Fantasia (movie)

Fantasia
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Leopold Stokowski; Deems Taylor; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Walt Disney (voice)
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s)	February 29, 1940
Running time	124 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$2,280,000 (est.)
Money made	$76,408,097

Fantasia is the third animated movie produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was first released on February 29, 1940. It was originally released by itself instead of RKO Pictures, which was the distributor of Disney from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, until Peter Pan.

Fantasia contains eight classical music pieces. One of them is from Igor Stavinski's The Rite of Spring. It tells the story of life on Earth until the extinction of the dinosaurs. In Fantasia.

Fantasia 2000 (1999), a sequel to this movie, was released on December 17, 1999 in New York.

Release Dates[change | change source]

Country	Premiere
Brazil	25 December 1940
United Kingdom	21 July 1941
Uruguay	11 September 1941
Mexico	25 December 1941
Portugal	16 March 1942
Ireland	3 April 1942
Greece	10 April 1942
Sweden	7 October 1942
Iceland	28 February 1946
Spain	23 March 1946
Italy	12 April 1946
Canada	1 August 1946
Czechoslovakia	17 December 1946
Hong Kong	16 October 1947
Norway	31 October 1948
Bulgaria	25 December 1948
Switzerland	25 December 1948 (German speaking region)
Soviet Union	25 December 1948
Yugoslavia	31 July 1949
Finland	4 November 1949
Poland	7 August 1950
Austria	12 January 1951
Denmark	2 April 1951
West Germany	10 October 1952
Thailand	13 June 1953
Belgium	14 August 1953
India	25 December 1953
Turkey	15 August 1954
Japan	23 September 1955
South Korea	3 October 1955
Malta	31 July 1959
New Zealand	29 June 1961
South Africa	29 June 1961
Lebanon	25 December 1967
Iran	16 March 1974
Morocco	16 March 1974
Egypt	26 March 1974
Indonesia	17 June 1974
Qatar	17 June 1974
Singapore	17 June 1974
Sri Lanka	26 April 1985
Kuwait	4 June 1986