music much less teach it. Very sad!
“Centaurette”
Yeah, as a kid I thought ‘I’ll let it slide’, but now as an adult, I hear that and think, that’s not a real word!
"He's murdering him." Not really, it's still a regular, lifeless broom that was just animated with magic. It wasn't brought to life.
From an art standpoint, definitely Bambi. For one thing, there was a single artist behind much of the design: Tyrus Wong. Wong lived to be 102. There is a fine documentary film about his life that occasionally shows on PBS.
Oh...I see you've already reacted to it.
the repeated animation and strange out of place bush that moves with the camera were to cover up some really blatant racist caricatures in the centaur sequence
“No Nutcracker?! Then what’s the point?!”
Well, to be fair, the trade the nutcracker for a cute story about the changing of the seasons. 🌱☀️🍂❄️
I watched some of this video a long time ago, but there's been one part that's stayed in my head rent-free and I need to address it. At 6:14, you actually had to look up on google what your appropriate thoughts and emotions should be. You were confronted by imagery that probably wouldn't fly in today's media, and rather than giving it an honest appraisal, _you needed to consult with party dogma to be told what to think and how to think._ This often creeps in my head multiple times a week; when I'm microwaving food, when I'm pumping gas, when I'm lathering up the loofah: "This young lady actually googled what her reaction needed to be."
Respectfully, I'm not trying to bait you, or trigger you, or build a trap to snare you with your own words, or politicize this, or turn the comments section into a shit-show; I'm so sick of all those. I'm just waving my hand from a crowd in an auditorium and saying politely, "If you're going to let others do your thinking for you, be careful who you hire for the job."
She's great, but noticed this immediately as well.
It's the generation difference is all. Pretty much the various culture/teaching styles made form before your eyes.
The fact she has trained and researched knowledge pertaining to her craft for some of the context is actually quite impressive compared to her peers.
But yep...that's the deal.
They are a LITERAL cult. This is how Cult mentality works.
It's really sad. And this particular cult destroys everything that is beuatiful.... even art isn't off limits
I found this video hard to watch for the same reason you cite. But 6:14 isn't the only place where her social conditioning visibly kicks in. What makes it so repulsive is the Pavlovian and predictable nature of her responses. Someone should be paying royalties to the ghost of George Orwell, and I'm not just being glib - this real-life illustration of his allegories is genuinely upsetting.
9:05 So mushrooms imitating traditional Chinese garb is RACIST, but thistles and tulips in the form of Russian, i.e. European, folk costumes are perfectly OK (as they should be). I do smell some racialism here, but it's not coming from where this girl rather smugly thinks it is...
@@paintedjaguar I must not have stuck around for that, but those are good observations. Quite the thorny issue, ho ho! At this point I'm beyond aggravated when the R-word gets busted out. Conversations get sidetracked and people hunker down as battlefield lines are drawn out. If we can't *not* see race, maybe we can just all move along without the need to observe it.
Great video as always! I love how passionate you are about the arts
Please react to Cinderella 1950
The animation is gorgeous especially the dress transformation
Just enjoy The Visuals, The Music is so you don't get bored, Besides The Original Title was The Concert Feature. Don't worry about The Music unless you Like it, The Main Focus is The Art, such as Lighting and other Visuals. A good film to cut your teeth on when it Comes to The Nutcracker is Nutcracker Fantasy (1979), And Follow it with The Nutcracker Prince (1990). Fred Moore Designed The Fairies and Centaurettes. The word you were looking for was Stamen (Stay Men), But you were close. The fish were like Arabian Women doing a Vale Dance. The Flowers are Thistles and Orchids. Yes Autumn and Winter ends The Nutcracker Suite. The Snowflakes are a Tutu, But you got the Idea. No, The Last sequence is Night on Bald Mountain followed by The Best version of Ave Maria put on screen. Originally they were gonna use Dopey from the 7 Dwarfs, But Settled on Mickey Mouse, because of the Disney Trademark. The Black and White was Intentional, It's because Mickey Mouse usually isn't Violent, Ant this was the first Time we see a Violent Mickey. The Sorcerer's Name is Yensid, Which is Disney Backwards, so you get 2 Disney's for the price of 1. Which one of you is Petrie, FYI Petrie was voiced by Will Ryan, The same guy that voiced The seahorse in The Little Mermaid (1989). Yeah but in "The Right of Spring" Segment You don't see it coming, So the death takes you by surprise. 3 Horn, and Long Neck are acceptable here. There are 14 films to The Land Before Time, I see you, Switching it up like that. And then Sharp Tooth Spoils The Party. Yes in theaters it's a 15 Minute Intermission, but for you it's more like 15 Seconds, and The Only thing you get for credits, because Deems Taylor as the MC tells you who worked on Fantasia. Yeah 40's Audiences were use to 1h to 1h 30m. Now audiences want Vertical 1m shorts, Why am I here? Because I break The Mold. The Pastoral is Pastel. This was the first time People saw Pegasus Flying. Black Colt: CANON BALL! Fantasia was rated G, Because of the Cartoons are for Kids mentality, But if it were today, Fantasia would be rated PG, or R. Sunflower is cut out of your version But The Centaurette using the Cattails as an Nail File has The Black Centaurette with Corn Rolls Cropped out, just search Sunflower in Fantasia. Yeah I got nothing, Maybe The Plant was moving because of Sunflower. They Call him Bacchus in the film, But both are correct, it's Dionysus Bacchus, And Zeus needs to be a party pooper, He wasn't invited. FREE THE NIPPLE! Dance Of The Hours is set to the tune of Hello Muddah Hello Faddah. The Elephants were Blown away like the Nanny's in Marry Poppins, But they'll be back. In Fantasia Satan is Chernabog, Yes there are people who have nightmares about The Bald Mountain Sequence, Mainly because of Chernabog and his Minions. And here come the Catholics to Celebrate All Saints Day, November 1st. Ave Maria is to decompress the Audience, Now get in your car and Go Home, It's over.
