Summary of Pegasus and Its Babies From Fantasia

The greatest classical symphony music video e'er made.

What y'all're going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists.

— Deems Taylor

Fantasia is a 1940 animated flick from Walt Disney collaborating with celebrated usher Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and the 3rd entry in the Disney Blithe Canon. It'south a surreal, yet classic blend of animation and Classical Music, often considered to take been ahead of its time back in the twenty-four hours. Another style to depict it every bit is Silly Symphonies: The Movie.

The film consists of animated sequences synchronized to classic pieces of music. They are as follows:

• Toccata and Fugue in D modest, attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. This sequence features abstruse images, shapes and forms moving in time to the music.
• The Nutcracker Suite, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Surprisingly, this features no characters from the Nutcracker ballet, ^note As host Deems Taylor points out, "Incidentally, uh, yous won't run across any 'nutcracker' on the screen; there'south nothing left of him but the title." simply original sequences based on the Seasons featuring dancing fairies, fish, flowers, leaves, and even mushrooms (non a samba, even so).
• The Sorcerer'south Apprentice, composed by Paul Dukas. The well-nigh famous scene in the entire flick. This sequence features Mickey Mouse every bit a sorcerer's amateur, who borrows his master's enchanted hat and decides to endeavour out its powers. He finds out, notwithstanding, that the magic is a lilliputian too much for him to handle.
• The Rite of Spring, composed past Igor Stravinsky. This sequence showcases the evolution of life on Globe, from the germination of the planet to the extinction of the dinosaurs, co-ordinate to the theories of the time.
• The Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 6), equanimous by Ludwig van Beethoven. During this part of the film, mythical creatures such every bit centaurs, cupids, satyrs, unicorns, and Pegasi prance around, and attend a festival for the god Bacchus/Dionysus, just to have it interrupted by Jupiter/Zeus and Vulcan/Hephaestus.
• Trip the light fantastic toe of the Hours, equanimous past Amilcare Ponchielli. In this comedic sequence, ballet-dancing anthropomorphic animals (ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators), representing the times of 24-hour interval (forenoon, noon, evening and night) dance in fourth dimension to the music in a loose adaptation of its original ballet, La Gioconda.
• Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria, equanimous by Modest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert, respectively. The commencement half of this sequence is probably the most frightening sequence in Disney animation, featuring Chernabog (who is substantially the Devil, instead of an bodily Slavic Pagan deity ^note In the moving-picture show the character is more than or less explicitly identified as Satan; he only started beingness called "Chernabog" decades later for business reasons. The give-and-take "chernabog" in Russian literally means "Black God" ) raising the expressionless from the grave. The sequence leads to a contrasting sequence to the calm tune of Ave Maria, featuring a procession of pilgrims walking through a wood with the rocks and copse evoking a cathedral, to witness the dawn.

A sequel was made in 1999: Fantasia 2000. ^notation Aye, the picture called Fantasia 2000 was released in the year 1999. Unlike about Disney sequels, this one was actually in accordance with Walt Disney's intent; the original idea was to update the film every year, animating one or ii new songs every fourth dimension and rotating older ones out of the print to make room for the fresh material. In addition, the prestige of existence in a Fantasia film meant that Disney had no trouble lining up celebrities to introduce the various sections of pic.

Disney had once planned an international-themed follow-up to Fantasia called Musicana. This would have entailed various shorts from various countries with the music styles of those countries. Information technology was ultimately shelved.

Sequences proposed for this film included:

• A sequence about jazz in the Deep Southward that would have a jazz party where all the audition and performers were frogs, including caricatures of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, with the party getting interrupted at the finish past a river boat passing through.
• A sequence set in the Andes to the songs of Yma Sumac themed around the sociology of the Aztecs and Incas.
• An African sequence that told the story of a monkey who stole a diamond from the African rain god.
• A retelling of The Emperor's Nightingale that featured Mickey in the role of the nightingale's possessor; he would have taught the emperor the value of the nightingale versus its mechanical counterpart.
• A sequence set to Sibelius' Finlandia that told a story of a boxing between an ice god and a sun goddess, their conflict shaping the Scandinavian landscape.
• An blithe rendition of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves with the characters depicted as various exotic birds, set to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherezade.

Disney later planned some other international-themed follow-up, called Fantasia/2006, and later Fantasia Earth. Later on the cancellation of its theatrical release, some of the completed shorts received limited or direct-to-video releases. In 2010, Walt Disney Home Video announced plans to include the characteristic on the Fantasia Special Edition ^* referred to in early on press materials as either a Platinum Edition or a Diamond Edition instead 2-Moving picture Drove Blu-Ray, but by the time the Collection reached stores, they decided to only include 1 short.

