The visualization of music on film is an old impulse. During the 1930s, besides cartoons with classical music soundtracks, a number of short films -- like one called Optical Poe ­--contained ...

Featuring visuals by Hollywood’s finest animators and music by some of the nation’s best musicians, “Fantasia” still delights ...

Fantasia. Disney’s third animated feature is more than 70 years old now, and it remains one of the most unique items in the studio’s catalog. It features just eight shorts set to classical ...

If you have not watched Disney’s “Fantasia,” it’s about time you do. This two-hour film brings alive 15 of classical music’s most well-known scores with curious animation. Disney animators and British ...

Mickey Mouse, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Walt Disney’s 1940 animated feature Fantasia, famously splashed around in a spectacular of light and color, using what little magic he knew to marry visuals ...

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 ...

Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this ...

Despite early mainstream hits such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney chose to pursue his avant garde sensibilities when he selected Fantasia as the third full length ...