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Post by billhammond on Jul 26, 2023 19:00:51 GMT -5
Did you see it as a kid, on TV or in a theater? Did it have any lasting effect on you?
It was pretty huge for me, and might be a large part of why the local classical station, KSJN, is on in my household almost around the clock. (I draw the line at "Pipe Dreams" early on Sunday mornings, as I really dislike most pipe organ music.)
To this day, any of the pieces in that film, which accompanied wonderful animation, provoke vivid memories when I hear them.
A real breakthrough movie.
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Post by amanajoe on Jul 26, 2023 19:05:45 GMT -5
I remember seeing it at the Woodfield theater (huge screen, seating for 1000 or so) when they re-released it.
Tried to watch it again about 15 years ago and was so bored, couldn’t make it past the mid point. Guess I’ve soured in my old grumpy age.
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Post by howard lee on Jul 26, 2023 19:15:15 GMT -5
The "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence flipped me out. You might say I was a tad superstitious as a child, and
after hearing tales from Auschwitz from age 6, quite impressionable. Lost a lot of sleep wondering what was beneath
the bed late at night.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 26, 2023 19:17:40 GMT -5
I watched Fantasia in Manhattan RKO Radio with rockettes. circa early 1950s
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Post by dradtke on Jul 26, 2023 19:20:02 GMT -5
Never saw it as a kid, except for the Sorcerer's Apprentice part. When I finally saw the entire thing as an adult, some of it is very impressive, while other bits are boring and/or silly.
The music is well done, but some of the animators ran out of ideas.
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Post by epaul on Jul 26, 2023 19:24:32 GMT -5
I made good use of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 when subbing elementary music. I like them both a lot. If North Dakota ever gets around to legalizing pot, I will probably give them another go.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 26, 2023 19:27:11 GMT -5
Never saw it as a kid, except for the Sorcerer's Apprentice part. When I finally saw the entire thing as an adult, some of it is very impressive, while other bits are boring and/or silly. The music is well done, but some of the animators ran out of ideas. Wiki says the Mickey part was a stand-alone project that went way over profitability, which led to the more ambitious movie idea. Ya gotta love hippos in tutus, though. |
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Post by Dub on Jul 26, 2023 20:02:57 GMT -5
Did you see it as a kid, on TV or in a theater? Did it have any lasting effect on you? It was pretty huge for me, and might be a large part of why the local classical station, KSJN, is on in my household almost around the clock. (I draw the line at "Pipe Dreams" early on Sunday mornings, as I really dislike most pipe organ music.) To this day, any of the pieces in that film, which accompanied wonderful animation, provoke vivid memories when I hear them. A real breakthrough movie. Even at my advanced age, I didn’t see it as a kid. It came out two years prior to my birth. My intro was probably in the 1950s watching the Sunday night Disney program. The older I get the more remarkable it seems. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 26, 2023 20:34:04 GMT -5
Like Mark, I saw it in bits and pieces on TV, but I did get to see it whole* in grad school. That viewing confirmed my impression of the fantastic and scary parts, and left me with a new one: that the Dance of the Hours segment, with prancing hippos and ostriches, probably came close to the way Walt really thought of ballet, and that the saccharine (and pretty dull) Pastoral segment was how he thought highbrow stuff ought to be treated. * Though even then it must have been bowdlerized, since I don't recall the black maid-centaurette. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPFibRadto |
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2023 20:57:19 GMT -5
I'm more a bugs/barber of seville classically influenced fella. Loved the bits of fantasia I saw. I think I did finally see all of it.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jul 26, 2023 21:53:30 GMT -5
Fantasia is a boring, way over rated film with just a few good bits.
Mike
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Post by jdd2 on Jul 26, 2023 22:22:47 GMT -5
I have it on both VHS and DVD. Actually two copies on DVD--one with just the movie, the other is a double disc, movie plus bonus material.
We have the whole set of disney films, snow white thru about hunchback and lion king 1-1/2. Many as above, both VHS and DVD.
Also a double DVD of silly symphonies.
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Post by RickW on Jul 26, 2023 22:24:37 GMT -5
Didn’t see it until I was an adult, and while I admired the attempt, it just didn’t register for me.
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Post by drlj on Jul 27, 2023 5:49:33 GMT -5
It made me afraid of brooms.
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Post by Marty on Jul 27, 2023 11:00:09 GMT -5
I think we saw it at a Drive In but it may have been on TV. It does has some serious PC problems that could be fixed without really changing the storyline.
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Post by John B on Jul 27, 2023 12:03:57 GMT -5
Did it hit the theatres on the 50th anniversary? I might have seen it on the big screen then. I have seen it in our little basement theatre within the last 9 years (because that's how long we've lived here). I liked the dinosaur section, as our understanding of what might have happened during the "great extinction event" has changed since the scientists in charge of Fantasia directed that segment.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 27, 2023 18:57:24 GMT -5
Movies weren't a thing when I was a kid. It's just something the family didn't do. The first and only time I saw the movie was in college and thanks to mind-altering substances and being told what to look for I should have come out with something, but honestly all I remember is the dancing hippos in tutus.
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