Walt Disney's Fantasia Pt. 4
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael and Craig discuss the final two segments in Fantasia - Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria - as well as the film's legacy.
Links:
- Michael’s Disneyland History Segments
- Important DIS links and more information!
- Connecting with Walt on Twitter
Books/Magazines:
- Walt Disney’s Fantasia by John Culhane
- The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies 1921-1968, Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte
- Walt Disney’s Fantasia by Deems Taylor
- The original Fantasia film program
Websites/Articles:
- The Making of Fantasia: Disney’s Masterpiece, Houston Symphony
- The Disney Wiki: Fantasia
- Walt Disney’s Fantasia: JustDisney.com
- “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”: The Genesis of “Fantasia” by Jay Gabler for Your Classical
- Fifteen Fascinating Facts about Fantasia, D23.com
- “Fantasia”: Walt Disney’s Pioneering Classic by Jamie Atkins
- The Untold Truth of Disney’s Fantasia by Sarah Buddery
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom to Kingdom, you're listening to the Connecting with Walt is brought to you by Dreams and Limited Travel. |
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| 0:45.8 | quote today for your next dream vacation at dreamsunlimited travel.com. Hey there, hi, there, and welcome |
| 0:53.8 | in episode 288 of connecting with Walt. |
| 0:58.4 | I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling. |
| 1:01.5 | I am joined by my co-host, executive producer, and good friend Craig Williams. |
| 1:07.4 | Craig, how are you today? |
| 1:09.2 | I am doing fantasiaistic. Just going a new word or phrase. |
| 1:15.3 | A new word. I like that. I'm surprised with all the innovative things they've done with Fantasia. They didn't somehow use that word. |
| 1:23.8 | You know, I just, maybe that's how they got the name for Fantasia was through Fantastic. |
| 1:30.1 | Who know? |
| 1:30.5 | We'll never know, unless we already covered that on this episode. |
| 1:34.2 | About Fantasmic? |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.4 | I think, I think on one of the Disneyland shows we talked about when we were doing the 60 years of Disneyland and we talked about Fantasmic. |
| 1:45.2 | I think we talked about how they came up with that name. |
| 1:49.2 | Well, we'll have to go back to it one day. |
| 1:51.8 | I know, because I don't remember. |
| 1:56.1 | Anyway, well, we're making our final pitch this week for the Q&A show. |
| 2:01.5 | So do you want to give the cutoff date and all the rules and regulations? |
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