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Fantasia (franchise)


Fantasia is an American media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company that commenced in 1940 with the theatrical release of the film of the same name. Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. With story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, and production supervision by Ben Sharpsteen, it is the third feature in the Disney animated features canon. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski; seven of which are performed by the
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Roy E. Disney


Legends Plaza at the company's headquarters, Eisner presented Roy with the prestigious Disney Legends Award. Roy Disney's pet project was the film "Fantasia 2000", a sequel to his uncle's 1940 animated movie "Fantasia". Walt Disney had planned a sequel to the original movie but it wasn't until December 17, 1999 that it was finally released, after nine years of production under Roy. Like its predecessor, the film combined high-quality contemporary animation and classical music, but also suffered at the U.S box
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Fantasia (franchise)


Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's master of ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live-action interstitial scenes. Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 38th animated film in the Disney animated features canon and the sequel to the 1940 film "Fantasia". As with its predecessor the film consists of animated segments set to pieces of classical music, with The Sorcerer's Apprentice being the only segment that
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Fantasia 2000


Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the 38th Disney animated feature film as well as the sequel to "Fantasia" (1940). Like its predecessor, "Fantasia 2000" consists of animated segments set to pieces of classical music. Celebrities including Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn & Teller and Angela Lansbury introduce each segment in live
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Fantasia (1940 film)


Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. With story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, and production supervision by Ben Sharpsteen, it is the third Disney animated feature film. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies, providing a live-action introduction to each animated segment. Disney settled
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Fantasia (franchise)


Tokyo Disney Resort. The show features fireworks, live actors, water effects, pyrotechnics, music, several boats, decorated rafts and projections onto large mist screens featuring reworked Disney animation. The Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf complex is a miniature golf course located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, United States. Located across from the Swan and Dolphin resorts, it has two 18-hole courses themed after the movie Fantasia and opened on May 20, 1996. "Mickey's PhilharMagic" is a Fantasyland attraction at Walt Disney World theme
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Fantasound


Fantasound was a stereophonic sound reproduction system developed by engineers of Walt Disney studios and RCA for Walt Disney's animated film "Fantasia", the first commercial film released in stereo. Walt Disney's cartoon character Mickey Mouse entered a decline in popularity in the mid-1930s. Disney devised a comeback appearance for Mickey in 1936 with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", a more elaborate edition of the animated "Silly Symphonies" series set to the music of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas. Disney met conductor Leopold Stokowski in
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List of Disney's Fantasia characters


"Disney" spelled backwards) was given by Disney animators, as the sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of "Fantasia" had no onscreen name, nor does the character in the original Goethe poem "Der Zauberlehrling", the inspiration for the music piece by Paul Dukas. Film historians believed Fred Moore added the same sized nose as Walt Disney's nose, and even added the same eyebrow length as Walt Disney's eyebrows; the animators used Disney's "dirty look" (which was the look that
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Fantasia 2000


for unknown reasons, with the proposed segments instead being released as standalone short films. "Destino" is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. "Destino" is unique in that its production began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E. Disney, while working on "
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Golden age of American animation


also become the first commercial film to be released in stereophonic sound. However, like "Pinocchio", "Fantasia" was not a financial success. "Fantasia" was also the first Disney film not to be received well, receiving mixed reviews from the critics. It was looked down upon by music critics and audiences, who felt that Walt Disney was striving for something beyond his reach by trying to introduce mainstream animation to abstract art, classical music, and "elite" subjects. However, the film would be reevaluated
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Music technology (electric)


a commercial film was made by Judy Garland for the MGM movie "Listen, Darling" in 1938. The first commercially released movie with a stereo soundtrack was Walt Disney's "Fantasia", released in 1940. The 1941 release of Fantasia used the "Fantasound" sound system. This system used a separate film for the sound, synchronized with the film carrying the picture. The sound film had four double-width optical soundtracks, three for left, center, and right audio—and a fourth as a "control
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Peter and the Wolf (1946 film)


Peter and the Wolf is a 1946 animated short based on the 1936 musical composition/fairy tale by Sergei Prokofiev, produced by Walt Disney and narrated by Sterling Holloway. It was originally released theatrically as a segment in "Make Mine Music". It was re-issued the following year accompanying a re-issue of "Fantasia" (as a short subject before the film), then released separately on home video in the 1990s. Prokofiev, while touring the West in 1938, visited Los Angeles and met Walt Disney
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Fantasia (franchise)


by The Walt Disney Company. "Destino" is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on "Fantasia 2000", unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. "Lorenzo" is a 2004 American animated short film
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Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too


Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too is a 2009 direct-to-video animated film produced by The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere and Polygon Pictures.based on the hit Playhouse Disney series "My Friends Tigger & Pooh". It is the second film of the series. It was released on DVD on April 7, 2009. It premiered on Playhouse Disney less than a week later on April 11. Unlike the "Super Sleuth Christmas Movie", it is treated
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Melody Time