The sequences prepared for this i include:

• Destino, composed past Armando Dominguez. The long-awaited result of a collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, this brusque depicts Dahlia, a woman dancing her way through Dalí-inspired environments and the doomed beloved the god Chronos has for her. Premiered at a 2003 French film festival, and became available to own on the Fantasia Blu-Ray drove.
• The Little Match Daughter (Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, equanimous by Alexander Borodin). Disney relocates the Hans Christian Andersen story to Russia, merely otherwise adapts it to a surprisingly faithful extent. Premiered at a 2006 French film festival, and included on the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD and 2013 Diamond Edition Blu-ray of The Little Mermaid (another Disney-produced accommodation of an Andersen story) as well as the 2015 Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection.
• One Past One, composed by Lebo M. This short features South African children preparing and flight colorful kites to the accompaniment of a re-written version of a song initially included on the The Lion King spin-off anthology Rhythm of the Pride Lands (and later used as the entr'acte number in the musical). Included on the 2004 Special Edition DVD and 2011 Special Edition Blu-ray of The Lion King Ii: Simba's Pride.
• Lorenzo, (Bordoneo y 900, composed by Osvaldo Ruggiero, arranged past Juan Jose Mosalini.) A cat is jinxed into having a tail with a separate personality. Premiered during the theatrical release of the 2004 Kate Hudson movie Raising Helen, and released on Blu-ray and DVD as function of the August 2015 Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Drove.

A platform game for the Sega Genesis loosely based on the first movie was released on 1991, though it's widely regarded equally mediocre at best. A 2014 rhythm music game by Harmonix, Fantasia: Music Evolved has been released for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Yen Sid is also a major grapheme in the Kingdom Hearts and Ballsy Mickey series.

In 2010, "The Magician's Apprentice" sequence was expanded into an In Proper noun Only live-activeness fantasy run a risk film starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel aptly named...The Sorcerer's Apprentice. A Live-Action Accommodation of "Night On Baldheaded Mountain" sequence was put in development, being written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless the creative team behind Dracula Untold, only information technology was later scrapped.

Not to be confused with the American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino, or the name of the fantasy world in the motion-picture show version of The Neverending Story, or with Tales of Phantasia.

Compare later Disney films Brand Mine Music and Melody Time which both feature music-based shorts, even using a few of the unused ideas from Fantasia. Contrast Allegro not Troppo, the 1977 Bruno Bozzetto answer to Fantasia, which hovers comfortably somewhere between Affectionate Parody and Take That! (and is just equally breathtakingly beautiful). Compare also the 1943 Merrie Melodies short A Corny Concerto, also an Affectionate Parody of Fantasia.

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    Both films provide examples of

• second Visuals, 3D Effects: Or rather, Conspicuous Live-Action. The snowflakes at the very end of the "Nutcracker" segment were really filmed in alive-action with the animated sprites composited on tiptop of them, evoking the same kind of jarring contrast.
  • The sequel took advantage of all the irresolute technologies that occurred since the original by blending traditional animation with CG, nigh noticeable in the "Pines of Rome" when the 3D whales get against the 2d seagulls, or in "Pianoforte Concerto No. 2" with the 3D tin can soldier going against 2nd sewer rats.
• Astonishing Technicolor Population:
  • Rhapsody in Blue does this to everyone no matter their race, keeping with the cool tones of the style. This likewise applies in "Pastoral Symphony" for everyone, notably the centaurs.
  • In the original theatrical release, there was a centaur named Sunflower, with glossy black donkey parts, brown human parts, and a stereotypical blackface head. Her function was to serve the others — polishing their hooves, bringing them refreshments, and and so on. She was removed from theatrical rereleases after 1969 and is missing from home video releases.
• Animal Gender-Bender:
  • Pomp and Circumstance seems to feature two male ostriches existence led into the Noah's Ark.
  • The Male-colored ostriches in "Dance of the Hours" were plainly intended to be female person.
• Animation Bump: Both are considered this for Disney. The 1940 version included dynamic backgrounds, color shifts, changes in lighting, translucent paints and numerous effects shots that had simply never been done before (lightning, waves, stars, lava, earthquakes). The 2000 version had combination of traditional animation and CGI (that was actually started back before production on Toy Story began), every bit well as watercolor cells for the Carnival of Animals and pastel backgrounds in Beethoven'due south 5th.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy:
  • Mainly the centaurettes and the cherubs in the "Pastoral" Symphony.
  • The forest sprite in the Firebird segment. It'due south entirely possible that this grapheme doesn't even have a sex.
  • Averted past the Succubi in Night On Bald Mountain. Then there'south the shots of the flight harpies.
• Creepy Good: Yen Sid the sorcerer actually looks pretty sinister. But come on, if Mickey Mouse is willing to be his apprentice he tin can't possibly be a bad guy.

