"Fantasia" — Disney's landmark animated film from 1940 — featured classical music masterpieces, including Stravinsky’s "Rite of Spring" and Bach’s "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor." So when Chris ...

Frost fairies light up the sky, signalling the arrival of winter. Leaves and tendrils come to life to perform a dance of the changing seasons. Swaying white flowers are illuminated by the gossamer ...

Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee Cast: Leopold Stokowski, Deems ...

It was dreamlike -- joyous, and darkly sinister in turns, and seven decades hasn’t tarnished its delights. A new DVD and Blu-ray Disc set celebrates the 70 th anniversary of Walt Disney’s 1940 ...

Now why didn't anyone think of this before? When the Hollywood Bowl began showing films with live music, "Fantasia" should have been priority No. 1, given the Bowl's long, enviably rich ...

Despite its legacy as one of Disney’s most enduring big-screen triumphs, “Fantasia” was as much an act of desperation and experimentation as one of high-minded art. The 1940 film, which interprets ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Disney wanted audiences to feel "as though they were standing on the podium". He was referring to the importance of sound quality in ...