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{{Infobox movie
| name           = Fantasia
| image          = Fantasia theatrical trailer.png
| director       = Ben Sharpsteen<br>Bill Roberts<br>David Hand<br>Ford Beebe<br>Hamilton Luske<br>James Algar<br>Jim Handley<br>Norm Ferguson<br>Paul Satterfield<br>T. Hee<br>Wilfred Jackson
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]
| screenplay     = Dick Huemer<br>Joe Grant
| story          = Albert Heath<br>Arthur Heinemann<br>Bianca Majolie<br>[[Bill Peet]]<br>Campbell Grant<br>Carl Fallberg<br>Elmer Plummer<br>Erdman Penner<br>George Stallings<br>Graham Heid<br>John McLeish<br>Joseph Sabo<br>Norman Wright<br>Lee Blair<br>Leo Thiele<br>Otto Englander<br>Perce Pearce<br>Phil Dike<br>Robert Sterner<br>Sylvia Moberly-Holland<br>Webb Smith<br>William Martin
| starring       = Deems Taylor<br>Leopold Stokowski<br>The Philadelphia Orchestra<br>Walt Disney (voice)
| cinematography = James Wong Howe
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.]]
| released       = November 13, 1940
| runtime        = 124 minutes
| language       = English
| budget         = $2,280,000 (est.)
| gross          = $76,408,097
}}

'''''Fantasia''''' is the third [[List of Disney animated movies|animated movie]] produced by [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]]. It was first released on November 13, 1940. It was originally released by itself instead of [[RKO Pictures]], which was the distributor of Disney from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 movie)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'', until ''[[Peter Pan (1953 movie)|Peter Pan]]''. Along with Pinocchio, it was one of the first ever Disney animated movies released in the same year as each other. Fantasia was the first Disney animated movie to have a live-action cast into the mix of animation. In this case, it features Deems Taylor, Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

As Disney's first animated anthology movie, ''Fantasia'' contains eight [[classical music]] pieces. One of them is from [[Igor Stravinsky|Igor Stravinsky's]] ''[[The Rite of Spring]]''. It tells the story of [[life]] on Earth until the [[extinction of the dinosaurs]]. Another famous work that appears in the movie is [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s [[Toccata and Fugue in D minor]] for [[organ (music)|organ]]. The most famous classical music piece in this film is Paul Dukas, [[The Sorcerer’s Apprentice]] starring Mickey Mouse from the animated cartoons in his movie debut. This is Mickey Mouse's most famous role. After [[inflation]], Fantasia is the [[List of highest-grossing animated movies|fourth most successful animated movie that anyone has made yet]]. 

A sequel to this movie, ''[[Fantasia 2000]]'', was released in 2000.

== Segments ==
Deems Taylor is the narrator of the segments, while Leopold Stokowski conducts the music of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Every animated character in this Disney animated movie is a silent character. The only exception is Mickey Mouse.

