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Last update: Wednesday 07th of January 2009 Fantasia
Fantasia is a 1940 motion picture produced by Walt Disney. The third film in the Disney animated features canon, it is an experiment in animation and music. The soundtrack of the film consists of eight pieces of classical music, seven of which were recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. A Los Angeles studio orchestra provided the music for the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment. Originally, the Philadelphia Orchestra was slated to be filmed in the introduction and interstitial segments, but ultimately was not engaged due to union and budgetary considerations. Animated artwork of varying degrees of abstraction or literalism is used to illustrate or accompany the concert in various ways. The film also includes live-action segments featuring Stokowski, the orchestra, and American composer and music critic Deems Taylor, who serves as the host for the film. Besides its avant-garde qualities, Fantasia was notable for being the first major film released in stereophonic sound, using a process dubbed "Fantasound". Fantasia was first released November 13, 1940 in the United States, and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Walt Disney in financial straits. Critical reception was mixed, but most critics praised the film for its animation, and soundtrack—however, after a myriad of re-releases in theatres, most notably in the 1969, the film managed to gain attention from audiences, and received large profits receipts and box offices. After attaining popularity, the film was released in 1982, with a newly recorded digital soundtrack, conducted not by Stokowski, but by Irwin Kostal. The public was less than enthusiastic about hearing the soundtrack performed by another conductor and orchestra, and by 1990, this edition was scrapped in favor of a full restoration of the original 1940 soundtrack. Fantasia was initially released by Walt Disney Productions (without then-distributor RKO Radio Pictures) as a two-hours-plus roadshow film with booked engagements, Fantasia was eventually picked up by RKO for release in 1941 and edited drastically in 1942, being left with only 81 minutes of running time. Future re-releases restored various amounts of the deleted footage, with the most common version being the 1946 re-release edit, which ran two hours. The original version of Fantasia was never released again after 1941, and although some of the original audio elements no longer exist, a 2000 DVD release version attempted to restore as much of the original version of the film as possible. The film and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) are the only animated films and the only Disney films to be listed on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. The film was also deemed "culturally, and historically" significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Fantasia Mp3 DownloadsDownload audio files (mp3 and wma) with Fantasia Songs using these download websites. The list will be updated perciodically.Fantasia RingtonesYou can get any Fantasia ringtone you like (realtone, polyphonic, mono tone, mp3 ringtone) using the next service:
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I saw two movies today: “Woman Transformation”, which was a piece of shit, but an interesting one. It certainly had a good premise. Three women begin suffering radical physical metamorphosis. One’s neck elongates, another begins to have her nails grow until they become talons, and yet another’s face turns into… ew. Now we’re fucking talking! I finally stumbled home dead tired at 7am. That’s what the festival experience is all about. No sleep, little food, good beer and awesome company. Isn’t that always the way it happens? Of the two movies I saw last night, I was 100% certain that I would have enjoyed Flight of the Living Dead more. I would even have bet money on it.
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