ABC originally broadcast this episode in black and white. This has led to the popular assumption that many of our silent classic films were in black and white, when in fact originally they were often elaborately tinted and toned. Why was this? Sleeping Beauty (clips shown to help promote the movie) Trivia. In ”Fantasia,” Disney chose to omit dialogue from the animated feature in favor of famous classical music pieces composed by the greats. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, perhaps the most famous short of the film Fantasia, starred Mickey Mouse as the, er, Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fantasia on Blu-ray looks better than seven sharps in a key signature. Update: I am not talking about computers, or CGI films. Projected in rapid succession these created the … 12. Image/Sound. "Fantasia" would easily qualify as one of the films I would be most interested in learning more about the making behind. “The answer is, of course, that it could not be done at any cost in black and white, and I think that points to the general answer. The transfers are uniformly wonderful, each containing little imperfections and retaining good detail for such old material. In 1937, Disney's innovative first full length animated feature, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, was released to critical acclaim and worldwide success. This time on Original vs. Remake, I'm comparing the two versions of Disney's classical music features. All is displayed in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, which is the original framing for each feature. Fantasia was Walt Disney's third feature film, following on from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Pinocchio (1940) Fact Two. There is a cartoon short that is actually a live-action animated piece called "Alice's Day at Sea." According to Disney archivist David Smith, the sequence was aired uncut on television in 1963 before the edits were made for the film's 1969 theatrical reissue. Fantasia (The shots of the orchestra playing at the premiere of Tchaikovsky's ballet "The sleeping Beauty" are taken from the "Toccata and Fugue" segment of "Fantasia".) Walt Disney actually produced two … This was the first Walt Disney animated classic to be released on videocassette. Technicolor originally existed in a two-color (red and green) system.In Process 1 (1916), a prism beam-splitter behind the camera lens exposed two consecutive frames of a single strip of black-and-white negative film simultaneously, one behind a red filter, the other behind a green filter. There are two “exotic” black zebra centaurettes in the third part of the pastoral symphony, and just think about the implications of the fact that the centaurettes pair up with the centaurs based on the color of their skin and fur… oof. I mean regular film, like as in the mid-twentieth century, when film was first able to capture color. If Fantasia’s collar was a little too starched, Fantasia 2000 is like an orchestra packing the house with its annual pops concert. A black centaurette called Sunflower was depicted polishing the hooves of a white centaurette, and a second name Otika appeared briefly during the procession scenes with Bacchus and his followers. No, the 1940 film was very definitely a color film. Billed as “The Ultimate Experience,” Fantasia was successfully promoted with this 1969 psychedelic poster to teenagers and college students who had turned on to films such as the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine (1968). The 1940 original was Disney's third feature-length animated movie, but considered by many to be one of the best.