Melody Time (working title All in Fun) is a 1948 American hybrid film and the 10th theatrically released animated feature produced by Walt Disney. It was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Made up of seven segments set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like "Make Mine Music" before it, the popular music version of "Fantasia". "Melody Time", while not meeting the artistic accomplishments of "Fantasia", was mildly successful. It is the
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Walt Disney Classics


Walt Disney Classics is a brand name used by Walt Disney Studios on their home video VHS releases of Disney animated features from 1984 to 1994. The last title in the Classics line was "The Fox and the Hound". With the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," all of the existing titles (except for "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "The Fox and the Hound", "The Great Mouse Detective", "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast"
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Anthony DeRosa


Anthony "Tony" DeRosa is an American character animator, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. DeRosa has worked as a lead animator on several Disney animated features, including "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Hercules", "Fantasia 2000", "" and "The Princess and the Frog". Outside of Disney, DeRosa has worked as an animator on films such as "", "Fat Albert", "Curious George" and "The Simpsons Movie", for
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Lorenzo (film)


were done at the Paris-based division of Walt Disney Feature Animation, while all painting, digital work, and post-production were performed at the Burbank studio. The short was developed as a potential segment for "Fantasia 2006", the third installment following "Fantasia" and "Fantasia 2000". After several years of funding and staff cutbacks at Walt Disney Feature Animation, the project was shelved by November 2003. In addition to "Lorenzo", two other potential shorts that could be included in "Fantasia 2006
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Fantasia 2000


Levine approaches the conductor's podium and signals the beginning of the first piece. In 1940, Walt Disney released "Fantasia", his third animated feature film, consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music. Initially he planned to have the film on continual release with new segments replacing older ones so audiences would never see the same film twice. The idea was dropped following the film's initial low box office receipts and a mixed response from critics. Following preliminary work on new segments, the idea was shelved
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


349 million worldwide, below studio expectations, and the Secret Lab was closed in 2001. "Fantasia 2000", a sequel to the 1940 film that had been a pet-project of Roy E. Disney's since 1990, was released on January 1, 2000. Produced in pieces when artists were available between productions, "Fantasia 2000" was the first animated feature produced for and released in IMAX format. A standard theatrical release followed in June, but the film's $90 million worldwide box office total against its $
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Frank and Ollie


of their careers as animators during their long tenure at Walt Disney Studios, beginning with their hiring a couple of years before the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". They talk about the successes and difficulties of the Walt Disney studios throughout their careers, including the production of Disney's early works such as "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia", decrease in business due to World War II, the unexpected death of Walt Disney in 1966, and the importance of "The Jungle Book"'s success in 1967
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Fantasia: Music Evolved


Fantasia: Music Evolved is a 2014 motion-controlled music rhythm game developed by Harmonix for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One with Kinect. It is the interactive successor to Walt Disney's 1940 animated film "Fantasia" and its 1999 sequel "Fantasia 2000", both of which it is based upon. At the start of the game, the guide, Percy, tells the player that they are embarking on a musical journey. When they finish their training as Apprentices and complete the first songs required to place the stars in
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


1995, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been headquartered in the Roy E. Disney Animation Building in Burbank, California, across Riverside Drive from The Walt Disney Studios, where the original Animation building (now housing corporate offices) is located. The Disney Animation Building's lobby is capped by a large version of the famous hat from the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of "Fantasia" (1940), and the building is informally called the "hat building" for that reason. Disney Animation shares its site with ABC Studios, whose building
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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp


DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (also known as DuckTales: The Movie) is a 1990 animated Comedy-drama Action-Adventure film based on the animated television series "DuckTales". It was released in theaters by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990. The events of the film take place between the third and fourth seasons of "DuckTales". It was the first Disney animated film to be produced by Disney Television Animation under the banner of Disney MovieToons and animated by Walt Disney Animation France S.A.
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Classical music


. Several works from the Golden Age of Animation matched the action to classical music. Notable examples are Walt Disney's "Fantasia", Tom and Jerry's "Johann Mouse", and Warner Bros.' "Rabbit of Seville" and "What's Opera, Doc?" Similarly, movies and television often revert to standard, clichéd excerpts of classical music to convey refinement or opulence: some of the most-often heard pieces in this category include Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1, Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
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Disney Music Group


Disney had sold its rights to the "Snow White" music to Bourne Co. Music as they needed more funds to complete the film. In 1938, Fantasound—the first Surround sound system—was designed and tested by Walt Disney Productions for the release of "Fantasia." In 1943, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated Walt Disney Productions for two Academy Award categories in recognition of "Bambi"; Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Music, Best Song for its song, "Love is
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Fantasia (franchise)


