Fantasia (movie)
| Fantasia | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Leopold Stokowski Deems Taylor The Philadelphia Orchestra Walt Disney (voice) |
Production company | |
| 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[change | change source]
| 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[change | change source]
- Fantasia on IMDb
- Fantasia at AllMovie
- Fantasia at AllMovie
- Fantasia at Rotten Tomatoes
- Fantasia at Box Office Mojo
- Fantasia at the Big Cartoon DataBase
