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Bracknell Film Society Selection

DECEMBER 2009

SuprisingIy, a premier for Bracknell Film Society.

FANTASIA

To book a ticket for forthcoming screenings please contact the SHP Box Office on 01344 484123 or click the logo below to book via the SHP website.
Monday 7- Tuesday 8 DECEMBER 7.45pm
Rating

AWARDS

1941
A Special Academy Award to
Walt Disney, William E. Garity and J.N.A. Hawkins
For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia (certificate)

 
1941
A Special Academy Award
to
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).

MORE PRESENTATIONS

In 1990, Fantasia was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by
the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Fantasia has been twice recognized by the American Film Institute:
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies #58
2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 #5 animated film

Dir. James Algar/Samual Armstrong, US, 1940, 125 minutes

Mickey Mouse, Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor

Work on the project began in 1938. Following the successful release of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' the previous year Walt Disney was encouraged to produce another full length animated feature. This ambitious ground breaking film is presented in eight parts, each an animation inspired by a piece of classical music and has become among the most popular of Walt Disney's classics. As work began on The Sorcerer's Apprentice in 1938 Disney happened to meet famed conductor Leopold Stokowski at Chasen's, a noted Hollywood restaurant. Stokowski offered to serve as conductor for The Sorcerer's Apprentice at no charge, and assembled over one hundred professional musicians in Los Angeles to record the score for the nine-minute cartoon. The conductor and orchestra do appear in the movie, not animated. The length of this segment broke with tradition, exceeding the average conventional cartoon by two minutes. The project soon grew into the full length feature familiar to future audiences.

Showing in its restored, uncut version, Fantasia still offers a rich variety of animation styles and techniques. A pre-Christmas treat.

Footnote.

Some equipment used in the advanced sound technology was manufactured by two brilliant engineers
- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

For a comprehensive article on 'Fantasia' click the Wikipedia link below.