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Friday Evening May 14 Overture to "Mignon" "The Ride of the Valkyrion" Gorshwinian, Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies Saturday Evening, May 15 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (After a Ballad of Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...
...Fantasia's use of color to suggest moods and emotions is repeated in the yellow-white silhouettes of Bambi and his mother fleeing from the hunters in the meadow-symbols of livid fear. When Bambi fights another buck for possession of Faline, the spring day darkens to an ominous brownish red, like drying blood. The battling bucks fight in luminous outline against a wine-dark background...
Music received its first special award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out its annual Oscars last week (see p. 68). The special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners...
...Director Ben Sharpsteen and his staff fretted over Dumbo's characterization and form, had about decided to give him a head shaped like a human's when Artist Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla asserted himself. Dark, ponderous Tytla is generally assigned to the "heavies," created the devil-giant for Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain. Since he was doing the big elephants, he had to draw a Dumbo stand-in for the sequence in which Mrs. Jumbo receives her baby via stork...
...Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...