(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
[DOC] [TLE] Fantasia (1942) - Notes - TCM.com [PAR] Notes about Fantasia, 1942, directed by Joe Grant, with Leopold Stokowski, The 
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