oh fantasia is one of my favorites, too. there are parts of it that i don't love as much now (the cutesy flying horses and nymphs in the beethoven) and there are a lot of negative opinions over the years. stravinsky absolutely HATED it, yensid cut parts of 'rite' even... and composers do NOT like that! lots of comments about 'trivializing classical music' etc.
but it's a brilliant movie. there finally is a sequel, 'fantasia 2000' which is absolutely worth a look. the best sequence is gershwin's 'rhapsody in blue' animated in the style of al hirschorn, the great broadway cariacaturist. another great segment is donald and daisy as noah and wife with the ark. one called flamingos with yoyos that's almost funnier than hippos and gators. patrick np - echo (joy askew and takura nakamura) - surrender >-----Original Message----- The next selection, Tschiakovsky's "Nutcracker >Suite", is "performed" by dancing wood-sprites, mushrooms, flowers, >goldfish, thistles, milkweeds and "frost fairies". The Mickey Mouse version >of "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is next, followed by Stravinsky's "Rite of >Spring", which serves as leitmotif for the story of the creation of the >world, replete with dinosaurs and volcanoes. After
