Fantasia (movie)

Fantasia
Directed by	Ben Sharpsteen Bill Roberts David Hand Ford Beebe Hamilton Luske James Algar Jim Handley Norm Ferguson Paul Satterfield T. Hee Wilfred Jackson
Screenplay by	Dick Huemer Joe Grant
Story by	Albert Heath Arthur Heinemann Bianca Majolie Bill Peet Campbell Grant Carl Fallberg Elmer Plummer Erdman Penner George Stallings Graham Heid John McLeish Joseph Sabo Norman Wright Lee Blair Leo Thiele Otto Englander Perce Pearce Phil Dike Robert Sterner Sylvia Moberly-Holland Webb Smith William Martin
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Deems Taylor Leopold Stokowski The Philadelphia Orchestra Walt Disney (voice)
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date	November 13, 1940
Running time	124 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$2,280,000 (est.)
Box office	$76,408,097

Fantasia is the third animated movie produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was first released on November 13, 1940. It was originally released by itself instead of RKO Pictures, which was the distributor of Disney from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, until Peter Pan. Along with Pinocchio, it was one of the first ever Disney animated movies released in the same year as each other. Fantasia was the first Disney animated movie to have a live-action cast into the mix of animation. In this case, it features Deems Taylor, Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

As Disney's first animated anthology movie, Fantasia contains eight classical music pieces. One of them is from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. It tells the story of life on Earth until the extinction of the dinosaurs. Another famous work that appears in the movie is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ. The most famous classical music piece in this film is Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice starring Mickey Mouse from the animated cartoons in his movie debut. This is Mickey Mouse's most famous role. After inflation, Fantasia is the fourth most successful animated movie that anyone has made yet.

A sequel to this movie, Fantasia 2000, was released in 2000.