Released: November 13, 1940 Re-released: 1946, 1956, 1963, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1985, October 5, 1990 (50th anniversary) Released to Video: November 1, 1991 - VHS 1132 (Masterpiece Collection) - dropped 1993;
Deluxe Edition - dropped 1993 Released to DVD: November 14, 2000 - DVD 18268 (Special 60th Anniversary Edition) - dropped January 31, 2004
Budget: $2.28m Rentals : $41.66m (USA)
Produced by: Walt Disney Productions Length: 120 mins
SEGMENTS: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", "The Rite of Spring", "Dance of the Hours", "Night on Bald Mountain", "Ave Maria", "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor", "The Nutcracker Suite", "The Pastoral Symphony"
NOTE: The 1982 re-release featured an entirely re-recorded soundtrack conducted by Irwin Kostal, the first-ever digitally recorded soundtrack for a motion picture. Deems Taylor's narration was replaced in this version by Hugh Douglas. NOTE: Except for a minor visual alteration, the original 1940 version (with Leopold Stokowski's FantaSound recordings) was restored for its 50th Anniversary re-release in 1990. This is the only version of the film that has been available on video.
Directed by: James Algar ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), Samuel Armstrong ("Toccata & Fugue in D Minor", "The Nutcracker Sutie"), Ford Beebe ("The Pastoral Symphony"), Norman Ferguson ("Dance of the Hours"), Jim Handley ("The Pastoral Symphony"), T. Hee ("Dance of the Hours"), Wilfred Jackson ("Night on Bald Mountain"), Hamilton Luske ("The Pastoral Symphony"), Bill Roberts ("The Rite of Spring"), Ben Sharpsteen Written by: Joe Grant & Dick Huemer ("orchestra sequences"), Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer, Phil Dike ("Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"), Sylvia Moberly-Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie, & Graham Heid ("The Nutcracker Suite"), Perce Pearce &Carl Fallberg ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner, & John Fraser McLeish ("The Rite of Spring") Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, & Bill Peet ("The Pastoral Symphony"), Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann, & Phil Dike ("Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach (from "Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565", orchestrated by Stokowski), Paul Dukas (from "L'apprenti sorcier"), Rachel Field (special lyrics "Ave Maria"), Modest Moussorgsky (from "A Night on Bald Mountain"), Amilcare Ponchielli (from "La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours"), Franz Schubert (from "Ave Maria"), Igor Stravinsky (from "The Rite of Spring"), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from "Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a"), Ludwig Van Beethoven (from "6th symphony in F Op.68 'Pastorale'") Film Editing by: John Carnochan (1990 restoration) Produced by: Walt Disney
AWARDS: 1942 - Academy Awards - won Honorary Award - Walt Disney, William E. Garity,
J.N.A. Hawkins, Leopold Stokowski (and his associates) - For their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form (certificate).
1990 - Added to the National Film Registry
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