. "Allegro Non Troppo" is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of "Fantasia", two of its episodes being derived from the earlier film. The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy. "Gumbasia" is a 1953 short film by Art Clokey. "Fantasmic!" is a nighttime show at Disneyland in the Disneyland Resort, Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World and Tokyo DisneySea in
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Walt Disney Classics


discussions for the April 18, 1983 launch of Disney Channel. While the people at Disney were looking through their inventory of films to see what was available for the new cable channel, they decided that they could air some fan-favorite films such as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mary Poppins", but that 15 other animated movies would never be aired. These 15 animated feature films – "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Cinderella"
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Irwin Kostal


detour into television to work with such people as Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and Leonard Bernstein. He supervised five of the Sherman Brothers musical film scores (one of them being "Mary Poppins") at four different movie studios between 1964 and 1978. In 1982, he conducted the digital re-recording of the music to Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature "Fantasia". Kostal died of a heart attack in Studio City, California. At the time of his death he was president of the American Society of Music
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Fantasia: Music Evolved


and participate in music making minigames in each realm. (e.g.: moving the hand at certain objects to make music notes) The narration directly references the ""Sorcerer's Apprentice"" segment from Walt Disney's 1940 animated film "Fantasia". The sorcerer Yen Sid tasks his new apprentice, the player, with animating the worlds he has created. Players generate life in initially desolate levels by moving in rhythm with licensed popular and classical music, which unlocks gestures that change elements of the musical composition. In an example
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Walt Disney World


with two courses, Fantasia Gardens and Winter Summerland. The two courses at Fantasia Gardens are Fantasia Garden and Fantasia Fairways. The Garden course is a traditional miniature-style course based on the "Fantasia" movies with musical holes, water fountains and characters. Fantasia Fairways is a traditional golf course on miniature scale having water hazards and sand traps. The two courses at Winter Summerland are Summer and Winter, both themed around Santa. Summer is the more challenging of the two 18-hole courses. Of the thirty-four resorts and
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Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)


, Disney Animation was moved out of the studio lot and into a cluster of old buildings in Glendale. During Michael Eisner's 1986 restructuring of The Walt Disney Company, the studio's animation division was spun off to officially create Walt Disney Feature Animation as a separate subsidiary of the company, and in 1995 it came back to Burbank when its new home opened. The new studio is a colorful architectural landmark, adorned by a giant version of the Fantasia Sorcerer's hat, which once housed the office of Roy Disney, former
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List of Disney's Fantasia characters


seen at the entrance of the Walt Disney Animation Studios building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California (and can be easily seen from both Riverside Drive and the 134 Freeway). Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Disney's home video sales division featured "Sorcerer Mickey" on its covers starting from its inception in 1980. The 1986-2000 Walt Disney Home Video logo and the 1988–1994 Walt Disney Classics logos also featured Sorcerer Mickey. Furthermore, Sorcerer Mickey serves as the logo for Walt Disney Imagineering, the subsidiary of the
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Pooh's Heffalump Movie


Pooh's Heffalump Movie (also known as The Heffalump Movie in the working title) is a 2005 American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Featuring characters from A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories, the film is the third theatrical animated film in Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" franchise and DisneyToon Studios's third adaptation of "Winnie the Pooh" stories, following "The Tigger Movie" (2000) and "Piglet's Big Movie" (
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Disney's All-Star Music Resort


Disney's All-Star Music Resort is a resort that is part of the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of five resorts in the Value Resort category, along with Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, Disney's Pop Century Resort, and Disney's Art of Animation Resort. The resort is located on the southern portion of the Walt Disney World Resort property near Disney's Animal Kingdom. Disney's All-Star Music Resort is a 1,604-room hotel featuring giant icons that
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Surround sound


documented use of surround sound was in 1940, for the Disney studio's animated film "Fantasia". Walt Disney was inspired by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" to have a bumblebee featured in his musical "Fantasia" and also sound as if it was flying in all parts of the theatre. The initial multichannel audio application was called 'Fantasound', comprising three audio channels and speakers. The sound was diffused throughout the cinema, controlled by an engineer using some 54 loudspeakers. The
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Sorcerer's Hat


, at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California which used to hold Roy E. Disney's office. At Walt Disney Studios Paris, the Art of Animation building has a Hat resembling the one in Burbank. The Sorcerer's Hat was originally the hat of Yen Sid in the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment in Walt Disney's 1940 animated film "Fantasia". Mickey Mouse, as the Sorcerer's lazy apprentice, puts on the hat to attempt to use magic to perform his chores, but the magic grows out of Mickey
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Serguei Kouchnerov


and on many other animated short films. When in the United States he worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation on "Fantasia 2000" before joining DreamWorks Animation for such animated feature films as "The Prince of Egypt" (1998), "The Road to El Dorado" (2000), "Shrek 2" (2004), "Bee Movie" (2007), "Madagascar" (2005), "Over the Hedge" (2006), and "" (2008). One of his current works
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List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company