• Dangerously Garish Surround: To some extent, Baldheaded Mountain. At the climax of the infernal festivities, numerous demonic minions dance maniacally against rainbow-colored flames from hell, with some fifty-fifty mutated by Chernabog himself or existence fix on fire alive for his entertainment.
• Eldritch Abomination: Chernabog from the original; the Firebird from the sequel may as well qualify. Chernabog, if interpreted equally evil, is an identifiable evil, motivated by sadism and boredom. The Firebird, nonetheless, is a force of nature; information technology is nigh-incomprehensible in motives, but laying waste material to everything in front of it. Of course, as a fire spirit, it is in burn down's nature to burn and destroy.
• Episode Discussion Scene: Each of the ii films brainstorm in live-action with the conductor explaining the premise and structure of the film: a series of animated shorts set to classical music.
• Evil Is Called-for Hot: Chernabog covers himself in fire near the end of Dark on Baldheaded Mountain. The Firebird may as well qualify, as it is a subversive force.
• Glowing Optics of Doom: Both movies characteristic a monstrous grapheme with glowing eyes: the first movie has the Satanic Archetype Chernabog, the second one has the Firebird, the personification of a volcano.
• The Great Flood:
  • The Rite of Spring segment actually ends with the entire Earth being flooded by a massive tidal wave caused past a solar eclipse.
  • Retold in Fantasia 2000 in the re-imagined "Noah'southward Ark" adaptation of Pomp and Circumstance.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Hyacinth Hippo and Ben Ali Gator in the "Dance of the Hours" segment.
  • Also implied between the elk and the forest sprite in the Firebird segment.
• Leitmotif: Done retroactively with some of the narrative segments.
• Mickey Mousing: Done in opposite - all animation in the brusk was created to match existing pieces of classical music.
• Mime and Music-Only Drawing: None of the shorts feature any dialogue, or even audio effects for that matter - it's merely music and animation. The just ones talking are the narrators introducing the shorts.
• Mind Spiral: Many examples throughout the picture.
  • The Toccata and Fugue in D minor sequence combines this with Disney Acid Sequence. It is an abstract shorts with only colors and shapes, and null plot.
  • "Destino". A given since one of its creators was Salvador Dalí.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • In the last sequence of the original Fantasia the whole "undead being raised" matter in Night on Bald Mountain ends with churchgoers singing Ave Maria in a sharp contrast to the kickoff part of the segment.
  • In Fantasia 2000 the sense of humour in Rhapsody in Bluish is interspersed with scenes that remind you that information technology takes place during the thirties, which can be a bit depressing.
  • Pomp and Circumstance does this a few times where it starts off with a hilarious slapstick sequence where Donald tries to get the animals to board the send, but changes to sad when Donald and Daisy both retrieve the other was killed in the flood, then goes back once again to slapstick.
  • The Firebird Suite begins with sugariness, gentle lilting music as the Sprite awakens, greets the new day with her animal companion, and begins spreading the growth of spring; switches to trepidation and unease as she discovers the dormant volcano, only to explode into total-out nighmarish horror when she unwittingly releases the Firebird which destroys her home; and then after a deeply sorrowful My God, What Accept I Washed? moment, returns to celebration, joy, and awe equally she draws upon her powers stronger than always to completely restore the land.
• No Proper name Given: In many of the numbers with original characters, the main characters' names are never mentioned in the movie, just according to Word of God, they do take names.
  • For example, in Rhapsody in Blue they are, in order of advent: Duke, Jobless Joe, Rachel, and John. Rachel and John are named after Eric Goldberg's youngest daughter and animation historian John Culhane, respectively.
  • The same goes for Carnival of the Animals, where the yo-yo playing flamingo is called "Our Hero" and the other flamingos are named "The Snotty Half dozen."
  • The little mushroom in The Nutcracker Suite is named Hop Low.
  • The leads in Trip the light fantastic toe of the Hours are Madamoiselle Upanova (ostrich), Hyacinth Hippo, Elephanchine, ^notation A nod to famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine and Ben Ali Gator.
  • In The Wizard'due south Apprentice the eponymous wizard is called Yen Sid.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Some of the sequences in the original. The intro to the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment brings upwards this trope besides.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: The point was to introduce children to non only to classical music, but to mail service-modernism as well.
  • Averted with Rhapsody In Blue, which they had to get permission from the Gershwin estate to use. They probably didn't accept much difficulty.
  • Averted with The Rite of Spring, as Igor Stravinsky was still alive at the time of the 1940 film's production, and the evolution team had to go permission from him, also without any difficulty.
• Cherry-red Eyes, Take Alarm: The T-Rex in Rite of Spring has devilish ones, as practise the Sewer Rats in "Steadfast Tin can Soldier."
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Mickey shaking hands with Leopold Stokowski, and in the sequel, adjusting James Levine'due south lapel.
• Scare Chord: Built into some of the pieces, and taken full advantage of past the animators.
• Scenery Porn:
  • Most of the sequences in both movies, with Firebird and Pines of Rome showing some especially stunning backgrounds.
  • Even for the 40s, many pieces, even the deleted "Clair de Lune", had cute backgrounds.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Firebird (well, maybe sleeping evil). More than so with the "Cutterflies" in the 5th Symphony. Chernabog is sealed in a timed can, since he gets permit out of the peak of Bald Mount once a year on St. John's Eve. ^note (Which in the Russian Orthodox agenda is July 6th.)

