FANTASIA

Classic Animated Feature

Walt Disney Pictures

Rated G; 120 minutes; 1940

Celebrating its golden anniversary, Walt Disney's FANTASIA remains one of the most requested college titles of all time! Previously unavailable non-theatrically, this one-of-a-kind cinema classic is now available for showing on your college campus. Newly restored and enhanced by the Walt Disney Studios in a multi-million dollar effort, FANTASIA represents the very best in animation produced by a team of filmmakers at the top of their craft. An audience favorite for more than 50 years, FANTASIA is a classic piece of moviemaking combining classical music and animation into an event unmatched in motion picture history.

REVIEWS

"More glorious than ever before. Walt Disney's masterpiece glows with a new radiance."

— Michael Medved, SNEAK PREVIEWS/PBS

"There is no doubt that FANTASIA introduced an enormous number of people to classical music and many music critics have acknowledged Disney's film as a formative influence."

— Neil Sinyard, THE BEST OF DISNEY

"Structurally, (FANTASIA) owes very little to anything that preceded it in the history of the cinema...and Disney deserves great credit for breaking so boldly with precedent. His artists deserve credit for some of the finest animation that has ever reached the screen. FANTASIA is an amazing piece of film-making, one that will continue to fascinate audiences."

— Christopher Finch, THE ART OF WALT DISNEY

"FANTASIA was Disney's most ambitious undertaking and, in all respects, his most controversial endeavor. Not much of a money-maker in its initial release, it has, in the past few years, become a phenomenal favorite of the younger generation, who have no concern with Disney's tampering with the musical pieces, and no deep thought about possible sacrilege in pictorializing these compositions. They are simply bowled over by the film's imagination."

— Leonard Maltin, THE DISNEY FILMS

"FANTASIA is a Disney and not a classic conception of a concert, and even though the music is broader and more powerful than any you've heard from the screen, it is the imagery and not the scores you will follow during the show. Thus, you can dismiss the complaints of the little hierarchy of music men who try to make music a sacrosanct, mysterious and obscure art. Disney has brought it out of the temple, put it in carpet slippers and an old sweater, and made it work to surround and support and synchronize a brilliantly-drawn series of animated color sketches."

— Pare Lorentz, McCALLS

"A masterpiece...Disney revolutionizes movies again. . ."

— LOOK MAGAZINE

"Simply terrific."

— Bosley Crowther, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"As terrific as anything that has ever happened on a screen."

— THE NEW YORK TIMES