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FANTASIA: Walt Disney's High Art Failure

Matt Draper

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Covering the creation and legacy of Walt Disney's high art failure, Fantasia, discussing how this classical symphony of art came to be, the groundbreaking work that went into making it, what went wrong with its initial release, how this initial failure slowly turned into a success, and what happened to its belated continuation - Fantasia 2000.

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Sources:

“Walt Disney's Fantasia” by John Culhane, 1999

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20 Comments

@MattDraper Creator 2 years ago Pinned

Where would you rank Fantasia in the history of Disney animation?

@JohnTLyon 2 years ago

If this was a failure, it is one of the most beautiful failures in animation.

@ShogunZIlla 2 years ago

Is it perfect? No.
Is it a masterpiece? Yes.

@juansanchez209 2 years ago

Night on Bald Mountain is a masterpiece

@BoyNamedSue4 2 years ago

When I was younger, like 5 or 6, I thought I was so boring. Now as an adult I think it’s a masterpiece. I really wish Disney would start a series on Disney plus of new shorts every couple months to continue its legacy.

@Ashrudel 2 years ago

When I think of Fantasia, I always remember this line from The Man Who Came to Dinner.
""Don't worry about it Walt, Beethoven hasn't had a hit in years."

@FOXZILLA5734 2 years ago (edited)

Fantasia is a masterpiece with its stellar animation, amazing music, and such memorable imagry. This was Walt Disney's passion project which he put everything he had into this film and you feel it, this to me is what Disney truly represents a culmination of creativity and imagination and not the corporate giant we know them as today but in a place of passion.

@theduckcompany 2 years ago

For the amount i mainlined this movie on vhs i would never have known it was a failure.

@connor_who 2 years ago (edited)

I’ll never forget seeing Chernabog in Kingdom Hearts when I was younger and wondering where the hell HE was from. I then discovered both Fantasia and 2000 which had come out a few years prior and it was like slipping into a secret Disney world nobody ever talked about.

@SuperThebillybob 2 years ago

Chernabog still gives me goosebumps to this day. Watching Fantasia as a child, seeing Chernabog float by at night at Disneg World, and fighting him near the end of Kingdom Hearts 1, his sparingly used image is one of Disney's most powerful. Burn all the money and let someone go nuts making Fantasia 3.

@katherinelynch4193 2 years ago

Disney has released a few of the segments for a never-released third Fantasia as standalone shorts; The Little Match Girl is absolutely devastating,

@jrr2480 2 years ago

It won't be long until this movie is in the public domain and being 100 years old.

@yotsubafanfan 2 years ago

My elementary school art teacher put on Fantasia 2000 for us in class one day. I loved it so much that after school I picked it out at blockbuster to show it to my twin sister. We were both mesmerized and in love. To this day it fills me up with joy and warmth of nostalgia.

@MrWill9002 2 years ago

It really is a sin that they stopped doing such masterpieces

@LetsSingTheDoomSong 2 years ago

The freaking volcano eruption segment always terrified me as a kid.

@miriamrosemary9110 2 years ago

Growing up, I watched Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 over and over again. I loved them, and despite struggling to get other friends interested in them, I never grew tired of watching them. Interesting to get some background on them. Good video!

@SpiralDown2077 2 years ago (edited)

I love the unicorns, centaurettes, fairies, dinosaurs, and the ballet, and the mount demon playing with the little fire people.

@chelmrtz 2 years ago

Dance of the Hours is so underrated among all the fantasía segments. It’s silly and fun without being too much

@spongebobcoolduke1537 2 years ago

Fantasia 2000 is an underrated classic that deserves more recognition

@melinewaller1129 2 years ago

When I was a senior in high school I was taking AP art and we did a Saturday class to work on our portfolios. Our teacher put on Fantasia figuring it would be good background music and some inspiring art. We were all so mesmerized that we weren’t working on our art and she had to turn it off