Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles County Museum, put on an exhibition that did Disney justice. Los Angeles Museum's enterprising director, Roland J. McKinney, concentrated on showing the public how the technique of animation developed, step by step, from the flip-books and shooting-gallery slot, machines of the late 1890s to Fantasia...
Wrote Pundit Dorothy Thompson last week of Walt Disney's Fantasia...
Schubert: Fantasia in C Major ("The Wanderer") (Edward Kilenyi, pianist, with orchestra conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz; Columbia: 6 sides; $3.50). Based in part on a Schubert song, expanded into a concerto by Franz Liszt, this glittering romantic work here gets its best recording to date...
Long before Fantasia was finished, expenses began to mount, and fellow Hollywoodians began to whisper again about "Disney's Folly." With $200,000 spent on Stokowski's fancy recordings, and a technical bill that overtops Snow White's, the total figure for the production amounted to $2.250.000. Because Engineer Garity's new sound mechanism is so complicated and expensive, only twelve theatres at a time will be equipped to show Fantasia, and RCA sound-equipment manufacturers figure that it will take several years before small-town cinema houses can get the gadgets to perform...
...what he had had in mind all along in his Rite of Spring. Musicians and sound engineers who came to hear Soundman Garity's gadgets perform found that such recording had never before been even approached. Music lovers crowed that more ears would be saved for Beethoven by Fantasia than by all the symphonic lecture-recitalists in the U. S. The New York Academy of Sciences asked for a private showing of the Rite of Spring because they thought its dinosaurs better science than whole museum-loads of fossils and taxidermy...