The following segments introduced by Taylor are included:
* Toccata and Fugue in D minor - The first segment of the movie. The first half of the segment features colorful silhouettes of Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The second half of the segment features abstract images. The segment ends with Stokowski whisking some wind before he stops playing the music.
** Music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
* The Nutcracker Suite - A series of poems featuring magical beings. The first half of the segment is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy which features colorful [[faeries]] putting dewdrops on the plants. The second half of the segment is The Chinese Dance which features [[Chinese]] [[mushrooms]] performing a Chinese ballet. The third half of the segment is Waltz of the Flowers which features [[flowers]] doing a Waltz dance on the [[water]] led by a white flower. The fourth half of the segment is The Arabian Dance which features an [[Arabian]] girl [[fish]] performing an Arabian ballet. The fifth half of the segment is The Russian Dance which features [[thistle]] [[cossacks]] and [[orchid]] [[peasants]] performing a Russian ballet. The final half of the segment is Dance of the Flutes which features [[autumn]] fairies coloring plants with autumn colors, [[frost]] fairies [[ice skating]] and [[snowflake]] fairies dancing in the breeze.
** Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice - A story about Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer's apprentice. 1 day, Mickey is filling a cauldron with 2 [[buckets]] of water while his master, the sorcerer, is practicing his magic skills. After the sorcerer goes upstairs to take a nap, Mickey is tired of doing his job, so he decides to wear his master's hat and have a broom do the job for him. Mickey then takes a nap himself and dreams of controlling the sky and the water on a tall rock. Afterwards, Mickey wakes up and realizes that the broom is filling too much water causing the basement to be flooded. Mickey destroys the broom with an [[ax]]. He thinks that the trouble is over, but when the broom splinters turn into a broom army, he gets terrified. The brooms fill the whole place with buckets of water. Mickey uses his master's book to look for instruction of how to stop the brooms, but gets trapped in a [[whirlpool]]. The sorcerer wakes up from his nap and sees the trouble. He stops the flood and turns the broom army back into 1 broom. The sorcerer sees that Mickey is behind all this. Mickey gives the hat and broom back to his master. The sorcerer proceeds to get Mickey to go back to work. After the story ends, Mickey and Stokowski congratulate each other.
** Music by Paul Dukas.
* The Rite of Spring - A story about life on [[Prehistoric]] [[Earth]]. The first half of the segment features the [[Big Bang]], the birth of Earth and [[volcanoes]]. The second half of the segment features the first animals in the [[Paleozoic]]. The third half of the segment features [[Mesozoic]] animals underwater and in the air. These include [[Pteranodons]], [[Tylosaurus]] and [[Plesiosaurus]]. The third half of the segment features Mesozoic animals on land. These include [[dinosaurs]], [[synapsids]] and [[Archaeopteryx]]. The fourth half of the segment features the [[extinction]] of the dinosaurs. The final half of the segment features an [[earthquake]] and the Earth's reformation. The prominent characters in the segment are a [[Stegosaurus]] and a [[Tyrannosaurus]] in which they battle for [[dominance]]. After the segment ends, there's a 15-minute intermission.
** Music by Igor Stravinsky.
* Meet the Soundtrack - A demonstration of music. After the intermission, Taylor introduces a white line dubbed the "Soundtrack". The Soundtrack changes color when playing the music. This is the only segment in which there's Taylor's monologue.
** Music originally created for the movie.
* The Pastoral Symphony - A series of gags set in [[Ancient Greece]]. The first half of the segment features [[unicorns]] and [[satyrs]] on a playdate and a pegasus family having fun in the water. The second half of the segment features [[centaur]] girls assisted by cupids for their boyfriends. The last half of the segment features the Olympian Gods which include [[Bacchus]], the god of festivals and his unicorn [[donkey]], [[Zeus]], the god of weather storms, [[Iris]], the goddess of the rainbow, [[Apollo]], the god of the day, [[Morpheus]], the goddess of the night and [[Diana]], the goddess of the stars. The prominent characters of the segment are Bacchus, the centaur girls and the unicorn donkey. In the cases of Bacchus and the unicorn donkey, they are drunk because they love to drink [[grape wine]]. In the cases of the centaur girls, there are three types: horse centaur girls, donkey centaur girls and zebra centaur girls. The horse centaur girls are colorful while the donkey centaur girls and zebra centaur girls are black. The horse centaur girls represent White Americans while the donkey centaur girls and zebra centaur girls represent African-Americans. The horse centaur girls love to play and flirt with Bacchus. Meanwhile, the donkey centaur girls and zebra centaur girls always do the work. Bacchus is depicted in the movie as a fat goofball unlike in the myth who is skinny. Notably, this is the first Disney animated movie to feature African-American characters.
** Music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
* Dance of the Hours - A series of gags about animal ballet dancers. The [[ostriches]] represent morning. The [[hippos]] represent the afternoon. The [[elephants]] represent evening. The [[alligators]] represent night. The prominent characters are Hyacinth Hippo and Ben Ali Gator. This segment is a parody of ballet music.
** Music by Amilcare Ponchielli.
* Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria - The final segment of the movie. At night, a giant demon named Chernabog plays with fire with his minions which include [[ghosts]], [[skeletons]], [[harpies]], [[goblins]], imps and other monsters. By day, the minions retreat while Chernabog goes back to sleep. Afterwards, monks light up their torches as they walk through cathedral ruins, preparing for morning. The segment ends with an operatic voice singing a song about the sacred as the sun rises. After the song, the movie ends.
** Music by Mudest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert.

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