Fantasia (movie)

Fantasia
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Leopold Stokowski Deems Taylor The Philadelphia Orchestra Walt Disney (voice)
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date	February 29, 1940
Running time	124 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$2,280,000 (est.)
Box office	$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 Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. It tells the story of life on Earth until the extinction of the dinosaurs. Another famous work that appears in the movie is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ. One segment, "The Pastoral Symphony", which was themed around Greek mythology, was changed to get rid of centaurs who were thought to be racist stereotypes of Black people.

A sequel to this movie, Fantasia 2000, was released in 1999.

Release Dates

Country	Premiere
United States	February 29, 1940
Brazil	December 25, 1940
United Kingdom	July 21, 1941
Uruguay	September 11, 1941
Mexico	December 25, 1941
Portugal	March 16, 1942
Ireland	April 3, 1942
Greece	April 10, 1942
Sweden	October 7, 1942
- Argentinian in Chilean Spanish	December 11, 1942 (Fantasía)
Iceland	February 28, 1946
Spain	March 23, 1946
Italy	April 12, 1946
Canada	August 1, 1946
Czechoslovakia	December 17, 1946
Hong Kong	October 16, 1947
Norway	October 31, 1948
Bulgaria	December 25, 1948
Switzerland	December 25, 1948 (German speaking region)
Soviet Union	December 25, 1948
Yugoslavia	July 31, 1949
Finland	November 4, 1949
Poland	August 7, 1950
Austria	January 12, 1951
Denmark	April 2, 1951
West Germany	October 10, 1952
Thailand	June 13, 1953
Belgium	August 14, 1953
India	December 25, 1953
Turkey	August 15, 1954
Japan	September 23, 1955
South Korea	October 3, 1955
Malta	July 31, 1959
New Zealand	June 29, 1961
South Africa	June 29, 1961
Lebanon	December 25, 1967
Iran	March 16, 1974
Morocco	March 16, 1974
Egypt	March 26, 1974
Indonesia	June 17, 1974
Qatar	June 17, 1974
Singapore	June 17, 1974
Sri Lanka	April 26, 1985
Kuwait	June 4, 1986
Israel	November 8, 1991

Other websites

• Fantasia on IMDb
• Fantasia at AllMovie
• Fantasia at AllMovie
• Fantasia at Rotten Tomatoes
• Fantasia at Box Office Mojo
• Fantasia at the Big Cartoon DataBase