7 Animation, was a short-lived division of Walt Disney Feature Animation specializing in computer generated imagery (CGI) animation and was originally going to work on making sequels to the Disney-owned Pixar properties, leading rivals and animators to derisively nickname the division "Pixaren't". The company released no movies during its tenure. Steve Jobs, Pixar CEO, announced in January 2004 that Pixar would not renew their agreement with Disney and would seek out other distributors for releases starting in 2006. In 2004, Disney Circle 7 Animation
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The Little Mermaid (1989 film)


on October 3, 2006, as part of the Walt Disney Platinum Editions line of classic Walt Disney animated features, including the song "Kiss the Girl" performed by Ashley Tisdale. Deleted scenes and several in-depth documentaries were included, as well as an Academy Award-nominated short film intended for the shelved "Fantasia 2006", "The Little Matchgirl". The DVD sold 1.6 million units on its first day of release, and over 4 million units during its first week, making it the biggest animated DVD
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A Goofy Movie


A Goofy Movie is a 1995 animated musical comedy film produced by Disney MovieToons and Walt Disney Television Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The animated directorial debut of Kevin Lima, the film is based on The Disney Afternoon television series "Goof Troop" created by Robert Taylor and Michael Peraza Jr., and acts as a follow-up to the show. It features the voices of Jason Marsden, Bill Farmer, Jim Cummings, Kellie Martin, Pauly Shore, Jenna von Oÿ, and Wallace Shawn. The film was also
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Disney's All-Star Movies Resort


Disney's All-Star Movies Resort is a resort hotel located at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of five Disney Resorts in the "Value" category along with Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, Disney's All-Star Music Resort, Disney's Pop Century Resort, and Disney's Art of Animation Resort. The resort is located on the southern portion of the Walt Disney World property, and has a Disney Movie theme. Like all Disney Value resorts, the property is decorated with giant Disney film
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Fantasia 2000


-action scenes directed by Don Hahn. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to develop a "Fantasia" sequel, The Walt Disney Company revived the idea shortly after Michael Eisner became chief executive officer in 1984. The commercial success of the 1991 home video release of "Fantasia" convinced Eisner that there was enough public interest and funds for a sequel to which he assigned Disney as executive producer. The music for six of the film's eight segments is performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine. The film includes "The
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Magic Music Days


Choral workshops cover multiple song segments from Disney animated and live action movies and are dubbed onto the film using a click track. Groups participating in a Workshop often receive a DVD of their work. Walt Disney World: WDW clinics are run by Disney World Cast Members. Some of these clinicians also work professionally in their field outside of Walt Disney World. Instrumental clinics are three hours long, cover one Disney medley piece, played back with Disney animation clips, much like a movie trailer. A Disney character, usually Mickey or
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Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)


's legal department. Stage 1 was completed between 1939 and 1940 and is the original Disney soundstage on the Burbank lot. The soundstage was designed to replace a smaller stage at the former Hyperion Avenue Studio. Although Walt Disney Studios predominantly made animated films, the soundstage was built in order to film Leopold Stokowski's segments in the 1940 film "Fantasia". During World War II, the stage was used for repairing army vehicles. The soundstage was formerly dedicated to "Fantasia", for it being the first motion picture that
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Art Stevens


Arthur "Art" Stevens (May 1, 1915 – May 22, 2007) was an animator, director and producer for Walt Disney Productions. Art Stevens was an animator at Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age of American Animation. Stevens began his career Inbetweening on the 1940 film "Fantasia". After doing in-between work on several films, he received his first screen credit in 1953 as a character animator on "Peter Pan". During his career, Stevens contributed to the storyboards and animation in many Disney
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Herbert Ryman


segment of "The Wizard of Oz". In 1938 he returned to California, where he met Walt Disney as a result of an exhibit of Ryman's works at the Chouinard Art Institute. Walt was so impressed with the paintings that he invited Herb to join the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank). Herb went on to serve as an art director for such feature-length animated films as "Fantasia" and "Dumbo". In the late summer of 1941, Ryman toured with Walt Disney, other Disney Studio artists
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Preston Blair


scenes in ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"" section of "Fantasia", and the hippo-alligator dance in "Fantasia's" ""Dance of the Hours"" sequence. He also did some work on Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" and "Bambi". Blair left Disney after the 1941 Disney animator's strike, and was hired to work for Tex Avery's unit at MGM. There, he became particularly noted for animating the titular female character in "Red Hot Riding Hood". "Red
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


to an accompanying orchestral arrangement conducted by Leopold Stokowski, was released in November 1940 by Disney itself in a series of limited-seating roadshow engagements. The film cost $2 million to produce, and although the film earned $1.4 million in its roadshow engagements, the high cost ($85,000 per theater) of installing Fantasound placed "Fantasia" at an even greater loss than "Pinocchio". RKO assumed distribution of "Fantasia" in 1941, later reissuing it in severely edited versions over the years. Despite its financial
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


in October 1941 and proved to be a financial success. The simple film only cost $950,000 to produce, half the cost of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", less than a third of the cost of "Pinocchio", and two-fifths of the cost of "Fantasia". "Dumbo" eventually grossed $1.6 million during its original release. In August 1942, "Bambi" was released, and as with "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia", did not perform well at the box office
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Walt Disney


