1 00:00:54,350 --> 00:00:56,450 How do you do? 2 00:00:56,550 --> 00:00:59,350 It's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here... 3 00:00:59,350 --> 00:01:03,650 ...on behalf of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski and all the other artists... 4 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:08,650 ...and musicians whose combined talents went into the creation of this new form of entertainment... 5 00:01:08,750 --> 00:01:12,250 ..."Fantasia" 6 00:01:12,350 --> 00:01:16,350 What you are going to see, are the designs and pictures and stories... 7 00:01:16,350 --> 00:01:20,350 ...that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists. 8 00:01:21,950 --> 00:01:25,950 In other words they're not going to be the interpretations of trained musicians. 9 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:28,350 Which I think is all to the good. 10 00:01:28,350 --> 00:01:34,050 So now we present the "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach... 11 00:01:34,150 --> 00:01:37,550 ...interpreted in pictures by Walt Disney and his associates... 12 00:01:37,550 --> 00:01:43,550 ...and the music by the Philadelphia Orchestra and its conductor Leopold Stokowski. 13 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:12,050 You know it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work. 14 00:11:12,150 --> 00:11:17,350 Now, the one composition of Tchaikovsky's that he really detested was his Nutcracker suite. 15 00:11:17,350 --> 00:11:19,750 Which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote. 16 00:11:19,750 --> 00:11:23,350 Incidentally, you won't see any nutcracker on the screen. 17 00:11:23,350 --> 00:11:27,350 There is nothing like to him but the title. 18 00:25:21,350 --> 00:25:25,250 And now we are going to hear a piece of music that tells a very definite story. 19 00:25:25,350 --> 00:25:29,150 It's a very old story, one that goes back almost 2000 years. 20 00:25:29,150 --> 00:25:32,750 A legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice. 21 00:25:32,750 --> 00:25:35,850 He was a bright young lad, very anxious to learn the business. 22 00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:38,450 As a matter of fact, he was a little bit too bright... 23 00:25:38,550 --> 00:25:42,450 ...because he started practising some of the boss's best magic tricks... 24 00:25:42,550 --> 00:25:44,750 ...before learning how to control them. 25 00:34:42,950 --> 00:34:46,950 Mister Stokowski, Mister Stokowski... 26 00:34:48,550 --> 00:34:51,450 My congratulations, sir. 27 00:34:51,550 --> 00:34:55,550 - Congratulations to you, Mickey. - Gee, thanks. 28 00:34:55,950 --> 00:34:57,450 Well, so long! 29 00:34:57,550 --> 00:35:00,050 I'll be seeing you. 30 00:35:00,150 --> 00:35:04,150 Good-bye. 31 00:35:07,350 --> 00:35:10,950 When Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet "The Rite of Spring"... 32 00:35:10,950 --> 00:35:14,150 ...his purpose was in his own words to express primitive life. 33 00:35:14,150 --> 00:35:18,050 And so Walt Disney and his fellow artists have taken the man's word. 34 00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:20,750 Instead of presenting the ballet in its original form... 35 00:35:20,750 --> 00:35:25,250 ...as a simple series of tribal dances, they've visualised it as a Pageant. 36 00:35:25,350 --> 00:35:28,350 As the story of the growth of life on earth. 37 00:35:28,350 --> 00:35:31,250 It's a coldly accurate reproduction, of what science thinks... 38 00:35:31,350 --> 00:35:35,350 ...went on during the first few billion years of this planet's existence. 39 00:35:35,350 --> 00:35:41,250 So now, imagine yourselves out in space, billions and billions of years ago... 40 00:35:41,350 --> 00:35:44,650 ...looking down on this lonely, tormented little planet... 41 00:35:44,750 --> 00:35:48,750 ...spinning through an empty sea of nothingness. 