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Fantasia

 

 

Released: Official Release Date: November 12, 1940

Copyright: Walt Disney Productions © 1940

MPAA Rating: G (General Audiences ~ All Ages Admitted)

Length: 124 Minutes

 

 

Cast Characters Songs Awards

 

Cast

            Walt Disney ~ Mickey Mouse

            Julietta Novis ~ “Ave Maria” Soloist

            The Philadelphia Orchestra ~ Themselves (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

            Leopold Stokowski ~ Himself (Leopold Stokowski)

            Deems Taylor ~ Himself (Deems Taylor)

 

 

Characters

            Apollo

            Autumn Fairies

            Baby Pegasus

            Bacchus

            Ben Ali Gator

            Blossom Ballet

            Brooms

            Brudus

            Centaurettes

            Centaurs

            Chernabog

            Cupids

            Deems Taylor ~ Deems Taylor (Himself)

            Demons

            Dewdrop Fairies

            Diana

            Dinosaurs

            Elephanchine

            Frost Fairies

            Ghosts

            Goldfish

            Hop Low

            Hyacinth Hippo

            Iris

            Jacchus

            Leopold Stokowski ~ Leopold Stokowski (Himself)

            Melinda

            Mickey Mouse ~ Walt Disney

            Milkweed Ballet

            Mlle. Upanova

            Morpheus

            Mushroom Dancers

            Orchid Girls

            Pegasus

            Pegasus’ Family

            The Philadelphia Orchestra ~ The Philadelphia Orchestra (Themselves)

            Pilgrims

            Snowflake Fairies

            Thistle Boys

            Vulcan

            Yen Sid

            Zeus

 

 

Songs

“Ave Maria”

            Julietta Novis as Soloist

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“Dance Of The Hours (from ‘La Gioconda’)”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“A Night On Bald Mountain”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“The Pastoral Symphony, Op. 68”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“The Rite Of Spring”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

“Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565”

            The Philadelphia Orchestra

 

 

Awards

1941 Academy Award Winner ~ Special Award (Sound) ~ to Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company, for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia (certificates)

1941 Academy Award Winner ~ Special Award (Music) ~ to Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievements in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney’s production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form (certificate)

 

 

Character Names Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse, Pegasus, Hyacinth Hippo, & Chernabog from the Fanatsia page at Disney.com (disney.go.com) at  http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/archives/

Cast name Walt Disney (as “Mickey Mouse”) from the Mickey Mouse page at Disney.com (disney.go.com) at  http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/archives/

Character names for Dewdrop Fairies, Hop Low, Mushroom Dancers, Blossom Ballet, Goldfish, Thistle Boys, Orchid Girls, Autumn Fairies, Milkweed Ballet, Frost Fairies, Snowflake Fairies, Brudus, Melinda, Bacchus, Jacchus, Zeus, Vulcan, Iris, Apollo, Diana, Morpheus, Cupids, Centaurs, Centaurettes, Mlle. Upanova, Elephanchine, Demons, Ghosts, Pilgrims, Dinosaurs, Pegasus’ Family, Baby Pegasus from Encyclopedia Of A Walt Disney’s Animated Characters (Rev. Ed.) (1993) by John Grant, published by Hyperion Books (New York).

 

 

 

 

 

This page was last edited on April 4, 2003.

 

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