You should see Fantasia 2000. The last sequence is by far my favorite visually and musically. I had to do a thing for English where I had to describe a music piece of my choice and I chose the last one and got an A+. I just love it so much.
Remember these are artists interpretation and should be taken in the spirit they were created.
I guess they left the "Mickey murders a Broom with an axe" part out of the Disney park experience?
After that comes "Attack of the clones".😁
"Night on Bald Mountain" used to be among my favorites when I was a kid. I really loved it and I still do as of today, but with insight... dayum that shit is scary.
In my mind, Night on Bald Mountain took place on Halloween night with the Ave Maria segment taking place the next morning on All Saint’s Day.
a few notes about the music: most of the orchestrations were "touched up" to add additional emphasis and drama where the filmmakers felt it was needed. the "rite of spring" (dinosaurs segment) was probably the most heavily altered, both in orchestration and rearrangement of the sequence of dance episodes in the original ballet, not to mention the cutting of episodes in the score, to make it suit the narrative that the filmmakers wanted to present. the orchestral arrangement of the "toccata and fugue" was stokowsk's own famous orchestration of the original j s bach organ work.
Stokowski was a fine orchestrator. I particular like his take on Debussy's "L'cathedral engloutie". Marvelous.
Fun fact: The Sorcerer (Yen Sid) Was modeled after Walt Disney.
This was the first movie my parents took me to the theater to see when I was about 7yo. (1960) In so many ways, it was truly a "life changing" experience (even though I didn't know it at the time). It planted the first seed of two lifelong interests....1) science (evolution of life on earth) and 2) opened my young mind to the music beyond just the pop music of the day. Obviously, the amount of hand -drawn animation in the film was and is mind blowing, but I didn't appreciate that aspect until I was much older.
Wait, it's 2 hours long?! I love that movie so much, I've never noticed that.
I saw this alot as a kid, Chernabog didn't scare me one bit, as opposed to a certain type of spider that I don't wanna think about.
I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but I’d love for you to react to “The Three Caballeros.” That movie has a lot of beautiful artwork that is very similar to “Fantasia” at points.
The bits of broken broom turning into hundred of living brooms used to give my dad nightmares. Or at least terrify him, I forget.
I think the reason a lot of the humanoid males look "off" is cuz Disney was still getting used to drawing humans. Particularly male humans. At least realistically. One reason why the prince in Snow White didn't have a lot of screentime is cuz he was difficult to draw.
I would love to watch you react to Fantasia 2000 now that you've watched the original one. I grew up watching Fantasia 2000 and it's easily my favorite out of the two.
Disney's Pinocchio. I'm telling you, as an art student...Disney's Pinocchio.
17:15 I believe the stumpy dude in the dinosaur section is called placerias a herbivore from the triassic period although I'm not sure why it's so small and lacks tusks
I think it’s Kannemeyeria, an ancestor relative of Placerías.
16:16 that “spiny guy” is called a Spinosaurus.
We watched this in the theater. 70’s & 80’s Amazing on a Big screen !
24:20 That's...not actually the problematic part! You remember that repeating shot from earlier? And how the rug unrolled itself? They took out a character who WAS a racist charicature; a dark-skinned donkey centaur with frizzy hair who kind of fumbled around and helped the other centaurettes like a maid. Her name was Sunflower, and she hasn't been in a released version of Fantasia since before 1969.
How is depicting the inspirational cultures accurately racist? You people are brainwashed out of your minds.
Depicting Asian themed mushrooms as Asian isn't racist.... it's simply being accurate. Surprise. Asians have slanted eyes. That's a biological fact.
Depicting Black themed animals as Black..... isn't racist. It's simply accurate.
If they had chickens or dogs that were based off Vikings, and they made them Blonde and blue eyed you wouldnt' consider that "racist".