Oscar statuettes. The success of "Snow White" heralded one of the most productive eras for the studio; the Walt Disney Family Museum calls the following years "the 'Golden Age of Animation'". With work on "Snow White" finished, the studio began producing "Pinocchio" in early 1938 and "Fantasia" in November of the same year. Both films were released in 1940, and neither performed well at the box officepartly because revenues from Europe had dropped following the start of World War II in 1939
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Stereophonic sound


, for the movie "Love Finds Andy Hardy". Walt Disney began experimenting with multi-channel sound in the early 1930s as noted above. The first commercial motion picture to be exhibited with stereophonic sound was Walt Disney's "Fantasia", released in November 1940, for which a specialized sound process (Fantasound) was developed. As in the Carnegie Hall demonstrations six months earlier, Fantasound used a separate film containing four optical sound tracks. Three of the tracks were used to carry left, center and right audio,
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Corey Burton


. Burton has done extensive voice-work for Disney, including animated features and theme park attractions at the Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney Resort. He provides the "Feature Presentation" voice on direct-to-video video releases and can be heard as the narration voice at Disneyland. He provided the voice of Captain Hook in Disney's "Return to Never Land" and dubbed the voice of Deems Taylor in "Fantasia" for the film's 2000 and 2010 re-releases. Burton has voiced sound
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


failure, "Fantasia" was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 – one for the development of the innovative Fantasound system used to create the film's stereoscopic soundtrack, and the other for Stokowski and his contributions to the film. Much of the character animation on these productions and all subsequent features until the late 1970s was supervised by a brain-trust of animators Walt Disney dubbed the "Nine Old Men," many of whom also served as directors and later producers on the Disney features: Frank
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A Goofy Movie


Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Television Animation, Disney MovieToons, Walt Disney Animation France. and Walt Disney Animation Australia. Pre-production was done at the main Feature Animation studio in Burbank, California, starting as early as mid-1993. The animation work was done at Walt Disney Animation France in Paris, France supervised by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, with additional scenes animated at Disney's studio in Sydney, Australia under the direction of Steve Moore, and clean-up work done at the main Burbank studio. Additional clean
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The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)


The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The 18th Disney animated feature film, "The Sword in the Stone" was the final Disney animated film to be released before Walt Disney's death. The songs in the film were written and composed by the Sherman Brothers, who later wrote music for other Disney films like "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1967), "The Happiest Millionaire"
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The Rite of Spring


for every note and that the clarinet line in page 3 is the inverted counterpoint of the horn in page 19. I never thought about that", he allegedly replied to Michel Legrand when asked about Pierre Boulez's take on the matter. After the premiere the writer Léon Vallas opined that Stravinsky had written music 30 years ahead of its time, suitable to be heard in 1940. Coincidentally, it was in that year that Walt Disney released "Fantasia", an animated feature film using music from "The Rite" and
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Art Clokey


Association, that he financed the pilot film for what became Clokey's "The Gumby Show" (1957). The title "Gumbasia" was in homage to Walt Disney's "Fantasia". In 1987, Clokey provided the voice for the figure Pokey in Arnold Leibovit's film "The Puppetoon Movie". The Clokeys are credited with the clay-animation title sequences for the 1965 beach movies "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" and "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini". His son, Joe Clokey,
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Joe Grant


March 4th, 2004 at the Florida Film Festival and made its world premier in front of the critically panned "Raising Helen," with this the only positive feedback from critics and audiences. The finished short was planned at the time to be attached for a planned third "Fantasia movie," but in 2003, the planned feature was eventually cancelled due to several years of funding and staff cutbacks from Walt Disney Feature Animation. The short won an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject, and was included at the Animation Show
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Destino


for eight months in late 1945 and 1946; however production ceased not long after. The Walt Disney Company, then Walt Disney Studios, was plagued by financial woes in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus. In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on "Fantasia 2000", unearthed the dormant project and decided
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Walt Disney Animation Studios


sequences combining live-action and animated characters. Shorts production continued during this period as well, with "Donald Duck", "Goofy", and "Pluto" cartoons being the main output accompanied by cartoons starring Mickey Mouse, Figaro, and in the 1950s, Chip 'n' Dale and Humphrey the Bear. In addition, Disney began reissuing the previous features, beginning with re-releases of "Snow White" in 1944, "Pinocchio" in 1945, and "Fantasia" in 1946. This led to
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The Tigger Movie