    The original 1940 film contains examples of

• Adaptation Dye-Job: The introduction to the Pastoral makes reference to "Pegasus and his family." The traditionally white Pegasus is instead portrayed equally black with the white coloration going to his mate.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: The ostriches, hippos and elephants flirt a bit with the gators, despite the implication the gators desire to consume them.
• All In that location in the Transmission: A lot of the characters' names are only known from supplementary material: namely Jackus the donkey/unicorn, Yen Sid the sorcerer, all the named characters in Dance of the Hours, and Chernobog (unless he is, equally Deems Taylor identifies him, Satan after all.)
• Arcadia: The Pastoral Symphony was composed past Beethoven as a love alphabetic character to the countryside of central Europe. Fantasia transplants the setting to an ancient Greece populated by satyrs, centaurs, cherubs, pegasi, unicorns, and deities, but it is still set in an idyllic countryside of meadows, forests, streams, and lakes.
• Anachronistic Animate being: The moving-picture show features a Dimetrodon, a creature that lived before dinosaurs evolved. The famous fight between the Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex is another example, given that the T. rex and Triceratops (which is also present in the sequence) existed in the Cretaceous, millions of years subsequently the Stegosaurus (in fact, the T. Rex lived closer to today than it did to when Stegosaurus did).
• Ancient Grome: The Pastoral Symphony sequence shamelessly muddles together Greek and Roman mythology. Deems Taylor's introduction names Zeus and Artemis alongside Bacchus and Vulcan (Dionysus & Hephaestus, respectively).
• Aquatic Hadrosaurs: The "Rite of Jump" segment from features several species of hadrosaurs, namely Parasaurolophus, Corythosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Kritosaurus. They are depicted every bit swamp animals feeding on aquatic plants and run away in the water when a T. king approaches.
• Aquatic Sauropods: In "The Rite of Spring", sauropods are depicted every bit living in swampy environments and eating aquatic plants. Notably, the Brachiosaurus are shown completely submerging themselves in the water to escape from the T. male monarch.
• Art Development: Freddy Moore completely redesigned the Mickey model sail for this film (particularly changing the eyes), giving the appearance that is nevertheless used today.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • The ostriches in the "Dance of the Hours" sequence are supposed to be female...but the plume is that of a male ostrich. Female ostriches are brown.
  • A flagellate protozoa in an early office of the Rite of Spring sequence is shown using its flagellum as a feeler rather than a propulsion organ. The animator may have only looked at microscopic still photos, though.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Rite of Spring, filled with Stock Dinosaurs (including the T. rex) of different Mesozoic periods and sometimes-questionable anatomy. In fact, Tyrannosaurus lived closer to when humans live today than he did to when Stegosaurus lived. Co-ordinate to commentary on the Blu-Ray release, the fight was originally to have betwixt the T. rex and a Triceratops, but the Stegosaurus was switched in as the animators felt the thagomizer would make the battle more interesting. Going by the 1940s agreement of dinosaurs, however, it'south pretty accurate (apart of grade from the Anachronism Stew)—in fact, the "T. rex" was drawn with three fingers, making it look more than similar an Allosaurus, which did alive in the Jurassic alongside Stegosaurus. On the other hand, it is too bulky and lacks the forehead horns Allosaurus is also known for having. There is also a glimpse of the vastly out of identify Dimetrodon, a synapsid ^note The dinosaurs were sauropsids; the synapsids were the grouping of amniotes that eventually gave rise to mammals, the simply living members of the clade. living a expert 100 million years before the dinosaurs evolved. But this beast has a trend to be mashed upward with dinosaurs anyway.
  • In 1955, an educational version of the Rite of Spring segment was made for the Disneyland TV serial, with narration providing authentic (well, accurate for the fourth dimension) facts virtually the animals in it. The opening to it states that "in the interest of dramatic storytelling, sure liberties have been taken with chronological progression".
• Ascended to Carnivorism: In the Rite of Bound sequence, Plateosaurus and Kannemeyeria (both herbivorous) are portrayed eating clams. Becomes a example of Accidentally Correct Writing in the case of the plateosaurs, which are now believed to have been partially omnivorous.
• Astronomic Zoom: The Rite of Spring goes from floating balls of gas in outer infinite all the way downwardly to single-jail cell organisms.
• Badass Arm-Fold: Chernabog's awakening. Seriously, that'due south what criminals come across when Batman emerges from the shadows.
• Battle in the Rain: The fight between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus in The Rite of Bound.
• Bat Out of Hell: Chernabog, though information technology may take some time for y'all to notice. He'due south non just your average, bat-winged demon. His facial structure besides is reminiscent of that of a bat, notably his rima oris.
• Belly Bomb Burdensome: In the last motility of the "Trip the light fantastic of the Hours" section, a hippo leaps into the arms of her alligator lover, only to squash him because she'southward more than than he can handle. Word of God has it that the unabridged "Dance of the Hours" section is meant to suggest a operation by an apprentice ballet company, i.e. information technology might have funny moments due to the dancers' express skill, but isn't being played for laughs.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Hyacinth Hippo, whom Ben Ali Gator falls for almost instantly. The other hippo ballerinas count also, considering how eager the gators are to dance with them.
• Birds of a Feather: The centaurs and centaurettes in the Pastoral Symphony sequence all pair up with a partner of the aforementioned color.
• Anemic Carnage: In the Rite of Spring sequence, dinosaurs fight and impale each other with their teeth and spiked tails, just not a single driblet of blood is apparent. Admittedly, the T-Rex seems to impale the Stegosaurus past twisting and breaking its cervix (Truth in Goggle box for many large carnivores fifty-fifty today), just there nonetheless should have been some claret.
• Bowdlerize:
  • All of the home video releases censor the Pastoral Symphony sequence to remove the presence of Sunflower, who is depicted every bit a very stereotypical African American (rat tail hairs, subservient to another centaur, and being stylized every bit a donkey instead of a centaurette). The home video releases worked effectually her by digitally zooming in on the footage of the centaurettes she was about, and slightly rearranging one scene to cover up that they excised a brief scene with her that was impossible to pan away from. For other shots where it was both absolutely impossible to pan abroad from her and too crucial to remove, they digitally edited her out altogether, resulting in oddities like a crimson carpet that she pushed at present magically rolling out on its own. The only fashion the original footage can be seen now is by finding bootlegs of very old Tv set recordings of Fantasia.
  • Whereas the original Fantasia segment has Yen Sid swatting Mickey with the broom after his trivial stunt, at least one of the storybook adaptations avoids this. The sorcerer merely tells Mickey not to commencement what he can't end.
  • Likewise, the animators actually storyboarded the scene where Mickey chops the broom to pieces with an axe. In the final film, it happens off-screen and the viewer only sees it via a Shadow Discretion Shot.
• Only Not Too Black: Averted with the two zebra centaurettes, who, unlike Sunflower, are plain meant to exist sexy but are only every bit dark-skinned and have authentic African features.

• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The female person centaurs are paler shades of their male mates' colors.
• Conspicuously Light Patch: Nicely averted in Rite of Spring, when chunks of stone that look like any other function of the background get loosened and carried away by lava.
• Crashing Dreams: Mickey dreams of waves crashing confronting a cliff, only to awake to the watery doom around him.
• Trip the light fantastic toe of Romance: With hippos and gators.
• Night Is Evil: In the Night on Bald Mount sequence, everything connected with Evil and Death is portrayed by the darkness, fires of Hell etc etc. during a dark and gloomy night.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Pegasus father from "Pastoral Symphony" is blackness in color, with a gothic and almost sinister appearance. He is, notwithstanding, kind and caring.
• Deliberately Monochrome: Wizard's Amateur goes to black-and-white when Mickey chops up the broom, then gades back into color when the splinters come back to life as new brooms.
• Deranged Animation: Night on Bald Mountain gets very trippy with the evil spirits summoned by Chernabog zooming through the screen.
• Canis familiaris Walks You: During the tempest in the "Pastoral Symphony" sequence, Dionysus/Bacchus is trying to elevate his unicorn/ass, Jackus, toward shelter, just Jackus is resisting. I flash of lightning later, Jackus is the one dragging Dionysus/Bacchus along behind him.
• Door-Closes Ending: The "Dance of the Hours" segment ends with the palace doors slamming so hard they're knocked off their hinges.
• Double Take: An elephant does 1 when she realizes that the bubble she simply blew has a goldfish in it.
• Downer Ending: The Rite of Leap. If information technology hadn't been for the Executive Meddling, Walt Disney would take kept the happier catastrophe where a band of early humans get-go a bonfire and dance in celebration of their discovery.
• Everything'due south Better with Dinosaurs: Anatomically and chronologically inaccurate dinosaurs (though non for the time), but dinosaurs nonetheless.
• Expy: In "Dance Of The Hours", all the main dancers are expys for the main characters from the opera La Gioconda.
• Family unit-Unfriendly Death: "Rite of Spring" shows the extinction of the dinosaurs (or rather how they believed information technology went at the time) in all of its savage reality. But they are realistic-looking, non-anthropomorphic ones, so it'southward okay.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: "Rite of Spring" features an extremely brutal fight between a Tyrannosaurus and a Stegosaurus, ending with the Tyrannosaurus killing and eating the Stegosaurus.
• Fan Disservice: Chernabog'southward nude female minions with their faces twisted in desperation.
• Fatal Forced March: The fate of the dinosaurs at the finish of "The Rite Of Spring," doomed to die while searching for water in an endless desert.
• Fauns and Satyrs: "Pastoral Symphony" features a few cutesy satyrs, playing pan flute music while frolicking around.
• Finger Snap Lighter: Chernabog creates flames in his paw, which he and then twists up into demons.
• Forging Scene: In the "Pastoral Symphony" sequence, Vulcan/Hephaestus forges thunderbolts for Jupiter/Zeus to hurl at Bacchus/Dionysus.
• For the Evulz:
  • Everything Chernabog does is purely to take fun.
  • Zeus and Vulcan breaking up the commemoration in "Pastoral Symphony" for no apparent reason likewise counts.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: As is typical for Disney, the Pastoral is a huge disfavor. They make no attempt to hide intoxication, or the fact that Dionysus/Bacchus and the unicorn he is riding are drunk.
• Ghastly Ghost: The "Dark on Bald Mountain" segment plays this trope completely straight. You take hordes of spirits that ride skeleton steeds and some flight shrouds with glowing eyes on the within.
• Ghibli Hills: The Pastoral Symphony is fix among verdant hills and gentle streams.
• Gone Backside the Bend: During the "Trip the light fantastic of the Hours" segment. Ben Ali Gator is chasing Hyacinth Hippo, who hides behind a column that is far too narrow for her to hibernate behind. Ben runs around the column a couple of times but can't seem to find her, until she comes from behind and tramples him.
• Adept Hurts Evil: The mountainous devil Chernabog and his army of spirits are driven abroad by the calorie-free of "the sacred" at the first of the Ave Maria section.
• Grapes of Luxury: A couple of centaurs enact this trope during the Pastoral Symphony scene while being fanned by cherubs. Later, during Dance of the Hours, the ostriches fight over a bunch of grapes before one of the hippos eventually gets it.
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: The Elephant scene in "Trip the light fantastic of the Hours" features them floating in bubbling - staying afloat until the bubble pops.
• Hellish Horse: In Night on Bald Mountain sequence some of the skeleton knights raised by Chernabog ride some of these. One of them looks an atrocious lot like the Horned Male monarch! Funny enough...in that location was some recycled footage from Fantasia in The Black Cauldron.
• How the Mighty Accept Fallen: Twice near the end of Rite of Spring, as the Tyrannosaurus rex is walking with the other dinosaurs tired and dehydrated then roars weakly and collapses down a sand dune, and then a minute or so afterwards as the photographic camera pans across the dinosaur skeletons. When information technology come to the skeleton of the T. Rex, information technology suddenly zooms in on information technology as the music descends mockingly. Not even the once terrifying predator could escape decease.
• Hot as Hell: A rather literal example in Night on Baldheaded Mount. Chernabog holds a flame in his mitt, and turns it into three naked women, fabricated of fire, who proceed to dance. It then gets immediately subverted horrifyingly as Chernabog turns these women into increasingly horrific forms including a hog, a goat, a wolf, a group of pale aquamarine imps with xanthous eyes and blue tinted very male demons with horned heads with beaked mouths.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: The hippos and the alligators in Dance of the Hours.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Daughter: The male and female centaurs in the Pastoral Symphony.
• Interruption: The original roadshow version included ane. Later versions re-edited the footage of the orchestra leaving for suspension and so returning for the opening and endmost of the film. The (NTSC) DVD and, later, Blu-Ray versions restored the original intermission footage.
• Jerkass Gods:
  • Zeus, in the Pastoral Symphony, disrupts Bacchus' party with a storm and deliberately threw lightning bolts at them. It'due south fifty-fifty worse if one goes past the myths, in which Bacchus is Zeus' son.
  • Chernabog incinerates or crushes his demonic minions simply for a moment's amusement.
• Knight of Cerebus: While more than antagonists than outright villains, the advent (and build-up) of Vulcan and Zeus in the Pastoral Symphony changes the tone from whimsical to dramatic. Justified, as their sequence accompanies the fourth move of the Symphony which depicts a violent thunderstorm.
• Large Ham: Chernabog is a rare non-speaking example, with an overly dramatic torso linguistic communication.
• Calorie-free Is Good: Ave Maria, being a contrast to the Night on Bald Mount sequence, has this every bit i of its main themes. Sunlight and glowing candles are depicted as existence associated with Sky and all things holy.
• Limited Blitheness: The Ave Maria sequence has barely any animation at all—well-nigh of the movement is washed by the camera.
• Long Take: Ave Maria ends with a 160-second 1.
  • This is a multiplane camera shot, and concluded upwards having to be reshot twice; on the commencement take the camera was inadvertently fitted with a wide-angle lens, causing unwanted peripheral details to be visible; on the second, an LA earth tremor shook the planes out of alignment. Third time was the charm.
• Mama Bear: The mother Pegasus flies out in the middle of a storm in gild to rescue one of her children.
• Mushroom Man: The dancing mushrooms in the Nutcracker'southward Chinese Dance segment, whose caps resemble Asian rice hats.
• Never Trust a Trailer: Promotional art for Fantasia oftentimes seems to imply that Mickey as the Magician's Apprentice faces off with Chernabog. The ii appear in different segments and practise not collaborate. Critics in 1940 actually complained nigh this.