42 00:58:46,050 --> 00:58:48,250 Before we get into the second half of the program... 43 00:58:48,250 --> 00:58:50,650 ...I'd like to introduce somebody to you. 44 00:58:50,650 --> 00:58:53,750 Somebody who is very important to Fantasia. 45 00:58:53,750 --> 00:58:56,050 He is very shy and very retiring. 46 00:58:56,050 --> 00:58:59,450 I just happened to run accross him one day at the Disney Studios. 47 00:58:59,450 --> 00:59:04,950 But when I did I suddenly realized that he was not only an indispensable member of the organization... 48 00:59:04,950 --> 00:59:06,750 ...but a screen personality. 49 00:59:06,750 --> 00:59:10,050 And so I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce to you... 50 00:59:10,050 --> 00:59:13,150 ...the Soundtrack. 51 00:59:13,150 --> 00:59:17,150 All right, come on. That's all right. Don't be timid. 52 00:59:19,550 --> 00:59:21,350 And a Soundtrack. 53 00:59:21,350 --> 00:59:24,650 Now watching him, I discovered that every beautiful sound also created... 54 00:59:24,650 --> 00:59:26,650 ...equally beautiful picture. 55 00:59:26,650 --> 00:59:30,650 Now look, the Soundtrack kindly produces a sound. 56 00:59:31,150 --> 00:59:35,150 Go on! Don't be nervous. Go ahead! Any sound. 57 00:59:37,350 --> 00:59:41,350 Well, that isn't quite what I had in mind. 58 00:59:41,850 --> 00:59:45,850 I suppose we hear and see the harp. 59 01:00:03,350 --> 01:00:07,350 Now one of the strings, say the uhmm, the violin. 60 01:00:28,350 --> 01:00:32,350 And now... Now one of the woodwinds. A flute. 61 01:00:37,950 --> 01:00:41,950 Very pretty. Now let's have a brass instrument- the trumpet. 62 01:00:59,050 --> 01:01:03,050 All right. Now, how about a low instrument? The bassoon. 63 01:01:11,050 --> 01:01:15,050 Go on. Go on, drop the other shoe, will you? 64 01:01:19,550 --> 01:01:23,150 Now to finish, suppose we see some of the percussion instruments. 65 01:01:23,150 --> 01:01:27,150 Beginning with the base drum. 66 01:01:49,150 --> 01:01:51,850 Thanks a lot old man. 67 01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:58,450 The symphony that Beethoven called "The Pastoral" is said, is one of the few pieces of music... 68 01:01:58,450 --> 01:02:01,050 ...he ever wrote that tells something like a definite story. 69 01:02:01,050 --> 01:02:04,150 He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony... 70 01:02:04,150 --> 01:02:07,250 he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. 71 01:02:07,250 --> 01:02:11,250 Now of course, the country that Beethoven described was the countryside with which he was familiar. 72 01:02:11,850 --> 01:02:14,650 But his music covers a much wider field than that. 73 01:02:14,650 --> 01:02:18,650 And so Walt Disney has given the Pastoral Symphony a mythological setting. 74 01:23:39,650 --> 01:23:43,550 Now we are going to do one of the most famous and popular ballets ever written. 75 01:23:43,550 --> 01:23:47,150 "The Dance of the Hours" from Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda". 76 01:23:47,150 --> 01:23:49,350 It's a pageant of the hours of the day. 77 01:23:49,350 --> 01:23:53,050 All this takes place in the great hall with its garden beyond... 78 01:23:53,050 --> 01:23:57,050 ...of the palace of Duke Alvise, a Venetian nobleman. 79 01:35:50,250 --> 01:35:54,750 The last number on our "Fantasia" program is a combination of two pieces of music... 80 01:35:54,750 --> 01:36:00,450 ...so utterly different in construction and mood that they set each other out perfectly. 81 01:36:00,450 --> 01:36:04,750 The first is "A Night on Bald Mountain" by one of Russia's greatest composers... 82 01:36:04,750 --> 01:36:06,650 ...Modeste Moussorgsky. 83 01:36:06,650 --> 01:36:10,650 The second is Franz Schubert's world famous "Ave Maria." 84 01:36:10,650 --> 01:36:13,950 Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle... 85 01:36:13,950 --> 01:36:17,950 ...between the profane and the sacred.