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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…“Disney Documentaries” that arrived alongside Fantasia to make up an unofficial plug for the Walt Disney Treasures gap this year are very close seconds. Although perhaps it does focus so… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second World War), Walt was looking for… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…Studio, and pushed forward many inspiring projects, most notably Disney’s first feature-length animated film, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, as well as Pinocchio and Fantasia. Much of the artwork… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…White, Pinocchio and Fantasia, the 1941 Cartoonists’ Strike, plus the onslaught of World War II, which led to the unexpected surprise smash of the delightful Dumbo, it seemed that Bambi… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…to build their skyscraper in tune, and probably providing a healthy dose of inspiration to Eric Goldberg, later the animator-director of Fantasia/2000’s often similar sequence Rhapsody In Blue. Finally from… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…incredibly craptastic return of “Disney’s Virtual Vault”, a feature so lambasted after its debut on Fantasia that I hoped we’d seen the last of it. The Blu-ray 3D disc, as… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
…their color palette.” So, what’s next, you ask!? After Pinocchio, “We are going to do the same thing to Fantasia that we’ve done to all these other Platinum titles. That… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…chapter on both Pinocchio and Fantasia, and finally you took off Fantasia from your book. How’s that? JB:When I started writing about Fantasia, I decided to not go into detail… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…possible third Fantasia feature, before that project then changed into being something more original, with new music to accompany the visuals. Scored by The Lion King’s Lebo M (actually taken,… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…one short segment of a whole sequence like in ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ in Fantasia. Although it is far from being my favorite moment, many had put the Mushroom passage forward…. |
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"Get Them Before They Disappear" – Disney DVDs go out of print
…classic titles include Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia and its continuation Fantasia/2000, as well as the box that brings both of these films together and adds The Fantasia Legacy disc for the… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…“Dance of the Hours” segment of Fantasia (1940), a ballet parody that she also helped choreograph. She appeared in Honor of the West and All Women Have Secrets (1939) under… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…the company in terms of commercial success. Artistic progress was certainly being made, over films such as the incredibly lush and detailed Pinocchio, the ambitious Fantasia and naturalistic Bambi, but… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…developing. They were thinking about doing a sequel to Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. I loved this idea that the music drove the visuals and the story. Pixote Hunt was the… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Disney’s huge cast of villains, and more about things that go bump in the night, with a fair few told with music, mock-Fantasia style. Mickey’s House Of Villains is a… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…trend of playing in a long loop as opposed to being optionally selectable. Actual title previews, amongst other spots and promos, include The Lion King, Fantasia/Fantasia 2000, Alice In Wonderland:… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…optional menu, additional spots for Old Dogs, James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition, Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue, Fantasia/Fantasia 2000: Diamond Edition and other generic promos can… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…had become famous for. The advent of the War had cut off the important international markets for his films, and after the blockbusting Snow White, returns for Pinocchio, Fantasia and… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…and Fantasia, the 1941 Cartoonists’ Strike, plus the onslaught of World War II, which led to the unexpected surprise smash of the delightful Dumbo, it seemed that Bambi kept on… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…about Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell, but the transformation, in the bridge, of these hands into animation also made me think about the beginning of Fantasia, with the orchestra… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…as a third Fantasia, but that then changed into being something more original, with new music accompanying the visuals. Scored by The Lion King’s Lebo M (actually taken, as with… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…Beagle Boy types, make their move at a gala opera (a nice Fantasia nod), locking Mickey in jail (some excellent character work here) and leaving Donald and Goofy to patch… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…limitedly shown theatrical documentary films, concurrently released with yet a further documentary, on the making of the recent short film Destino, with a sparkling new Blu-ray edition of Fantasia. If… |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…I remember when I reviewed the Walt Disney Treasures tin set Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studio, I was struck by some of the images from Fantasia as… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…Disney at the time. This short, incidentally, features a learned owl teaching a classroom of birds about music. It previously appeared on the Fantasia DVD. Football Then And Now (7:30),… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…Fantasia would be revisited in 1999 with the incredible Fantasia 2000 where new classical themes and elements were explored and put to animation. When the first wave of Walt Disney… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…all of the early Disney pictures (Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Song Of The South, Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty) all now regarded as animation masterpieces, and in which Johnston… |
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More on Lorenzo: A Tale of the Tail
…article mentions that Lorenzo was “originally intended as part of a follow-up musical anthology to Fantasia 2000,” which would seem to be further evidence that Fantasia 2006 has fallen by… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…machine and being able to look over his shoulder while he worked on Don Quixote, Fantasia and Peter Pan. His artwork is extremely different from what we imagine as being… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…two years later with Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, it could be seen as being often naïve, showing off the slight inexperience of its crew. But that’s all gone again now,… |
