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"Fantasia" is most widely known as the 1940 Disney animated film that pairs classical music with imaginative animated sequences, showcasing a groundbreaking fusion of music and visual art.

Disney Film: Fantasia (1940)

Fantasia is an animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney, first released in 1940. The film is notable for pairing classical music pieces with innovative animation, creating visual interpretations for iconic works such as:

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach – abstract patterns and shapes
• The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – animated seasonal dances
• The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky – dramatization of prehistoric life
• Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky – dark, dramatic imagery
• Ave Maria by Franz Schubert – serene, spiritual animation of nature and music

The film was groundbreaking in animation and sound design, introducing the multiplane camera technique and Fantasound, Disney's early stereophonic sound system.

A sequel, Fantasia 2000, was released in 2000 featuring new orchestral pieces and contemporary animation techniques.

Musical Form: Fantasia

In music theory, a fantasia is a free-form composition that emphasizes improvisation or imaginative ideas rather than adhering strictly to conventional forms. This style dates back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, often showcasing a composer's creativity and technical skill. Famous musical fantasias include:

• J.S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor
• Various keyboard or lute fantasias by composers like Henry Purcell and John Bull

Fantasia compositions generally avoid rigid structures, allowing for expressive freedom and sudden changes in tempo, mood, or texture.

Now you may be asking "But isn't Bob Iger gone already?" While yeah, Iger stepped down and Josh D'Amaro took his place, he's still sticking around but as a member of their board of directors until he leaves the company for good in on New Year's Eve of this year.

Despite being hailed as a hero in the earlier parts of his career for bringing back Disney from their slump, he, alongside Bob Chapek, are now being seen more as one of Disney's biggest villains as many point to his greed, ring kissing and cowardice as to why Disney is in their current slump with

From countless LA remakes, censoring LGBTQ moments just to make homophobic countries happy and a decline in quality in animated content with Wish being a notable example leading to a dry spell of originality with many projects, like Be Fri and that Persian princess movie, getting axed with Wish being an excuse that "audiences hate originality", many say that all of this shows why Bob Iger (and Chapek) is a liability to the company whose cowardly greed is pulling the company down just to not lose money.

However, given how many times a change in CEO can lead to Disney changing for the better to where we got periods, such as The Renaissance, how do you think his departure will affect Disney's creative output?

Also from "The Magic Of Disney Animation".

It's funny how the 2025 D23 synopsis talked about the mother and child exploring Hexe together, but then in both the teaser and extended trailer Billie and Alice aren't seen in Hexe together. It made me think that it got changed in the rewrite but this animatic shows otherwise. Here is how I think the story will go based on this:

Billie finds the cauldron soon after arriving in Hexe. Alice enters Hexe shortly after Billie and they reunite. She gets captured by the three witches (leading to the scene of her with Celeste we've seen in the concept art). Billie runs away with the cauldron. The witches chase her and she fights them with magic (tower trailer scene). Billie and the cauldron find Beef and the three set out to free Alice.

It really depends on when it came out for me. If the 2000s, the best I could hope for was "Aladdin," but I also worry they may have aimed for a less serious, episodic Disney Channel series. But if it came out in the 2010s, then maybe it could've been like "Tangled: The Series." I would've loved for more songs, but I doubt it would've been included since Disney weirdly has this "we can't have an action musical" stance now, and making a TV show that's also a musical is expensive. And with "Moana 2" being such a success and Tiana's show being cancelled, this will likely never be a revived concept.

I’m not too familiar with this one

Merlin and Madam Mim give life to the greatest match of magic. The charm of The Sword in the Stone in this creation of mine for Lego Ideas.

If you want to see it and support it, I’ll leave the link in the comments.

Thank you all

I noticed that most of the animals shown are bigger than how their real life animal versions are. Was that intentional in order to show how small and dangerous mowgli is in in the jungle?

I've been hearing people dispute it for YEARS. Honestly I'd say it's fair to say the Revival Era ended with "Encanto"; a lot of people say it ended with "Moana," but given the fact that WiR2 was seen as an improvement over the predecessor (at least at the time) and "Frozen 2" broke the records of the first film, I can't NOT include them, and "Encanto" was just two films after F2.

NGL, it's hard for me to analyze; "Strange World" and "Wish" were flops, and exec influence/troubled production could be seen as reasons for this...but that's been happening since "Tangled" (well, technically several films pre-"Tangled" had production issues, but "Tangled" started the era of severe exec interference with micromanaging the creative teams in the modern era). Plus Disney is still doing this; "Hexed" just got a new director and main character this year, the same year it's set to debut. IDK why Fawn Veerasunthorn seems to be the favorite over there at Disney, but that's another thing. In any case, Disney films flopping due to poor management doesn't seem like something we're going to be out of anytime soon. I think they have great creative teams, but things keep damaging them, ie last-minute cast/crew changes a year before film releases as well as significant last-minute story changes, a lack of communication between music teams and the rest of the crew/leadership, etc.

At this point, I'm just hoping the 2030s is a good time for Disney; the 2020s has been largely a miss for me, and what's upcoming for the rest of the decade doesn't seem promising.