(Leonard Maltin reads the clue.)  A chance meeting with Leopold Stokowski led Walt to hire him for a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" short; Stokowski prodded him into making a longer film, this 1940 epic
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Jerry Rees on the short film, Back to Neverland while also meeting Robin 
Williams ...... work has influenced and inspired the Walt Disney Studios for 
decades.