If they had an Irish themed section, and made red-headed charicatures doing Irish tap dance.... you wouldn't call that "racist".
Why do you people have to ruin everything. Take your twisted, hypocritical Cult beliefs somewhere else
Films used optical soundtracks (not magnetic) which were outside the frame. This was apparently well-known enough in 1940 that having the soundtrack enter from the left of the screen was understood. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_sound
Isn't that something that happened in US History? I believe they show that on Forest Gump too. It's not about "why they did it" it's about "what really happened".
It wasn't the norm for movies to have intermissions then, but it wasn't unheard-of, especially for movies that were either unusually long (like Gone with the Wind) or "artistically prestigious" like Fantasia. Also, it was initially shown in only selected theaters in big cities, ones that could handle the very early stereo sound, so it was an "event" like going to a play. In later reissues to theaters (once a decade or thereabouts), the intermission was eliminated and the narration shortened, so it could be shown in regular theaters more times per day. (When they wanted to restore it for DVD, it was quite a job assembling all the original elements.)
I’d love to see you reacting to “Fun and Fancy-Free”. It’s one of my childhood favorite movies…
I love the land before time films ^^
OMG i just realized the music into in "young and beautiful" video by lana del rey is a literal ode to this movie's intro. is the same exact image of multiplied musician shadows and sam stairs number on the conductor, they play with colours too shsjkdhsfdhjsaf
tbh when you are a kid this movie is a little bit difficult to digest...i donteven remember if as a 5 or 6 year old i was able to finish it. if i did, i dont even rememeber and we never even watched it again. it's still there, among the disney vhs films, but yeah...basically new xdd
oh, the ballet ostrich, she made a cameo in who framed roger rabbit XDD
You need a definitely see Fantasia 2000 too, equally as amazing
It's not animated but if you're looking for a good Nutcracker to watch on your own, "Nutcracker: The Motion Picture" is an excellent filmed version of the ballet with production design based on Maurice Sendak's artwork. (although it's got some racist iconography of its own)
I super loved Night on Bald Mountain even as a kid. So much is happening and looked so cool. Loved the design and colors 👌
The only part that deeply scared me as a child was "Dance of the Hours" where the elephants get blown away. Like where did they go. Why did that happen to them. How is it even possible. Did they die? Are they lost. Do they ever come back?
7 year me was shook lol
I was legit scared of gusty winds for awhile 😅
I think Twister also came out around then too. It just made it worse. 🤔
Never thought about it till now but male ostriches have black body plumage, the females have brown, so they got the ostriches color wrong
Night on Bald Mountain was my favorite as a kid. Because I was (And am) really into Halloween and it was like the demon called up all the lesser demons and ghosts for a party. and then the dawn came and time to go back to sleep.
I’ve been obsessed with this film ever since I was a child. I think it’s a truly important piece of art.
Can I recommend a very interesting film that I think you will love the art style of? The Last Unicorn.
Please check it out. It’s artistically incredible. I really want to see what you think. Please.
Also do Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The marriage of animation and live action is impressive
I think this is the best animated Disney Movie. My favourite segments are sorcerer’s apprentice because of Mickey, rite of spring because of the music, and Night on Bald Mountain because of how disturbing it is.
maybe you should check out 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'.
As far as animals go... I'm just grateful that goats never made into Fantasia. I hate them!
As to the first piece of animation, I have chromesthesia (a kind of synesthesia, where color and sound are connected for me) and that musical sequence is similar to what goes on in my mind’s eye when I listen to music. Although different notes of different instruments are different shades of color, so at 4:03 instead of just one red, the lines would vary depending on frequency, usually with lighter being higher, but sometimes being more orange if higher and a bluer hue in the lower register.
Now that I’ve actually seen this, I want to show it to my husband; I’ve always tried to describe it for him and it’s very difficult to get across. The movie Ratatouille kind of had a segment like it with flavors and colors as well, but it’s not as accurate as this because it’s not chromesthesia, although it’s still a form of synesthesia.
According to my dear mother, when I used to watch Fantasia on our old vhs player way back when I was a wee little lad, I could rewind and rewatch the Night on Bald Mountain segment several times, but she never saw me stay and watch the entirety of the Ave Maria segment even once. Three guesses who's an atheist these days? The first two guesses don't count. xD
One of my all time favorites, do Fantasia 2000
If you haven't seen Pinocchio, I'd recommend doing that, because the animators said that the scenes with the water in that movie were the best animation the studio put out.
The intermission was because they needed to change movie reels
27:05 Either Apollo or Helios, I'm not sure which one. But I'm sure the moon goddess was specifically Artemis not Selene.
Wow you’re reacting to Fantasia? That’s great
My favorite segment is the Nutcracker one
16:35 Taht movie made me cry a river!! At the start I hear the soundtrack, the tears rises
Awesome
Please watch I lost my body! It’s a french animated film
You should watch Fantasia 2000, it's wild.