• Nipple and Dimed: The original actually did this in a few scenes, with some very brief flashes of naked breasts that they could non become away with today. Specifically, Chernabog's rather ugly harpy minions flash their breasts at the audience a few times. Left uncut on all re-releases and on Disney+.
• Off-Model: The animators never seemed to agree on the number and colors of the many baby unicorns and pegasi in the Pastoral Symphony segment; at one point virtually the end of the first movement, equally the pegasus foals fly down to a lake, several of them enter the water i color and emerge a dissimilar color, begging the question of just what is in the water.
• One-Discussion Title: Fantasia.
• Opposites Attract: The Pegasus mother and begetter. The father'due south coloration makes him await very gothic, almost sinister while his wife's coloration makes her look angelic.
• Orwellian Retcon: Sunflower, the little black centaur servant, has been cutting from modern releases due to being a racist caricature. Even the Disney+ edit of the movie, which opens with a content alert well-nigh Values Racket, doesn't show Sunflower.
• Our Centaurs Are Different: In the Pastoral Symphony scene, in that location are both female person and male person centaurs with rather proficient-looking, non-abominable human being halves. A duo of African centaurs with zebra-similar horse parts also evidence upward. The original release as well featured a small black centaur servant, but she was cutting from later releases due to Values Dissonance.
• Our Gargoyles Stone: Chernabog. Just look at him and endeavour to tell u.s. he wouldn't blend in on a church roof.
• Painting the Frost on Windows: The fairies in the Nutcracker Suite segment are shown changing leaf colors and putting rime frost on plants and water surfaces to change the seasons.
• Pale Females, Night Males: In "Pastoral Symphony", the Pegasus family unit has a black male parent and a white female parent. The male centaurs ordinarily have somewhat darker tones than the females, also.
• Pegasus: Several announced in "Pastoral Symphony".
• Punny Name:
  • Bacchus/Dionysus' unicorn/donkey in the "Pastoral Symphony" sequence is named Jackus (i.e., jackass).
  • The lead ostrich in the "Dance of the Hours" sequence is named Mademoiselle Upanova (upwards and over).
• Random Events Plot: The Nutcracker Suite. Fairies creating morn dew ("Trip the light fantastic of the Carbohydrate Plum Fairy"), dancing mushrooms ("Chinese Trip the light fantastic"), blossoms on a flowing river ("Trip the light fantastic toe of the Reed Flutes"), long-tailed goldfish ("Arabian Dance"), dancing thistles ("Russian Trip the light fantastic"), and fairies ushering in the changing colours of autumn and the first frosts and snow of wintertime ("Waltz of the Flowers")... information technology'due south but one thing later another.
• Red Eyes, Take Alert:
  • The T-Rex in Rite of Spring, with good reason - it is the top predator in the age of dinosaurs, killing a Stegosaurus on-screen.
  • Averted with the father Pegasus, notwithstanding, whose scarlet optics bely a protective personality.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: "Trip the light fantastic of the Hours" plays with this. The alligators are used to represent Dark, and they frequently seem to exist interim antagonistically, but at the same time, the brusk makes it articulate that information technology'south all a show and the other animals aren't really in danger.
• Roadshow Theatrical Release: The but Disney film to receive such a treatment. The DVD and Blu-Ray releases were a recreation of the original roadshow version.
• Satanic Archetype: Night On Bald Mountain was originally introduced as starring Satan himself when Fantasia first premiered. His name was afterwards changed to Chernabog (an obscure Slavic Pagan deity) in what was a reverse Jesus Taboo, only the alter was non pulled out of sparse air. (See Shown Their Work.)
• Sensory Abuse: Rite of Spring, truthful to its original composition, features many sudden loud noises and beats that can be quite jarring to audiences not in the know about it.
• Shown Their Work:
  • At the fourth dimension Fantasia was made, the only well-known version of Night on Bald Mountain was the one streamlined and rearranged (the All Music Guide says "bowdlerized") by Rimsky-Korsakov. Notwithstanding, information technology was the third version. The first version by Mussorgsky ("St. John's Eve at the Bald Mountain") was about a witches' sabbath on St. John's Eve ^note June 23rd in the Western Calendar, July 6th in the Orthodox Calendar, and, similar the Eve of All Saints (Hallowe'en) and the Eve of St. Walburga (Walpurgisnacht), a traditional time for the grand Sabbat of the witches, mentioned Satan explicitly and was rejected by the organizer of the festival for which it was written. The 2nd and most obscure version of the music was heavily reworked, called "Dream of the Young Peasant Lad" and intended to be part of an opera which he never finished. According to the All Music Guide, "equally a boy dreams on a hill, he is threatened by inhuman voices and finds himself mocked in the realm of shadows. The voices warn of the Devil and the "Black God" Chernobog; as the shadows fade, both announced. Chernobog is glorified, a Blackness Mass is sung, and a Witches' Sabbath breaks out. As a church bong intones, Chernobog disappears and the demons writhe in agony. A church choir sings, the demons fade abroad, awakening the male child." Sound familiar?
  • For the Trip the light fantastic of the Hours sequence, the animators studied hours and hours of ballet footage to be sure to create an accurate parody.
• Solid Clouds: The cupids from the "Pastoral Symphony" segment sleep on clouds.
• Spiritual Successor: To the Silly Symphonies shorts, which had concluded the year before. Like them, it sets symphonic music to animated visuals, some of which are indeed very dizzy.
• Stock Dinosaurs: Somewhat surprisingly averted in Rite of Spring. Yes, the sequence gives u.s. the standard plesiosaurs, Pteranodon, Dimetrodon, sauropods, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, hadrosaurs, and an anatomically inaccurate T. rex, only nosotros also see the much less commonly portrayed mosasaurs, Kritosaurus, Plateosaurus, Kannemeyeria, and Ceratosaurus.
• Swing Depression, Sweet Harriet: One centaurette is pushed on a swing by her mate.
• That Russian Squat Dance: Performed past thistles.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Hyacinth Hippo is comically obese whereas her partner Ben Ali Gator is very slim, brusque, and flexible. He tin't even lift her over his caput while they're dancing without slap-up difficulty.
• That'due south No Moon!: Okay, Night On Bald Mountain needed a demon god, as they were basing the scene from an unfinished opera, but why not make him so big, he'southward literally the elevation of the mountain?
• Total Eclipse of the Plot: The Rite of Spring section includes a total eclipse happening at the end. When it nears totality, a huge earthquake happens with mountains forming and tsunamis wreaking havoc on the desolate state, conciding with the music. By the time it reaches totality, the eclipsed dominicus sets over the barren Earth, so who knows how long the eclipse would have lasted. Likely Truth in Television, as the moon was closer to Earth 66 1000000 years ago.
• Two Girls to a Team: Due to sexist hiring practices of the time, there are only two women in the orchestra, both playing the harp.
• Unicorn: Some niggling technicolour ones are amongst the first creatures nosotros see in the Pastoral. When Bacchus shows up afterward, he's riding on a unicorn donkey.
• Villain Protagonist: Chernabog is the central graphic symbol of the "Night on Baldheaded Mountain" short.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Chernabog, although the remainder is covered by the mount peak.
• Weakened past the Calorie-free: Chernabog is driven to submission by daybreak.
• When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Chernabog and his minions vanish when the churchbell rings.
• Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: The "Pastoral Symphony" sequence features a pair of African centaurs whose equine half is that of a zebra.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which appears in both films, provides examples of