The Tigger Movie (also known as Winnie the Pooh and the Family Tree in the working title) is a 2000 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and animation production by Walt Disney Animation (Japan), Inc., written and directed by Jun Falkenstein from a story by Eddie Guzelian. It is the second theatrical "Winnie the Pooh" film after "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" and features Pooh's best friend Tigger searching for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself. The film was
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Cinderella (2015 Disney film)


and success of "Cinderella", along with "Alice in Wonderland", "Maleficent", "The Jungle Book", "Beauty and the Beast", "Christopher Robin", "Dumbo", "Aladdin", and "The Lion King" Walt Disney Pictures has announced the development of several other live-action remakes from their Animated Classics series. Since the releases of these eight films, Disney has announced the development of live-action adaptations of "Mulan", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia
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Gertie the Dinosaur


"Out of the Inkwell" (1918–1929) and Walt Disney's "Alice Comedies" series (1923–1927). McCay's clean-line, high-contrast, realistic style set the pattern for American animation to come, and set it apart from the abstract, open forms of animation in Europe. This legacy is most apparent in the feature films of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, such as "Fantasia" (1940), which included anthropomorphic dinosaurs animated in a naturalistic style with careful attention to timing and weight.
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Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama


Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama (also known as Kim Possible: So the Drama) is a 2005 American animated film television film created by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is the first Disney Channel Original Movie based on the animated television series "Kim Possible". This film includes a mix of hand-drawn animation and computer animation. The film premiered April 8, 2005 on Disney Channel, advertised as the first animated Disney Channel Original Movie. This film was aired before the last
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Farmyard Symphony (film)


Farmyard Symphony is a 1938 Silly Symphonies animated short film inspired by "Farmyard Song". It can be seen as a precursor to "Fantasia" due to using various pieces of classical music in one short. The film was directed by Jack Cutting and produced by Walt Disney. An adaptation of the short was featured in the "Silly Symphony" comic strip over six weeks, from October 23 to November 27, 1938, around the time of the film's theatrical release. While the short doesn't have much of a
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Fantasia (franchise)


Powell, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film stars Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, with Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman. The "Nutcracker Suite" segment serves as inspiration for the feature-length movie. Disney are developing the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from the film, with Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless writing and executive producing the live-action film. "A Corny Concerto" is an American animated cartoon short produced by Leon
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Roadshow theatrical release


it ended. An early example of this was "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Running almost four hours in length, the film was divided into the above components, so that the film patron can experience the film as if they were seeing an actual play in a theater. The original theatrical release of Walt Disney's "Fantasia", presented in Fantasound in selected large cities in the United States, never had an overture, entr'acte, or exit music. Still, "Fantasia" was first released in
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Frozen Fever


resulting in a large number of animator credits for a short film. They struggled to squeeze the animation phase of the short's production into a tight time slot in fall 2014 after animation wrapped on "Big Hero 6" and before the studio's animators had to start working on subsequent features. "Frozen Fever" premiered in theaters alongside Walt Disney Pictures' "Cinderella" on March 13, 2015. It was released on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on August 11, 2015, and was released on the "Walt
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Bill Justice


William Barnard "Bill" Justice (February 9, 1914February 10, 2011) was an animator and engineer for The Walt Disney Company. He was a graduate of the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as 1940's "Fantasia", 1944's "The Three Caballeros", 1951's "Alice in Wonderland", and 1953's "Peter Pan". He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from
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Program music


others, motion picture soundtrack took up the banner of programmatic music following the advent of "talkies". Many film composers, including Paul Smith, Ennio Morricone, and John Williams (whose 1977 "Star Wars" soundtrack redefined the symphonic movie score) have followed the programmatic model and solidified motion picture soundtrack as its own programmatic genre. Music's power for pictorial suggestion may be said to have culminated in Walt Disney's 1940 film "Fantasia". Disney gave us, too, the term Mickey Mousing, used to describe
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Walt Disney Family Museum


operated and funded by the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Disney's heirs including Diane Disney Miller, Disney's daughter and founder of the museum. It is not formally associated with The Walt Disney Company, the media and entertainment enterprise. The 40,000 square foot space in the main museum building features the newest technology and historic materials and artifacts to bring Disney’s achievements to life, with interactive galleries that include early drawings and animation, movies, music, listening stations, and a 12-foot diameter model
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Pocahontas (franchise)


Pocahontas is a Disney media franchise that commenced in 1995 with the theatrical release of "Pocahontas". "Pocahontas" is a 1995 American animated musical romance-drama film and is the 33rd Disney animated feature film. It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and had a limited release to theaters on June 23, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. It belongs to the era known as the Disney Renaissance, from 1989 to 1999 "Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World" is a 1998 straight-to-video sequel
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Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)


Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 51st Disney animated feature film, the film was inspired by A. A. Milne's stories of the same name and is part of Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" franchise, the fifth theatrical "Winnie the Pooh" film released and the second theatrical "Winnie the Pooh" feature after the 1977 film "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". It is also, to date, Disney
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Fantasia: Music Evolved


act", became a central narrative conceit and "creative inception point" for the team. While visiting the Disney creative teams, the Harmonix team was also inspired by Disneyland's "World of Color" show. "Fantasia: Music Evolved" was unveiled at a press event just prior to Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 as a modern update of Walt Disney's "Fantasia". The game was designed as an interactive successor to the film. The team aimed to contemporize the film by connecting physical movement with music. They chose
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)


glockenspiel making it a common orchestral excerpt for percussion auditions. Dukas also made a transcription for two pianos of this orchestral piece. Although "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was already a popular concert piece, it was brought to a much larger audience through its inclusion, as one of eight animated shorts based on classical music, in the 1940 Walt Disney animated concert film "Fantasia". In the film segment, which retains the title "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", Mickey Mouse plays the role of the apprentice. Disney had
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Fantasia 2000


appear on the DVD release of the film. Work on the film began in 1943, but was shelved. It was later found along with "Destino." "One by One" is a traditionally animated short film directed by Pixote Hunt and released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 31, 2004, as an extra feature on the DVD release of "" Special Edition. "The Little Match Girl" is a 2006 animated short film directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn. It is based on an original
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List of Disney theatrical animated features


This list of theatrical animated feature films consists of animated films produced or released by The Walt Disney Studios, the film division of The Walt Disney Company. The Walt Disney Studios releases films from Disney-owned and non-Disney owned animation studios. Most films listed below are from Walt Disney Animation Studios which began as the feature animation department of Walt Disney Productions, producing its first feature-length animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937 and as of 2018 has produced a total of 57 feature films.
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Metamorphoses (1978 film)


The movie was the between American golden age of Disney-influenced anime and Sanrio's second animated release in the US (following their adaptation of "The Mouse and His Child" the previous year). Over 170 animators, all employed in Hollywood, worked on it for three years. "Metamorphoses" tried to be the rock era's answer to "Fantasia", but its original run was critically reviled and closed as soon as it opened. According to many of its crew, many problems with the production, music
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment


20, 2019 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment under the Buena Vista Home Entertainment name. The Japanese anime movie "Mary and the Witch's Flower" also had a 4K Blu-Ray edition released in its home territory by Walt Disney Studios Japan as part of a Collector's Edition which also included the regular Blu-Ray. It never got a 4K release outside of Japan. The other Japanese-only 4K release so far is "", which was released alongside the Bandai Visual-distributed 4K
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Fantasia (1940 film)


" and "Peter and the Wolf" (from "Make Mine Music") with added narration by Sterling Holloway. "Fantasia" has received three home video releases. The first, featuring the 1990 restored theatrical version, was released on VHS, Betamax and LaserDisc on November 1, 1991, as part of the Walt Disney Classics line. The 50-day release prompted 9.25 million advance orders for cassettes and a record 200,000 for discs, doubling the figure of the previous record. The "Deluxe Edition" package included the film
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Eric Larson


Eric Cleon Larson (September 3, 1905 – October 25, 1988) was an American animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933, and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men". Born in Cleveland, Utah, Larson was the son of Danish immigrants Peter, a clothing salesman, and Nora. He worked on such films as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "The Three Caballeros", "Make Mine Music"
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Mary Blair


and the Tramp", and a second version of "Fantasia" titled "Baby Ballet" which was not released until the late 1990s. After leaving the studio for a short time in 1941, Blair travelled to various South American countries with Walt Disney, Lillian Disney and other artists on a research tour. as part of the Good Neighbor policy of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her watercolors impressed Disney, who appointed her as an art supervisor for the animated feature films "Saludos Amigos" and "The Three Caballeros"
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Carl W. Stalling


and befriended a young Walt Disney, who was producing animated comedy shorts in Kansas City. According to music critic Neil Strauss, the chance meeting between Stalling and Disney in the early 1920s was of great importance to the development of music for animation. Stalling was at his job at the Isis Movie Theatre, demonstrating his ability to combine well-known music by other creators with his own, improvised compositions. Disney stepped into the movie theater and was reportedly impressed with his style. He approached Stalling to introduce himself, and their
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was enough public interest in the "Fantasia" franchise to make a sequel. Eisner finally gave the green-light to the film in 1991 and agreed to have Disney serve as executive producer on the basis that its production was funded by the proceeds from the video sales. Disney assigned Donald W. Ernst as producer and Hendel Butoy as supervisory director having liked his work with "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990). During the search for a suitable conductor, Disney and Walt Disney Feature Animation president Thomas Schumacher invited Metropolitan Opera
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Fantasia (franchise)


along with "Destino". "One by One" is a traditionally animated short film directed by Pixote Hunt and released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 31, 2004, as an extra feature on the DVD release of "" Special Edition. "The Little Matchgirl" is a 2006 animated short film directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn. It is based on an original story by Hans Christian Andersen entitled "The Little Girl with the Matches or The Little Match Girl", published in 1845. "The
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Allegro Non Troppo


