Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain. After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons and eventually came up with his first star, Mickey Mouse, designed not by Disney, but by his head cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The development of more sophisticated cameras allowed Disney to create full length animated features: Fantasia, the Sill Symphonies, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which all had their roots in the primitive silent animation which Disney had seen when younger. There is no amazing story surrounding the creation of Mickey Mouse, or any other of the menagerie. With typical matter of factness, Disney explained...
...enhanced at the Disney studios in the late 1930s. Mr. Feild still contends animation is "the total aesthetic experience," the most "difficult art form" yet developed. Involving language, music, movement, controlled color, its potential was nearly unlimited. That in five years it developed in sophistication from "Mickey Mouse" to "Fantasia" suggested to Mr. Feild that, given 20 more years, it might have been possible to animate Dante. But the comparative economy killed animation. Like stainglass, Mr. Feild believes it will be a lost art form until our culture forgoes Mammon...
Feild, Associate of North House, worked with Disney early in his career. Speaking on the Disney style, he said. "Animation is the contemporary art form. But after 'Fantasia', it ceased to be art. Animation is a terribly expensive craft--in a competitive economy, animation can't afford to be an art form...
Near the end of Three Thirty Five there are aspirations to the higher reaches of the imagination in a section called "Fantasia," which is illustrated with cartoons that are dull imitations of Don Martin and the "Wizard of Id." The high point of the book is here, a very decent and troubled look at four years at Harvard by a senior named Alex Swistel. So is the low point, a piece called "On Love" by someone named Anne Segal who shares with us an alleged Harvard student's musing on that all-important subject. The author approvingly quotes her friend...
...Called a "musical come-together," Joy as a stage show has no more plot than a bagful of rainbows. But on a new RCA album, relieved of the need for action and reduced to pure sound, Joy becomes the sunniest original-cast LP of the year, an irresistible fantasia of blues, bossa nova, jazz and mild rock that tumbles beautifully out of living-room loudspeakers...