• Absurdly Dedicated Worker: Mickey, as the Apprentice, sets a magic broom to the job of fetching water from a well and pouring information technology into a cauldron, and then goes to sleep and wakes to the room flooded with water since he never told the broom to stop. Then he finds he tin't cease information technology and when he tries chopping the broom to bits, every bit becomes a new broom, all "programmed" to fetch h2o and throw it into the cauldron. It takes the return of the Wizard himself to finish the brooms (and salve the apprentice from drowning).
• Adaptational Alternate Catastrophe: While the story is adapted fairly faithfully, Yen Sid's anger at his amateur is not in the original Goethe poem.
• Adaptation Expansion: A comic accommodation added in an opening in which Mickey, wanting to be a sorcerer like Yen Sid (who in the picture show, has no onscreen name), comes to his castle.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: All considering Mickey doesn't know the spell to requite the enchanted broom an off switch.
• Breathing Inanimate Object: Mickey enchants some brooms to help him out with his chores. It doesn't go according to plan.
• Asteroids Monster: Unfortunately for Mickey, splitting blithe brooms to pieces is not a good idea.
• Dress Make the Legend: Mickey'due south Sorcerer appearance is almost as famous as him wearing his red shorts and oversized xanthous shoes!
• Wearing apparel Make the Superman: The iconic hat gives Mickey magic powers, or at least amplifies his ain puny ones.
• Crashing Dreams: In the middle of the segment, Mickey falls asleep and dreams he's a powerful wizard able to command the heavens and the tides. As the tides are crashing around him, he falls out of his chair and wakes up to run across that the room is alluvion with too much h2o.
• Fascinating Countenance: Yen Sid does this to Mickey. This was actually based on something Walt often did.

