I’m far more intrigued by all the other segments. Things pick up when Bacchus shows up drunk off (and on) his ass, but not much. But the Centaurettes with all their preening are pretty annoying. Everything else in the film has elements of darkness, even Mickey’s part. It’s a bit too deliberately cute for my tastes, especially with the My Pretty Unicorn Babies. But you want to get right to the poleaxing! Okay, I don’t really love the rendering of Beethoven’s The Pastoral Symphony. I was all ready to heap praise on my favorite bits. My least favorite? Wow, you’re not wasting any time here. Now, once these films have been released, they stay released, even if we will continue to get expanded and remastered versions. That’s a thing of the past, however, thanks to the digital revolution. Your comment about Disney holding back its films for maximum returns is interesting because I remember being frustrated as a kid that I didn’t have access to some the Disney classics. And, indeed, it was a feast for the senses. I was trying to replicate that old Fantasound power of 1940. Steve Leftridge: Yes, I’ve seen it a few times, but never like this time, for I ran the Blu-ray on the flatscreen and blasted the music through surround sound. Had you seen Fantasia before, Steve? And what was your favorite bit? In other places, we are shown abstract visuals, scientific history, mythical tales, and the triumph of love over incarnations of evil (though admittedly, the evil beings seem to be having more fun). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is the only sequence that acts like a typical cartoon of its time. I wasn’t prepared for just how trippy some of it was, nor was I aware of just how beautiful some it could be. I knew it was going to be a trip, as animators in 1940 sequencing images and stories to classical music was a new idea at the time. We lucked out, coming up with this film at a time when it’s actually streaming on Netflix. Disney knows how to make money, by making films scarce at times and then re-releasing them, and not having them in general distribution on TV. Certainly this was my first time viewing it, save for snippets of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence. Steve Pick: Fantasia is one of those films that everybody knows about, but not everybody has seen.
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