The Concert Feature – Walt Disney's Fantasy
New edition
In 1937 Walt Disney was called upon to take on a great challenge: to restore prestige to his most important character, Mickey Mouse. Eager to make his most majestic and artistic Silly Symphony, he purchased the rights to Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice to make an 8-minute short film. Meeting Leopold Stokowski in a Hollywood restaurant led him to change all his plans, both artistic and budgetary. Going against the wishes of his brother Roy and clashing with those who said it would be a far greater folly than Snow White, Disney manages to bring music to life in an ambitious and innovative feature film. The first distributed in stereo thanks to Fantasound invented by Bill Garity. This is the story of how with Fantasia he proved that it was never just about cartoons, but about something bigger.