• Gone Horribly Right: Mickey enchants a broom to do his chore of filling the cauldron with h2o for him. Information technology works besides well, and the enchanted broom becomes an Absurdly Dedicated Worker (meet above).
• Hat of Power: The sorcerer's wizard lid that Mickey borrows.
• Hope Spot: Not knowing how to stop the out of command broom magically, Mickey merely grabs a nearby axe and forcefully chops upwards the broom into hundreds of pieces. Merely when he thinks his troubles are over, however, each broom piece starts to twitch, and then the pieces reconstitute themselves into hundreds of new brooms.
• Inept Mage: Mickey. As explained in the opening, he knew enough nigh magic to animate the broom and have information technology fetch water... but not enough to make information technology finish.
• Monochrome to Color: All color disappears afterward Mickey hacks the living broom to $.25, with the color gradually reappearing when the bits plow into new brooms.
• Nice Chapeau: The wizard's hat.
• Nice Job Breaking Information technology, Hero: Literally, as Mickey tries to destroy the h2o-bucket-carrying broom with an axe, only for each splintered piece of wood to grow into another full-sized h2o-saucepan-conveying broom.
• Oh, Crap!: The look on Mickey'southward face up when he stops in the middle of walking away, and realizes that the broom he just chopped upward into hundreds of pieces reconstituted into hundreds of brooms.
• "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Mickey does information technology when handing back the sorcerer hat to his primary.
• Parting the Sea: In the climax of "Magician'due south Apprentice", when Mickey is in danger of drowning due to the excess water the brooms go on fetching, the sorcerer arrives and waves his hands to part the flood waters, until the whole castle is dry.
• Power Glows: Both Yen Sid and his Lid of Power.
• Ability Incontinence: Mickey finds information technology quite easy to breathing his master's broom and take information technology fetch water for him, but he isn't experienced enough in magic to know how to make the broom stop fetching water, and when he tries to chop the broom into pieces, all that does is create more than brooms with more buckets, and poor Mickey soon finds himself in manner over his head— literally, every bit the room starts to flood.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: Provides the page's prototype. Both Mickey and Yen Sid habiliment classic wizard robe. Yen Sid's lid is Lid of Power (run across higher up) which Mickey wore that caused chaos.
• Sdrawkcab Proper noun: The sorcerer is officially named Yen Sid. Think near information technology.
• Shadow Discretion Shot: Mickey'southward chopping upwardly the broomstick is shown only every bit a shadow on a wall.

• Stock Sound Effects: Mickey'southward last line when meeting Stokowski ("Well, and so long! I'll be seeing ya!") is taken from Brave Petty Tailor. The original line in the short ended, "I hope."
• Symbol Motif Clothing: The magician's chapeau is adorned with star and moon symbols.

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