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Unfortunately some technical imperfections date the pre-war film and mar its polish. The color reproduction is inferior, and the animation cannot always respond to the musical rhythms. But these irritations are swept aside by the sheer excitement of Fantasia's experimental efforts. And, perhaps most interesting, Disney's successes and failures throughout the film raise a host of questions concerning the relationship between musical and visual...
...Fantasia is an experiment in translating classical music onto the screen through abstract and cartoon animation. When first shown in 1940, Walt Disney's most imaginative work was frustrated at the box office. Since Hollywood has never since dared a similar experiment, the film remains an original and fresh experience for the moviegoer...
...Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor Biggs employed at least four different phrasings for the same fugue subject. The Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation is such a wandering piece that it is no wonder that Biggs lost his place. Perhaps his best playing of the evening came in the Schumann Canon in B Minor, where his crisp short attacks were appropriate...
...Hippopotamuses, quite as dumpy-dainty as Disney imagined them in his Fantasia ballet, glide and swoop and teeter-tiptoe underwater, looking like corpulent, flirtatious, middle-aged belles at a eurythmics seminar, except when they gap their incredible yaps, and let the fish swim in to pick their teeth...
...Once, during the production of Fantasia, Walt sat through a screening of the centaur sequence set to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. When it was over he turned to one of his assistants and said earnestly: "Gee! This'll make Beethoven...