Playing in 'Toon:
Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940)
and the Imagineering of
Classical Music
By Mark Clague
Hailed as a "new kind of art form,"
Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940) harnessed recent developments in recording
(multichannel editing and stereophonic surround playback) and photography
(the multiplane camera and Technicolor process) to bring "a wider
understanding of good music to the general public." Rather than threaten
the nature of art, mechanical reproduction was to give the best to the
rest, taking the music of one of America's finest ensembles, the Philadelphia
Orchestra, under one of its best conductors, Leopold Stokowski, to every
city and town.
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