Your Favorite Fantasia (1940) Segment?

Dance of the Hours

I chose The Nutcracker but I love the Pastoral and Ave Maria segments too. Hate Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Dance of the Hours. Rite of Spring is kind of sad.

It IS Your Favorite Fantasia Segment!

I have to put in what I expect will be the only vote for the Bach episode.

It is evidently the first major work of abstract animation by an American studio.

Vernon Kilns

Pines of Rome by Respighi

Sorry.

When she sang "Summertime."

My favorite Fantasia is the soul singer who takes her mafuckin shoes off when shows off. That’s my favorite Fantasia.

Eric Porter (not the renowned actor) was known as "Australia’s Walt Disney”.

As such.

None of them move me nearly as much as the "Pomp and Circumstance" with Donald and Daisy Duck in "Fantasia 2000." That little thing is one of the sweetest things ever.

But "Dance of the Hours" is hilarious.

I think there's a lot to love in Melody Time.

R8 incidentally, "The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not a Fairytale" is currently free to watch on YouTube.

I know I’m going to catch shade for this, but I sat down about a year ago to watch this, ready to be enthralled, and found it boring.

I honestly wanted to love it. It just feels supremely dated, in a way, say, The Wizard of Oz doesn’t.

It's solely meant to be viewed on a big screen really, really stoned.

R14 if it's any consolation, FANTASIA flopped when it was originally released in 1940.

Thus, it is now a "cult classic," a film that bombs on initial release but is later rediscovered and appreciated years later.

There's also the Italian satire Allegro Non Troppo:

"An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon..."

the exit

Had this on VHS as a kid and I think I watched it once. All I recall are dancing brooms or mops and one scene? vignette? with some kind of large demon. Am I misremembering that?

I find I enjoy it better watching just the segments, not all together.

I don't like any part of that pretentious and vulgar shit.