Allegro Non Troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Walt Disney's "Fantasia", two of its episodes being derived from the earlier film. The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy. At the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end, there are black and white live-action sequences, displaying the fictional animator, orchestra, conductor and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes
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Toy Story of Terror!


Toy Story of Terror! is a 21-minute computer-animated Halloween television special produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Television Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the Disney Pixar "Toy Story" movies. It is set after the events of "Toy Story 3", and premiered on the American television network ABC on October 16, 2013. It was written and directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy
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The Three Caballeros


The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American live-action animated musical package film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945 and in the UK that March. The seventh Disney animated feature film, the film plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and animation. This is the second of the six package films released by Walt Disney Productions in the 1940s, following
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RKO Pictures


animator Walt Disney (Van Beuren consequently folded its cartoon operations). From 1936 to 1954, RKO distributed features and shorts from Walt Disney, and the studio he founded, before it, itself, became a distributor, with the creation of the Buena Vista Pictures Distribution division of Walt Disney Productions. In its initial release, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), Disney's first feature, was the highest-grossing movie in the period between "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and
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Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)


exhibition of films. Food and drink are not allowed inside. Throughout its history, the theater has also been used for post-production sound mixing. According to the Disney production services website, "The Main Theater is a state-of-the-art digital sound dubbing and screening facility that was first used to mix the sound for "Fantasia" [in 1940]. Sound mixers blend dialogue, music, and sound effects tracks to the various levels appropriate for a movie theater. The acoustics are designed to simulate
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Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi


several international television series, including "Babar" and its feature film adaptation, "" (1989). In 1989, the Brizzis sold their studio to The Walt Disney Company, who first turned the facility into a satellite shop for Walt Disney Television Animation. The Brizzis worked as unit producers on several Disney TV shows and two films based on Disney TV shows, "" (1990) and "A Goofy Movie" (1995). In 1994, Walt Disney Animation France was placed under the Walt Disney Feature Animation
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Winnie the Pooh (franchise)


drama film produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. It is based upon the characters in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books written by A. A. Milne. It is the second in the series of theatrically released Winnie the Pooh films which were not produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, preceded by "The Tigger Movie" (2000) and followed by "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" (2005). The film features songs by Carly Simon. Piglet becomes fed up
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Optical sound


of use in the early 1930s, optical multi-track recording did not have a resurgence for nearly three decades when high fidelity and stereophonic recordings became available commercially. Walt Disney made an attempt in 1940 when he began sound production for "Fantasia" with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Disney set up 33 microphones at the Academy of Music and ran these into eight independently operated mixing stations. The eight tracks were then recorded optically onto 35mm film, with a ninth track adding tempo for Disney's artists to synchronize their animation to the
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Fantasia (1940 film)


patterns on the edge of a piece of sound film. In late 1938 Disney hired Oskar Fischinger, a German artist who had produced numerous abstract animated films, including some with classical music, to work with Young. Upon review of three leica reels produced by the two, Disney rejected all three. According to Huemer all Fishinger "did was little triangles and designs ... it didn't come off at all. Too dinky, Walt said." Fischinger, like Disney, was used to having full control over his work and
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Make Mine Music


Make Mine Music is a 1946 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres on April 20, 1946. It is the 8th Disney animated feature film. During the Second World War, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six
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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)


Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was uncredited in the English version but credited in the French version), and ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau. "Beauty and the Beast" focuses
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Tangled (franchise)


a short sequel, a stage musical, and a television series, as well as a television film. Tangled is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm, it is the 50th Disney animated feature film. Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, the film tells the story of a lost, young princess with
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List of songs featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series


in 2006, by Walt Disney Records and contains selections of music from the movie's score and some albums even never featured music. The music of the film and this album are both credited to composer and producer Hans Zimmer. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End soundtrack, score, recording sessions, remixes are official release soundtrack albums from the film with the same title. The album was released in 2007, by Walt Disney Records and contains selections of music from the movie's score and some albums even never featured
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List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company


O-Gram Studio (1921–23), Disney's first animation studio, which predated the founding of The Walt Disney Company. For example, certain Studio Ghibli films were distributed by Disney internationally but never owned by the company. Also, Miramax, a independently operating unit of the Walt Disney Studios, also purchased US rights to foreign animated movies. In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. TV Animation was transferred to Disney
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